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icon5.gif  Move forum to a new internet domain, how? [message #13699] Thu, 23 October 2003 13:36 Go to next message
masselinkies is currently offline  masselinkies   Netherlands
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Hi,

I have a full used FUD forum on one site.
Now I will move the site to a new server.
This server has another mysql server then before: I need to use another database name. The table names can be the same of course.

So I think next steps should do it:
1)export every single database table to a csv file.
2)import these files/tables in the new database on the new server.
3)install fudforum brand new on this new site and use the same table prefix as on the old site/database.
copy some data directories from old to new site, which one?? I changed the templates, avatars are used, pictures are uploaded, topics etc etc etc.

Regards, Hans
Re: Move forum to a new internet domain, how? [message #13701 is a reply to message #13699] Thu, 23 October 2003 14:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Here is how you should do it:

1) Make a mysqldump of the forum's database
2) Archive forum's data dir & web dir
3) Import mysqldump to new server
4) Decompress the archives made in step 2
5) Modify GLOBALS.php so that paths & mysql info corresponds to new settings.
6) Symlinks to GLOBALS.php are probably broken, so remove them and re-create them.
7) Login as admin (via admin control panel) and rebuild the theme.
Cool You are now done.


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Re: Move forum to a new internet domain, how? [message #13704 is a reply to message #13701] Thu, 23 October 2003 19:15 Go to previous messageGo to next message
masselinkies is currently offline  masselinkies   Netherlands
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Thanks!

One more question,
how to recreate the symlinks, I never did that, I just found the ln command. I am not familiair with the ln cmd.
Can you say which dirs have the symlink, so I don't need to browse every subdir.

Million thanks! / Hans
Re: Move forum to a new internet domain, how? [message #13705 is a reply to message #13704] Thu, 23 October 2003 19:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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If you have ssh or telnet access you can create a symlink by running:
symlink [original file] [new dest]
or your can do it via PHP
<?php
symlink
([new dest], [original file]);
?>


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icon5.gif  Re: Move forum to a new internet domain, how? [message #13988 is a reply to message #13699] Sun, 02 November 2003 21:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
masselinkies is currently offline  masselinkies   Netherlands
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My provider screwed things up I amfraid!
So now I want to import the SQL (mysqldump) into the newly installed forum latest stable release 2.5.2.
I see then some problems because the setup of the database has been changed (and what more).
So I wanted to find out on what release from FUDforum I was running at the old provider.
I did not find anything that can tell me which it was.

How can I find out?

furthermore I will post a new question for aninstallation issue, it does not fit in this issue.

Many thanks / Hans
Re: Move forum to a new internet domain, how? [message #13999 is a reply to message #13988] Mon, 03 November 2003 14:02 Go to previous message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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Look inside core.inc

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