| Move a forum to another site host [message #22798] |
Wed, 16 February 2005 17:31  |
WilliamBurns
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I have been up against capacity limits for months, which finally resulted in some costly corruption of forum data, and so I would like to move my entire website to another host system with more space, etc. The question is: Can I simply move the forum folders as is, preserving the folder contents and relative positions, or do I need to install the forum on the new site and somehow import the data? If the latter, is there a particular script available to help do this? If not, how do I do it?
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #22799 is a reply to message #22798] |
Wed, 16 February 2005 17:37  |
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If you have a large forum it is simpler to move the data manually.
To do this you need to do the following:
1) make mysql dump of all the forum data.
2) make archive of all forum files (if web root == data root, don't forget to archive data root).
3) Import mysql dump on new server.
4) Extract file archive.
5) Adjust GLOBALS.php inside include/ directory to correspond with new database settings and file paths.
6) Make sure that GLOBALS.php in forum web root & web_root/adm dirs is a symlink to the one in include.
7) Login to the forum via admin interface (forum_url/adm/) and rebuild your themes.
That's it.
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23529 is a reply to message #22799] |
Sun, 20 March 2005 20:28 |
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I have tried to follow these instructions in order to move a forum to a new computer but am having a problems.
I have done the following:
Copied the contents of the files and messages directories to the new computer. I changed the owner and group to apache.
I have dumped the forum mysql data with no problem. I noticed that the file used the prefix fud_ for the table names so I changed them to fud26_. I also noticed it pointed to a forumdata directory rather than FUDform in the new version. I then decided to change the database name in this file to forumdata3 so it would not corrupt the new empty installation. I thought it might allow me to switch between the old and new by just changing the name in the GLOBALS.php file.
I then tried that and it gives me an error in line 58 of the index.php file.
What have I done wrong? Is the problem that the old version 2.3.2 is just too old to allow this simple transfer?
Jim
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23541 is a reply to message #23540] |
Mon, 21 March 2005 14:13 |
Ilia
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Because the files that you are moving should contain ALL of the data from the old server including the files necessary to run the forum. Which is why after importing SQL data the only thing you need to do is adjust GLOBALS.php and then rebuild the theme.
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23543 is a reply to message #23542] |
Mon, 21 March 2005 14:22 |
Ilia
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Did you adjust GLOBALS.php? If so, did you make sure it does not have any parse errors in it?
Assuming the files were not corrupted by the transfer it is not possible for a PHP script to run ok on one server and generate a parser error on another.
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23544 is a reply to message #23543] |
Mon, 21 March 2005 14:34 |
fjrohlf
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Well, it is probalby not the same script. As I mentioned prevously, the data files are from version 2.3.2 and am trying to use them on the current version of the forum software. As I also mentioned previously, I only moved the MySQL data (but called the database forumdata3) and the contents of the files and messages directories to the new server (since those directories were empty on the new server).
I changed the GLOBALS.php file to say that the database was forumdata3.
I just noticed that on the old server there were two fewer MySQL tables defined than on the new server (I have not yet checked to see which they are). Perhaps that means that the files are not compatible. Perhaps I should install the old (2.3.2) FUD software on the new server, import my data, and then try to run an upgrade script?
Jim
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23551 is a reply to message #23544] |
Mon, 21 March 2005 18:34 |
Ilia
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You cannot do that, the old version is not compatible with the new. you need to restore the OLD forum on the new server and then run the upgrade script to perform the version "conversion".
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23557 is a reply to message #23551] |
Tue, 22 March 2005 03:15 |
fjrohlf
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ok, I have deleted all of the forum files on my new server and installed the same version of FUD as on the old server. I then used FUD to create a forum datadump on the old server and then tried to import it using the FUD import data function on the new server.
I got many errors. Most were of the following format:
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Commencing restore of data files
ERROR: Directory '/var/www/html/forum//errors/.backup/template_1027713844/src' does not exist and the import script was unable to create it
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Note the double slash that was present in every message.
The last few messages were:
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Commencing restore of SQL data
Processed 10000 queries
Processed 20000 queries
() 1146: Table 'forumdata.fud23_style' doesn't exist
Query: INSERT INTO fud23_style (id,name,enabled,default_s) VALUES(1,'Core Layout','N','N')
Server Version: 3.23.58
[Referring Page] http://192.168.1.11/forum/adm/admimport.php
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23558 is a reply to message #23557] |
Tue, 22 March 2005 03:29 |
fjrohlf
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Of course after seeing all those messages, I cannot start the forum. I get the following messages when I click on return to forum.
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Warning: main(theme//index.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/html/forum/index.php on line 677
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'theme//index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/html/forum/index.php on line 677
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So I will have to install the forum again. This is taking far too much time for what should not be a very unusual task of moving the forum to a new server.
Jim
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23569 is a reply to message #23558] |
Tue, 22 March 2005 14:09 |
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There was a bug with dump/import process in the old forum. Which is why I said make an archive of the files and via mysqldump make the dump of the SQL data moving both to the new server and then adjusting the GLOBALS.php
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| Re: Move a forum to another site host [message #23572 is a reply to message #23571] |
Tue, 22 March 2005 15:45 |
Ilia
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Yup, you need the archive of ALL the forum's files on disk. This means entire web and data directory (if they are separate).
You can find their paths in $WWW_ROOT_DISK & $DATA_DIR vars in GLOBALS.php
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