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how to oxwall powered site migrate to another domain | Forum
If you want to move the entire site, do them all.
1. Export database to a .sql file via MyPHPAdmin and save it on your computer.
2. Go to new site and create a new database with same name using MyPHPAdmin
Note: If you only want to add the data to your new database, don't do step 2. You must first drop (delete) the contents of your new database created during you new install. You drop the files using MyPHPAdmin
3. Import .sql file into new database. Also with MyPHPAdmin.
4. Using cPanel or similar, open your old site directory with File Manager.
5. Copy and Zip all files.
6. Using Filezilla or similar, download zip file to your computer.
7. Upload zip file to new server using Filezilla or similar.
8. Go to new server cPanel/File Manager
9. Unzip the file you just uploaded. It must be in the same directory as your last server: /public_html or public-html/yoursite (best).
10. Now navigate to ow-Includes
11. Using the editing feature of File Manager open config.php
12. Edit line 3 by entering the URL of your new site
13. Edit line 5 by entering your database host. Usually localhost
14. Make sure lines 3 to 12 are correct. Don't alter anything else.
15. Save the file
16 Open another browser tab and try to access your site.
Provided your domain has been already transferred, there could be a delay of up to 48 hours for the domain to be propagated.
If this sounds complicated, you really should consider getting someone with experience to do it for you.
Team
As per instructions above, majority seems to be working however, some of my pictures are still pointing to my old /public_html/ow_userfiles/ folder instead on my new one, so some pictures are not showing up, but the post and comments are (just missing pictures, from what I can tell so far)
How do I make Oxwall see the proper location of my new /public_html/members/ow_userfiles/.... folder?
TeamAlso, what are the permissions of the ow_userfiles folder?
Ross, here is the steps I took to move my site from /public_html to /public_html/members/
1) Made backup of my /public_html files and folders
2) Made backup of databases
3) Moved my oxwall installation folders and files to /public_html/members/
4) After move completed migration, made sure permissions were set as follows:
ow_pluginfiles 777
ow_userfiles 777
ow_static 777
ow_smarty/template_c 777
5) Changed /ow_includes/config.php as follows:
Toggled DEV mode to "True"
Changed OW_URL_HOME to reflect new migration:
define('OW_URL_HOME', 'https://www.mysite.com/members/');
Opened my site in the browser and refreshed
Toggled DEV mode back to "False"
6) Changed CRON to reflect migration
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I knew that the database was connected, because I could log in the site.
After sign-in however, all comments were visible, but no images in
dashboard newsfeed. I could click on an image and it would access the
images from mysite.com/members/ow_userfiles/ correctly. When I would
right-click the dashboard newsfeed placeholder however, it would reflect
the original location of mysite.com/ow_userfiles. It's like the
database was reading from both.
Also, another bizarre occurrence, was that I could not make changes to
an existing custom css within the Admin-->Themes-->Edit CSS field,
it would keep giving me a red-error-bar.
I toggled DEBUG mode to true - I have included a screen shot.
I went back into my directory and once again verified that all
permissions were set, and the site acted like it was still trying to get
information from both the original directory and the new directory.
I could easily post new content and the site would reference that
content correctly to the new directory, but the previous pictures in the
dashboard newsfeed was not visible.
I have since reverted all changes until I can get this sorted.
Team
If so, it's really unfortunate that Oxwall can not be moved easily. I would have liked to have read a warning about this when I first considered Oxwall. Don't get me wrong - I absolutely love Oxwall however, I think the team should add a disclaimer to make sure users put the final install into a directory that they will be happy with; (maybe the team has already and I missed it?).
Can you tell me what would happen if I followed all the steps again, but this time left a copy ow_userfiles in the original location. Then over a few months, just delete the original ow_userfiles folder (it would be like purging old feeds - but I think all the old large pictures would still be referenced correctly from the new ow_userfiles location). Just curious what you think?
Team
TeamIf
you leave the copy of ow_userfiles folder in public_html folder it
solves issue for old files and new ones will be placed to new
ow_userfiles folder.
However this solution will work if you move
the software within folders located on one server.
In case you
decided to transfer your site to another server, the best way is to
change the values in DB
(http://www.oxwall.org/forum/topic/17739?page=1#post-88502)
