Migrate Vanilla to another Server

matthias2

Hi,

i want to move to another hosting company.

Still running a forum on 2.6.4.

First i want to do a test e.g. :

old url: www.oldurl.de
new url: www.newurl.de

Is there a migration tool? The database will change.

Hope someone can help me.

Thanks.

R_J

It's quite easy and the first 4 steps are what you would have expected anyway:

1. Export database from old SQL server
2. Import database to new SQL server
3. Download files from old file server
4. Upload them to new file server
5. Change database information in /conf/config.php
6. Delete everything in the /cache folder

When handling with files and you are not on linux all the time, you might have to fix the file permissions.

/conf, /uploads, and /cache must be writable, all other folders must be readable by the www user.