How to transfer a mambo website to a new domain

jimmy2thou · 05.04.2005, 14:15

Hi All,

I have created a website using mambo and mosets on my website. I need to now transfer it over to the main domain it will hosted on. I thought it would be as easy as copy & paste (oh foolish me!). Can anyone tell me how it is can be done.

Please tell me i don't have to redo the website.

Any help will be much appreciated,

Thanks,

Jim

robbie · 05.04.2005, 15:47

Download everything from your old website to your local harddisk. If you are also changing of MySQL host, make an SQL dump using phpmyadmin

Then upload all the stuff, except configuration.php. While uploading edit the configuration.php;

$mosConfig_absolute_path
$mosConfig_live_site
$mosConfig_cachepath

If the database is also changed edit also the following lines:

$mosConfig_host
$mosConfig_user
$mosConfig_password
$mosConfig_db

Have fun

jimmy2thou · 05.04.2005, 19:14

Hi Robbie,

Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions and now the website loads on the new domain. The only problem is that the website is the standard mambo template and none of what i have designed is there. The modules, mambots, components etc are not installed even though they are present on the server. Do i need to reinstall all of the modules etc again?

Is this because i need to use phpmyadmin to clear certain files? I am fairly new to all of this and i don't really understand how the phpmyadmin program works.

Again any help is much appreciated,

Thanks once again,

Jim

quiquedcode · 05.04.2005, 19:55

robbie
one question
when i transfer mambo's SQL from one domain to other, is there any effect with that change ?, or all (related to content, backend config, etc.) will be everything like it was in the other domain...

i meant, does mambo's sql depend on paths or something related to domain ?
thanks

robbie · 05.04.2005, 21:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimmy2thou

Hi Robbie,

Thanks for your help. I followed your instructions and now the website loads on the new domain. The only problem is that the website is the standard mambo template and none of what i have designed is there. The modules, mambots, components etc are not installed even though they are present on the server. Do i need to reinstall all of the modules etc again?

Is this because i need to use phpmyadmin to clear certain files? I am fairly new to all of this and i don't really understand how the phpmyadmin program works.

Again any help is much appreciated,

Thanks once again,

Jim

You should get _all_ the tables of the old database server to the new one (use the export function in mambo). Are the templates you have installed all use the variables or have you been editing them to let them work? If so you have to update the new links

..

@ quiquedcode;

The SQL is server-independent, just use the old SQL-dump and it should work

jimmy2thou · 05.04.2005, 22:24

Ok, here goes.

As i mentioned i am no pro at this stuff. Here's what i did. Firstly i backed up my original website just by downloading it via ftp so it is safe on my hard drive. I managed to figure out how to install phpmyadmin. After that confusion took over and my idea of an sql dump was to highlight every database folder and click on dump. This was all very swift, but has left the original website not to function and me in a small panic. I seem to be convincing myself each minute that i should have designed the website on the server it was going to be hosted on.

.

A couple of questions:

How do i backup my mambo website? In system/database in the admin section i have no backup option as the mambo guide suggests.

I tried the export function from phpmyadmin and have ended up with a notepad document on my desktop whcih doesn't seem very useful. Is there something i should know?

In the words of Grandpa Simpson "I'm cold and frightened"

Please help.

Thanks,

Jim

robbie · 06.04.2005, 13:42

If you have that SQL-dump, just put it on the new server , also with phpmyadmin

tulula · 07.04.2005, 00:22

Just following this this thread, I had to install and reinstall my info and no problems with the backend mysql. (have done this before many a time with other platforms)

With Mambo, I guess it's not that simple for the files - components, modules, mambots? I have all my files previous to the reinstall uploaded BUT all have to be re-activated one by one to work again? There has to be an easier way than going through my filemanager and pointing the install manager URL to each component, module, mambot that I had loaded before? Painstaking work here to review what I DO have active for each, and then point each to the files that were on the server before ("got" the files from the server before reinstalling the site in hopes that with reinstall, the system would autodetect which additional components were there upon reupload)

help!

robbie · 07.04.2005, 19:49

I think it's rather weird that people are having problems with moving their websites. I have changed of host many times and also moved some websites from friends, which were all done smoothly.

For as far as I know, you just have to download the files from the old host, upload them to the new host, download the SQL-dump from the old host, upload the SQL-dump to the new host and change some things in configuration.php and reupload it. It always works here that way

tulula · 07.04.2005, 20:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by robbie

For as far as I know, you just have to download the files from the old host, upload them to the new host, download the SQL-dump from the old host, upload the SQL-dump to the new host and change some things in configuration.php and reupload it. It always works here that way

I performed all you say above, however, after pulling my files to me locally and in the upload along with mysql reinstall, mambo doesn't seem to acknowledge the presence of any of the added on components, modules and mambots that weren't with the initial core.

Square one for me, however, going to move all to another site this afternoon to test again.

Maybe user error but I have no idea what happened with it all last time that had to reinstall all frontend manually while mysql had all old info...

Thanks