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Hello all,

I'm switching my blog from a hosted environment (CentOS with cPanel) to my own colo. Is there a preferred method of migrating s9y? Is it easiest to do a database dump, perform a clean installation of the same version, and import the database dump? Will that work, or is there a better method of migrating?



Thank you preemptively.

Hi!

Kind of: DB dump, search&replace inside the dump for pathname replacement-dump import. No clean install needed. Also check the FAQ on s9y.org!

Regards,
Garvin

Hello Garvin,

Thanks for the link to that doc; I'm sure it will prove to be quite useful! Two more quick questions:

1) I am coming from a server that had cPanel to one that does not. CPanel named my s9y databases as blog_whatever, because blog was my username on that server. I would like to keep things consistent and have my username on this new server as the prefix. Should I search for blog_ in the SQL dump, and replace it with my username on this new server (e.g. $NEWUSER_database)? Will this cause any problems with the import? Is there a better way?

2) I see in the FAQ that you sent me that I can change the path of my blog as well. Currently (on the old server), it sits at domain.tld/blog/. I would like to put it at the root, so it shows up at domain.tld. I assume that I can do so at the same time that I make these other changes.


Thanks again for such an awesome product!

Hi!

To change the new credentials is very simple. Those are not stored in the database, but inside your "serendipity_config_local.inc.php" file. You can change it to what you named your DB there easily.

You can do the change from /blog/ to / - but you should use Search & Replace on the SQL-Dump to replace the string "/blog/" to "/", which should do the trick for all links etc. It's good to do that in one go, yes!

Best regards,
Garvin