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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Moving hosting, site no longer works (John Tate) 2. Re: Moving hosting, site no longer works (Jamie Holly)
I'm thinking the easiest way to solve this will be to just start a fresh drupal site. Nobody is having this problem moving sites, it seems somehow my original site got corrupted, probably by Dreamhost for leaving or something. I started transferring the site after the domain so that is plausible. I can't see if the original site even works for that reason. It should still have all my blogs in the database, can I migrate just the blog posts to a new install?
I have found so many problems in trying to move a Drupal site. My technique for what it's worth is: ---- Take a copy of the /sites/default/settings.php lines 203-216, I think which is the database username and password information.
--Take a tar.gz of the /sites folder -ONLY-. Not the whole Drupal thingy. --Get a sql of the database, you could use a tar.gs of the sql but I have seen problems with compressing and extracting so I do not do this. Create the new database. --- All this presupposes that you have a backup of the database --before-- you changed ISP and can use that. --- On a shared server...If using mysql and you have cPanel, create the new database with the same name, username and password. copy the sql file to a safe place on the server using cPanel or ssh. Preferably not in public_html. --- Ask the new ISP to put the data from the old database into the newly created one. ON a shared server they won't let me play in mysql so they do it for me. They do it very well and fast.
Once the database is in place....... --Do a fresh extract -but not install- of the Drupal system on your new server. -- Rename the /sites folder to something like /xxxsites so it falls to the bottom of the drupal directory, easily found and deleted when everythingl works. Copy the tar.gz of your original /sites folder to the new file system. --unpack/extract the /sites.tar.gz to create an exact copy of the orignal sites folder in the new system.
Set permissions on /sites/default/settings.php to chmod 777
-- in the copied over /sites/default/ settings.php, delete the database information and save -- lines 203 - 217, anyway it's highlighted and easy to find. --- Start installing Drupal: When it asks for the user name and password, simply copy and paste from the previous settings.php. Continue the installation and your new site should appear fully in tact.
I do this frequently and have not experienced any difficulties to date. After it all works simply chmod 644 the /settings.php file so Drupal doesn't complain. Hope this helps Roger