CMS Made Simple Forums

I am in the process of trying to figure out the best way to migrate the data from an older CentOS 5 CMS Made Simple 1.6.7 to a new install of CMS Made Simple 1.9.4.2 running on Scientific Linux 6.

Is it possible to do a mysqldump of the old database and put it in the new one and the old directory data?

What is the best method of migrating the data from the old server?

Any advice tips would be great.

I would first move the site, check if it works oke, then do the upgrade

move:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... er_.281.29

upgrade:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... /Upgrading

Jos wrote:I would first move the site, check if it works oke, then do the upgrade

move:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... er_.281.29

upgrade:
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... /Upgrading

Gotcha, so install the CMS Made Simple from the old server on the new server then do the upgrade.


Thank you,

I successfully updated the server.

FYI if you are running SL6 you will need to get the php-mcrypt package along with php-mbstring and some others if anyone needs them I can post them.

I built a new SL6 x86_64 server, took the tar'd up directory contents from the old server. Dumped the old database, untar'd the directory, imported the old database.

Made some modifications for file paths and so on.

Ran the upgrade and everything went smooth.


Thank you again for the link!

y're welcome

nice to hear all went well