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Hei all,

It is driving me crazy to be obliged to redo all these pages when loally they are ready and complete.

Why can't I have database backup working Mark, can I have the xlm version of database backup module ? Maybe it will permit me to transfer my database.

Up till now Mysqldump seems not be able to do it.

I follow the instructiions given and get a txt backup file that I upload to the admin/backups folders on the testing server, still no result only the text of the default install.

Please how can I get over this ?

Is there any permission ,settings to change on these files ?

Or is there another way to have my pages on the server ?

I wonder if this is all the pain one should go through for every site, from the testing to the final upload to the client's domain.

Please CMSMS experts, you are so many to use this nice tool, what is the secret to moving your pages to the client's site finally ?

Any help is higly appreciated and awaited here.

Thanks

cmsms fan

It shouldn't be too hard. I never used any module, just do it by hand:
Copy over the files (create a tarball and extract it on the server otherwise permissions might get messed up), create a db dump (either with mysqldump or phpmyadmin), restore the dump on the new server (the database should be empty when you do so - use command-line mysql or phpmyadmin to restore the dump), edit config.php and you should be good to go.

I wish I could just follow your instructions but I have been working only in a windows envireonment so I am not used to .tar or tarball termonologies.
So even after following the link to the by hand move, i still don't know how to because it looks the commands you  have given var, ssh... and all the rest, i understand nothing from it.

Is there no other procedure for windows based pc with normal ftp as method of upload?

I keep expecting the secret from more windows experts of this forum.

Thanks

The DataBase Backup module in .zip format is avail. here...

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 208.0.html

once you have the backup-29-2006-11-4-39-59.txt file put it in the new sites backup folder in admin/backup via FTP then go to Backup and restore it...

I've used this method now too many times to count and it still works, every thing in one site is totally duplicated in the new site, just did it last week, if you have modules in new site that are not in old you will have to reinstall them, and all the extras from your uploads folder, not in default install, new images etc. will have to be transfered by FTP...

Mark,
I have a similar issue, but not nearly as complicated (I think)  . I installed CMSMS into a directory at root level called CMSMS (so that I could experiment and get my site ready, while leaving my current site running). I'm now ready to dump my static site and replace with CMSMS. SOOO, I thought, I'll just move the contents of the CMSMS directory to root level and all will be good....NOT.

Apparently there is more to this than I know, but it seems it shouldn't be as hairy as moving to a new server...just want to move everything up a directory level.

Any ideas would be appreciated, thank you!!
Todd

Moving from subfolder to root is the least painful of all...
CMSMS doesn't care where or what folder it's in as long as the paths are correct...

Copy all files/folders out of subfolder into root,
Open config.php edit paths...
  old "domainname.tld/subfolder"
new "domainname.tld"

Make sure that if you had an existing home page, index.html or what ever the old home page was, that you rename/delete it...
I've done it by just renaming it pindex.html...

Mark,
Many thanks...I suspected it had to be pretty easy...

By the way, any luck with those drop down menus from cssplay.co.uk that we talked about?
Todd