We need to move an eFiction website to a new ISP that does not have eFiction currently installed. The wrinkle: the domain name will also be changing (ex: old-domain.com to totally-different-domain.com). We may have to set up the new efiction archive as a subdomain (still checking on whether we need to buy a new separate domain name). Is this doable?
My understanding so far
1. Install eFiction on the new ISP (the old site is using 3.5.3 so we thought we'd start by installing that first on the new ISP)
2. Download the sql backup
3. Upload it...but how to handle the rest ?
There isn't much of a difference between 3.5.3 and 3.5.5, a files changed but that's about it.
So ...
1. Download all your eFiction on the old ISP & download SQL backup
2. Upload again on the new ISP and restore SQL backup with some tool like phpMyAdmin
3. Edit config.php to reflect the changes, like database username/password and that kind of thing
Best would be to do backup and restore both with phpMyAdmin, if available.
eFiction is pretty lax when it comes to where it resides, be it path names or domains, if I'm not mistaken. I'm no expert there, though.
Thank you.
I just ran into several problems. One: using the restore function tries to wipe out every other database (we have wordpress running on the site). Then, using myphpadmin import I get
SQL query:
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-- Table structure for table `2songs`
--
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `2songs` ;
MySQL said: Documentation
#1046 - No database selected
Is there a tutorial with step by step method of migrating? or even something more basic on how to install eFiction. I went to the Wiki but the pages are now blank. I think I'll need to start over from scratch.
Wiki died when the page changed ownership, I am rebuilding it, but obviously focused on the upcoming version of eFiction.
I think you tried to import without selecting the target database first. Try to select a database (cause that's what the SQL error means, you didn't), and try again.
