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 Replacing a Drupal website, from D6 to D7, ho to move the new site to the old server? (4 Replies, Read 3790 times)
maxmeno1
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Hello;

I have a legacy Drupal 6 website (Softaculous installation) that finally is going to be replaced by a Drupal 7, updated version. I built the D7 website on a different server and now I'm ready to move it and replace the Drupal 6 installation.

Question: if I just
1) compress/move the old site,
2) place the new one in the same folder, pointing to the new database,
would Softaculous simply take note of this operation and simply forget about the original D6 installation + database? Or am I looking for trouble?
Hope it's clear....

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punit
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Hi,

Manually transfer files over Drupal 6 installation and change Database credentials.

Once this is done go to the Edit Installation page in Softaculous and update the database details :
http://www.softaculous.com/docs/How_to_edit_an_installation

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Replacing a Drupal website
maxmeno1
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Thank you, easier that I hoped for.... ;-)


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maxmeno1
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Oops... One problem here.

As "Installation details", Softaculous only gives me
- Directory
- URL
- Backup location

No way to update database name and password.

The fist time I logged in, I got a message saying more or less "Oops... It looks like Drupal version is 7.x and not 6.x... Click here to update the information"

I did and now it shows as 7.54 in the installations list (with a "clone" option icon that I don't have for the other ones). But I don't think I can trust Softaculous with doing any safe upgrade/backup with this install.

Thoughts?

Thanks
M.
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Brijesh
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Quote From : maxmeno1 May 28, 2017, 8:18 am
Oops... One problem here.

As "Installation details", Softaculous only gives me
- Directory
- URL
- Backup location

No way to update database name and password.

The fist time I logged in, I got a message saying more or less "Oops... It looks like Drupal version is 7.x and not 6.x... Click here to update the information"

I did and now it shows as 7.54 in the installations list (with a "clone" option icon that I don't have for the other ones). But I don't think I can trust Softaculous with doing any safe upgrade/backup with this install.

Thoughts?

Thanks
M.

Hi,

It looks like the database records are not fetched correctly from the settings.php file of your Drupal installation. Can you please open a support ticket with us and we will check this for you in detail and let you know what is the issue :
https://www.softaculous.com/support/

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.


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