I have one blogging website created in wordress old version, (Where for every users blog and post wordpress use to create new database and table), but in latest wordpress, I found for all users information is stored in single database.
I have recreated my website with latest wordpress version. Now just wanted to migrate data (Inclused users and users posts) from existing website OLD to the NEW website.
Any help and suggestions would be highly appreciated.
I guess the way with least trouble would be to get all main releases between the old version and a current version. Then install them in a local system and upgrade the version plus data one version at a time.
Sounds tedious though.
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Here is my situation:
I have an eshop site with Wordpress + Woocommerce + WPML installed. Since the Wordpress is old and I want to upgrade it to latest version.
However, the problem is that the database size is 1.3GB.
I've tried download everything (website files and DB), and do a trial upgrade on my own machine. No doubt that after upgrading all the wordpress files, it spent huge amount of time upgrading database, mainly by: Wordpress, Woocommerce and WPML (especially WPML), and finally timeout and incompleted.
And since WC and WPML are old also, when I upgrade them, it takes another huge amount of time upgrading DB, again: timeout and incompleted.
Here is my question:
Can you please tell me, other than running the normal upgrade procedure, are there any other way to upgrade everything (WP, plugins etc) which is DB-intensive, given that the data in DB is important and I don't want to remove/delete it??
Thank you very much in advance for all your help.
Try local dump to database. First upload it to server or download it on server then crate a new db and local dumb on it. I have around 500MB database and it takes 3 to 4 minutes to uploading to new database. It will take max 10 minutes for your 1.3 Gb Db.
I already have a database. I have tried both manual and one-click installation of WordPress for my blog in a freehosting.com.
After one-click installation, by using phpMyAdmin, I removed the previously installed empty tables from the database and uploaded my tables from the database I already had. That didn't work (my blog showed nothing).
And after manual installation, I did the same. Now my blog opens but can't redirect to any page. It shows an error:
Not Found
The requested URL /page/2/ was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
How can I fix it?
There was an issue with the compatibility of the database (older .sql) file for the newer WordPress version. I fixed it by installing the older version of the WordPress. Then I removed old tables and uploaded my own (old .sql) tables and upgraded WordPress and database. WordPress helped me to update the database by one-click. This fixed everything.
The old WordPress database consists of 12 tables but the newer version consists of 13 tables. This is why I had to install the older version of WordPress for the compatibility with the older version of the database.
This happens because WordPress keeps links(permalinks) to all your posts and media files in database, to solve this issue you may have to change some settings
Go to Admin->Settings->General and change your WordPress address and site address
Go to Admin->Settings->Permalinks and review all permalink structure
If previous steps do not help got to phpMyAdmin select {your_prefix}options and change the value for 'siteurl' and 'home' fields to your site's url
I want to upgrade my joomla 1.5.22 website to latest version of joomla(3.3.6). Please suggest best way's to do this(suggest any free extensions).
Thanks in advance.
Firstly, you should alsy migrate from the latest version of your built, so step 1 is updating to Joomla 1.5.26. You can download the update package from here. Once downloaded, upload the package to the root of your Joomla installation via FTP and extract.
Step 2 is migrating for Joomla 2.5. For this, you can use an extension called JUpgrade. Simply download, install it on your Joomla site and run the migration. Everything will be done automatically for you.
Step 3 is now extremely easy. From now on, you can upgrade to a newer Joomla version using the 1 click update feature built into the Joomla backend. Simply go to:
Components (top menu) >> Joomla! Update.
You may need to click on the Options button and select "Short Term Support" to upgrade from Joomla 2.5.x to Joomla 3.x.
Now that you are running Joomla 3.x, please ensure that you are always up to date. If you see an update notification in the backend, do not update it straight away. Give it 1 or 2 days before updating as the Joomla PLT have been known to make mistake in some updates which break certain features.
Hope this helps
I attempted to upgrade joomla from 2.5.x versions to 3 versions but got various errors like as the one i posted here before here.
So i am trying another way by moving database tables from 2.5.11 to 3.2.3 version database.So for this i installed a new 3.2.3 site with required extensions like k2, CB...
i have been able to move joomla 2.5.11 site's database tables like users, modules, menus and other extension tables to joomla 3.2.3 site so is in this new site i am getting all users and menus and modules and extension's data.
But what about the "assets" and "extensions" tables, to do a complete
upgrade by database, should i move these two tables for
compatibilities with other things in new site? or i am done leaving
these tables well?.
Fyi, in my 2.5.11 site i don't need content articles as i am using k2.Furthermore, what other required tables' data i must move to new site for a complete migration using database tables?
If you install a clean 3.2.3, then install all of the extensions you need, then the assets and extensions tables do not need to be touched. You only need to move the tables that include content from the old site.
My site was messed up by a novice developer and I had no option then to delete the old files, and install a fresh copy of magento 1.7.0.2 . My old Magento version was 1.6.
I want to use the old database as I got all of my product listing on it and everything is on that database. I find no way of getting those table (and in fact they are so many in number that its almost impossible to remember their names) in to my new installation..
I tried point my magento installation to old database by editing local.xml but was un-successfull as magento was throwing errors again and again..error was
table already exists and some description
and to me, these errors make sense
can somebody guide me how I can point my old database to magento without errors or how I can load my old data in to new magento installation..
I fear that simply importing sql database might not work
thanks
You can also try to use a copy of the old database and install a new magento store over the existing database. That's what I've done so far and I could continue using the existing products. Be sure, that the database isn't corrupt.
Download the latest version of magento and start the setup routine. When Magento asks for the access data of your database, use the acess data of the "old" database. Magento will automatically upgrade your Database to Magento 1.7.
After that you have to install your theme and all the extensions you used in the old shop. Be sure, they are working on magento 1.7. And you have to copy the media folder, to use all images of products and categories.
This may help you:
http://indieswebs.com/blog/upgrade-to-latest-magento-using-fresh-install-technique/
http://neoshops.de/2013/08/03/how-to-upgrade-magento-using-old-database/
I would try importing the old database first. It will get everything as long as it completes successfully. This page has detailed instructions: http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/groups/227/moving_magento_to_another_server
If the db import fails, Magento often makes changes (even if minor) the structure of its database between versions. Your best bet is to install the exact same version of Magento (1.6.something) then, point it to your old database by editing app/etc/local.xml. You should clear your cache so Magento loads the new version of the local.xml - Admin->system->cache manager->allcache->refresh
Then you can update to the latest version.