I am moving a site from one server to another other, and receiving the Invalid Preference Data error on the transferred version.
The website is an upgrade from 1.7 to 2.5.2 and running flawlessly on its current server. I’ve copied all of the files. (Checked permissions on cache, config.php and database.php) I’ve exported/imported the database, several times now, but whatever I do (including checking the site preferences in the Online PHP Unserializer) I cannot get the site to function on the new server.
It is worth noting that the new server already contains a successfully moved MSM installation, transferred from the exact same server, and both are managed by the same company- they are probably identical, one a bit larger than the other.
What should I do next? The exp_site preferences are not base64, if that matters. I’ve looked at them and they do contain some bad data, file paths for example, however these are values from a database that is behind a perfectly functioning website- I handle most of the file paths in the config file anyway.
Thank you
EDIT: problem solved. I had been importing my initial DB backup from the 1.7 version. Geez.