EE Migrate
Development and Programming
Hum, that’s strange because it’s doing the replace on ALL tables and fields. I don’t have a list coded in there at all, it just grabs a list of all the tables and their fields then runs a replace on that. Are you sure you’ve entered a string that exists in those fields? Are you sure there’s content to replace?
Yes, I definitely had the data in there, I had to change it by hand to get up and running. I’ll be trying it again in the next couple of weeks and will report back. This tool sounds like just the ticket for me.
Mark: I used 1.0.3 successfully yesterday to launch a site. Here’s what I’ve written in my documentation:
The migrate tool will change embedded domain name and server path variables. The following data is needed: original host name, target host name, original server path, target server path.
The tool is available here:
http://FINAL.DOMAIN.NAME/system/eemigrate.php
The tool should be run twice:
1. Replace the host name
2. Replace the server paths
Note: The folder "system" is a placeholder variable for EE system folder. This folder should be renamed and not called "system".
It might be nice to actually tailor the tool to this purpose, prompting the user to complete the two-part process.
I’ve used this offline a few times already. I moved an installed of EE to a different directory on Ubuntu, and ran this script.
Works flawlessly! Three times thus far!
I’m sure (hoping so, really!) … but pretty darned excited about getting my site ONline, so I can really test this out.
Thanks Mark!
hi mark, is there a version for EE 1.6?
Not yet. possibly in a month or so.
doh!
Glad to hear it is in development Mark.
What will happen if I use this with 1.6
I’m an idiot. I tried to use this on 1.6 and things broke. I did a database restore but I can no longer login. What doesn’t this change that it isn’t meant to?
What do you mean you can’t log in? Does it tell you a password is wrong? Do you see a white screen? If you view source is there anything there?
White screen no source. I restored the database to an version just before the switch and also overwrote the EE files with the newest build of ee 1.6
But can you run update.php from your system directory?
yes
Mark:
I’d be willing to contribute ($) toward the development of the next version. Let’s setup a time to chat. I’ve got some specialized uses in mind for your product.