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I’ve got an old site that was actually deleted from my web server.  My DB for EE however was left in tact and still functional.

What is the best way to recreate the site without issues?  I’m not sure what the last install of EE was on the site but I know it was prior to 1.6.  It could quite possibly be a version prior to 1.5 even.

The DB does have the templates saved in it so all the templates are in place in the DB but I’m concerned about installing a fresh copy of EE and then importing or restoring the existing DB and something breaking in the mean time.

Thanks for the help/suggestions.

Robert

First I would back up your database. Take a copy and save it somewhere safe.

You will need a copy of the config file from the old site. If you don’t have it I hope the support crew can make some suggestions!

Download the latest build. Copy your config.php file over. and Enter your database connection details into config.php. Make sure file permissions are set as per the upgrade instructions

Then run /system/update.php.

This will look at the version number in config.php and run updates on your database and files if necessary. Once upgraded you should be good to go, although you won’t have any CSS or images.

rtkenmore, as George said, you will have to manually recreate both path.php (in your root directory) as well as config.php (in your system directory), then upload a copy of EE and run update.php.

In the wiki you can find sample versions of both files. Does that help?

Ok, thatall seems to make sense but the only problem is that there are no files left on the server from the old site.  I don’t have a config.php file to copy everything from as George suggest and therefore I don’t know what version number the site was running.

If I install a fresh copy of EE…  Can I then alter the config.php file that is created with the information for the existing copy of the database?  Or will that break stuff?

Hm- no files at all?  Well- could step through the updates and compare the db changes made to what’s in your current db.  1.5.0 added exp_member_search - so if that table exists, we know you’re 1.5.0+.  Does it?