liip/move-freeflux

Name: move-freeflux

Owner: Liip

Description: How to move a freeflux account to another server

Created: 2013-11-25 08:12:31.0

Updated: 2013-11-26 13:31:30.0

Pushed: 2013-11-25 08:13:36.0

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README

Needed extensions

• xsl for php
• curl for php
• mysql(i) for php
• gd for php
• mod_rewrite for apache

Install the files

• Down the .tgz we sent you a link to
• un"zip” it.
• Untar the content of *.files.tar to an empty directory (locally or on the server)
• Move the content of that directory into your DOCOUMENT_ROOT on your server (or upload it, if you have it locally)
• Don't forget the .htaccess, as well.
• make sure tmp/ is writeable for the webserver (and later also files/ dynimages/ and data/

Setup the database

• Create a new database in mysql (you can also use an existing one, since all tables are prefixed)
• Import the sql into MySQL in the *.tgz you downloaded and extracted. It's usually called something like xyz.freeflux.net.sql
• Open conf/config.xml and edit the following section:

<connections>
    <db type="dsn">
        <phptype>mysql</phptype>
        <username>exportcms</username>
        <password>exportcms</password>
        <hostspec>localhost</hostspec>  
        <database>exportcms</database>
        <tableprefix>exportcms_</tableprefix>         
    </db>

Replace username, passwort, database and tableprefix_ with your values.

tableprefix is a little bit special, but easy to find out. Just look into that xyz.freeflux.net.sql file and search for the first line starting with

-- Table structure for table `xyz_freeflux_net__sequences_seq`

Your tableprefix would be in the case:

xyz_freeflux_net_

Call the site

Now you should be able to call the site and your freeflux blog. If something goes wrong, try deleting everything in tmp/* or just a 2nd reload (sometimes the config file is not generated correctly in the first run)

Compatibility

• All this was tested with the latest PHP and MySQL from Ubuntu 13.10. PHP 5.5.3 and MySQL 5.5.34. Since freeflux.net ran on much older versions (PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.0), it should run in everything between, too.