Hi Invision Community crew

For many bad reasons, I have to migrate my IPB suite to a new server.

Is there a place to find a tutorial for the best way to proceed ? 

Regards

There is nothing Invision-Community-specific about such a move. You just:

1. put the site in offline mode
2. export the files and upload to new server
3. export the MySQL database and import it on the new server
4. test the website with its server IP/domain
5. when everything works again, put installation online and initiate the domain transfer

 

Optional, but recommended:

• Perform a trial transfer with step 2 to 4 just to make sure everything CAN work on the new server and that the export and import are processed correctly. Watch out for problems with character sets (database) or file permission errors (file system). 
• Change the DNS settings on the current domain and set a short TTL time. This will speed up the domain transfer. 

 

Thanks a lot 🙂

I have allready set a short TTL to the NS records before the change

 

Migration done for my 700.000 posts / 30.000 members forum
Some issues with google maps APIs, but only parameters to update

Sounds like it went well.

I just did 2 migrations. One was small, and it was easy enough to do a full site backup in Cpanel and Restore it in DirectAdmin. The other forum was huge and didn't have enough room for a backup, so we had to copy it over in pieces. This was very slow and we had a lot of downtime but it worked.