Philooo Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 There is nothing Invision-Community-specific about such a move. You just: put the site in offline mode export the files and upload to new server export the MySQL database and import it on the new server test the website with its server IP/domain 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. Marc Stridgen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Explosion Posted August 20, 2023 Share Posted August 20, 2023 Marc Stridgen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philooo Posted August 21, 2023 Author Share Posted August 21, 2023 Thanks a lot 🙂 I have allready set a short TTL to the NS records before the change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Philooo Posted September 3, 2023 Author Solution Share Posted September 3, 2023 Migration done for my 700.000 posts / 30.000 members forum Some issues with google maps APIs, but only parameters to update Marc Stridgen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Angle Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 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. Philooo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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