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Moving to a New Server: What should I test before finalizing move?

smrogers
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In anticipation of upgrading to IC 5 (self-hosted), I am doing housecleaning, including moving to a new VPS server. My web host has migrated all of my files, and I am now testing before making the switch final (e.g., changing DNS).

So far, I notice zero problems in IC 4, but I wanted to look to the community for recommendations of things to test.

Thanks,

Steve

Emojis all working fine? Find a page that contains emojis from before the migration and refresh it to make sure they are still there. It may sound strange, but years ago during a migration my emojis were lost, as the default character set for mysqldump in version 5.7 was still UTF8 and it was exported that way. Unfortunately it took me 3 months to realise this had happened and why as new emojis were working fine, so I just couldn't go back to a backup or new dump. It is very unlikely this happens today, particularly if this was a CPanel/WHM migration, but no harm in checking.

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    You can always try a test install using a subdomain before you switch. Just make sure you disable any of the commerce payment options, if your site uses it.

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    8 hours ago, smrogers said:

    My web host has migrated all of my files , and I am now testing before making the switch final (e.g., changing DNS).

    Has the database been migrated/transferred as well? Because if it hasn't, that needs to be transferred/migrated too and the details of the new database need to be added at the conf_global.php file.

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    On 4/18/2025 at 8:12 PM, PPlanet said:

    Emojis all working fine? Find a page that contains emojis from before the migration and refresh it to make sure they are still there. It may sound strange, but years ago during a migration my emojis were lost, as the default character set for mysqldump in version 5.7 was still UTF8 and it was exported that way. Unfortunately it took me 3 months to realise this had happened and why as new emojis were working fine, so I just couldn't go back to a backup or new dump. It is very unlikely this happens today, particularly if this was a CPanel/WHM migration, but no harm in checking.

    Emojis transferred! It was a CPanel/WHM Migration.

    Database was also transferred, and the forum seems to be working fine. Thank you all for the suggestions.

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