[Typo3] Move site - how?

[Jakob Rohde]

Hi Christoph,

I tried another method - for non workaholics... And it worked!

I exported the entire tree and imported it as a subtree under a dummy 
page created on "site B". It gave me a lot of error messages caused by 
missing extensions.

Then I installed the missing extensions, deleted the imported site, 
cleared all cache and imported once again. This time witout error messages.

And then I spimply clicked on the page which was previously the top most 
page, and moved it to the top. Afterwards I deleted the dummy page. 
(Maybe it would be an ides for the next Typo3 version to add a "Import 
from .td3" menu item to the drop down menu of the site icon in the page 
tree?).

I also copied the relevant directories and files from fileadmin to the 
new server.

Voila!

I have moved the site to a server, which is to function as a development 
/ staging site in the future. It is my intention, that I will test new 
modules and new versions of Typo3 etc. on this server before installing 
them on the future production server. I have noticed the precense of a 
backend module called "liveserver sync". Do you, or any other reader of 
this list, have any experience with this one?

Jakob

Christoph Roth wrote:
> Jakob Rohde schrieb:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to move an entire site from one T3 server to another. I exported 
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> if you just want to move a complete site from server A to server B you 
> can do the following:
> 
> On server A:
> 
> 1. log into the backend, clear all cache.
> 2. Make a dump of the site's database (for example with Typo3's built in 
> phpmyadmin module)
> 3. make a zip or tar archive of the site's file tree, including the 
> source tree.
> 
> On server B:
> 
> 1. create a new empty database and pipe in the database dump from Server A
> 2. unpack the file tree archive from server A on server B
> 
> You may check the path entries of some binaries with the install tool on 
> server B, for example ImageMagick could have moved to another directory. 
> Also the PHP configuration may have changed on the new server.
> 
> This whole procedure sounds a bit dirty, but I have done it serveral 
> times with no problems on Linux, even with more complex sites of several 
> hundred pages.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Christoph
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