[TYPO3-linux] Moving a Typo3 site to a new provider

[Paul Sanderson]

Hi Michael,

That's one of the reasons I've avoided real URL on some sites (I've been 
using AliasPro which is easily disabled). Though that should not be the 
primary problem if one uses one of the various backup extensions to zip 
up and archive your TYPO3 install from within TYPO3 itself. The 'real' 
problem, so to speak, as you are probably aware, is going to be the 
local paths on the server that may differ when you move to a different 
server with different architecture. Though it's still possible to take 
an archive and extract it and import the SQL dump file separately. Using 
w4x_backup for example, it's possible to manually unpack the tar and 
gzipped archive and do a find an replace on paths in files 
(localconf.php being an important source of those paths). You'll need to 
setup a fresh and working install on the 'new' server to make this 
process easier.

This of course is most easily done if you have shell access, and 
probably can also get quite a bit of get assistance from you're web 
administrator (or root access if it's your server) to correct any 
permissions issues. I'm not sure this can easily be done at all on 
shared-severs that don't allow shell access.

Though it doesn't sound like you're inexperienced in these matters, I 
hope my own comments, about similar migrations to 'different 
architecture' above helps.

e.g. from a CPanel server to a non-CPanel server (both were using 
FreeBSD OS though the first was running PHP via suphpexec and the new 
server wasn't). Permissions were the biggest problems, as the number of 
places where paths actually changed was minimal; again localconf.php is 
you're main worry there, apart from the custom paths you may have 
written into your TypoScript templates. Since most (if not all) of my 
files where kept in 'fileadmin' and 'typo3conf' directories the rest 
(even the SQL dump import) was relatively painless. Again, secure shell 
access was a huge boon to this whole process not to mention a supportive 
web administrator.

Best regards,

Paul Sanderson
IIBS Consulting - iibscdev
pauls at iibsc.com

Michael W. Lewis wrote:

>Hi Patrick,
>
>Did anyone give you a suitable answer?
>
>I am running a 3.6.2 site and need to upgrade. I wanted to
>move the "site" to a local machine (different DNS name).
>
>I couldn't find a way to do it, the DB seems to contain
>"knowledge" of the "real" URL and there is no way it will
>operate correctly on a different system.
>  
>