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#1 2025-01-25 17:50:05
- albatros69
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Migrate from a mono- to a multi-site instance
Dear all,
I’ve a mono-site textpattern instance (v4.8.7 if that matters). As I’m now extending the number of txp websites, I’ve prepared a new multi-site instance (v4.8.8). Everything is ready but I’m now wondering what is the best strategy to migrate the data from the old site to the new one.
The old is quite large and transferring all the stuff manually would be tedious.
Any hints before I’ll start?
Any hurdle I should expect because of the peculiarities of the situation?
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Re: Migrate from a mono- to a multi-site instance
SSH would be the most efficient way.
I posted a how to tutorial on txp tips some years ago.
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#3 2025-01-29 20:00:37
- albatros69
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Re: Migrate from a mono- to a multi-site instance
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albatros69 wrote #338961:
The new instance being a multi-site one doesn’t matter, does it?
Not really. The principle is the same. The main difference besides a slightly different directory structure is that the symlinks allow you to share a codebase, with a bunch of different databases, one per site.
You can migrate data from one database to another and copy the site files around (export and import themes etc). As long as you remember to change any txp_prefs that point to paths or URLs in each database to match the domain/directory structure of that instance, it all should work fine.
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Re: Migrate from a mono- to a multi-site instance
Please note, if you re-arrange your site manually and don’t go through the setup installer, you’ll need to add some additional config variables in your site’s config.php to define paths and the admin url. See these lines in config.php on your site’s future “private” directory.
EDIT: Reading your post again, it sounds like you used the installer and are now porting the /files and /images manually. In that case you probably already set those via the installer.
My guess is that there’ll be negligible/no update difficulties between 4.8.7 and 4.8.8. At least, there is no update script between 4.8.4 and 4.8.8 in the /textpattern/update/ directory.
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