[dev] Moving Horde (and applications) to another server

[Robin Rainton]

It's actually easier to move servers without changing paths, etc. than 
trying to move to a different path/webroot.

I just did this a month or so ago and went without a hitch by doing what 
you plan (copying filesystem and DB and that's it).

Robin

Alex Ng wrote:

> Yes, I will be moving my MySQL databases using mysqldump.
>
> As a test, I copied the entire /horde directory and put it in the same 
> path (IN THE SAME OLD SERVER), simply renaming it to /horde-old
>
> Then I tried to direct apache to read from /horde-old, but it did not 
> work.  I just get a blank page for some reason.  I then read about 
> changing the configuration so that the webroot in 
> /horde/config/registry.php points to the same document root.  So I 
> changed the webroot to be 'horde-old'.  This did not work either.
>
> If I am not even able to move this old-installation of horde into a 
> different directory, I could imagine how hectic trying to move the 
> whole installation to another server would be.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Alex
>
> On 12/30/05, *Robin Rainton* <robin at rainton.com 
> <mailto:robin at rainton.com>> wrote:
>
>     Erm... surely there is some kindof backend data too? MySQL perhaps?
>
>     Do something like this on the source:
>
>     mysqldump -u horde -phorde horde > horde.mysqldump
>
>     Then copy that file to destination and (after creating the horde
>     DB and
>     user):
>
>     mysql -u horde -phorde horde < horde.mysqldump
>
>     Perhaps you have LDAP too? Or some other DBMS? You get the idea
>     anyhow.
>
>     Assuming this is just a server relocation and you're not re not
>     changing
>     the hostname or anything or you'll have to tweak other settings too.
>
>     Robin
>
>     Alex Ng wrote:
>
>     >Dear all
>     >
>     >I am in the process of trying to move my current installation of
>     Horde (with
>     >Turba, Kronolith, etc) from one server to another server.
>     >
>     >What I think I'm going to do is just copy the /horde directory
>     from old
>     >server to /horde directory on new server.
>     >
>     >Can anyone give me some insight into if this is do-able or how I
>     should do
>     >this move?
>     >
>     >Thanks.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>
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