By Krx on Tuesday, 07 April 2015
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Hello

I need to upgrade our website from J2.5.27 into latest J3.4.1
Currently I have EasyBlog 3.9.18613 installed there.
Can you suggest best way how to do upgrade our website?

I would like to transfer everything added by users and EB settings.
Because of many other components installed on current website, and because of my overall bad experience with Joomla 2 to 3 auto-update for some other much simpler websites, my basic idea is to do this:
1. Create new Joomla 3 installation,
2. Install latest EB there,
3. Duplicate and backup current website,
4. Upgrade EB in backup environment to get latest table structure,
5. Manually copy tables, files and settings into new installation.

Would you recommend my procedure or do you have better suggestion how to migrate EB?
I would apply the same to Komento as well.

Thanks,
Regards
Hi Krx,

Sorry for late reply to this,

Ideally, it's best that you create an export dump through phpmyadmin and export the tables over. Here's the general guideline that you could use and it is also what we used previously when we migrated from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.x.

*Backup your data first before perform migration
*Migrate all the Joomla 2.5 user to Joomla 3.x first using 3rd party extension (make sure all the user id is same as Joomla 2.5)
*Don't Install Easyblog in your new site.


1. Open up PHPMyAdmin tool that is provided by your hosting provider and open up your current site's database.
2. Make a sql dump for all the tables that has the prefix of #__easyblog_*
3. Download the .sql file and save it on your desktop.
4. If your new site's database prefix also uses the same prefix , then you can skip this part. However, if you are using a different database prefix, you'll need to edit the .sql file that you've just downloaded, and do a search and replace of jos_ with your new database prefix.
5. Open your PHPMyAdmin and this time, open up your new site's database.
6. You should see an import link at the top. Click on that, and click on browse. Select the .sql file and click the run import button.
Note : 7. Install the latest EasyBlog on your new site Joomla 3.x

**migrate additional - if your blog post have including the image file, you have to do this step as well.
That was to copy over the image and media files associated with EasyBlog (e.g. the "/images/easyblog_avatar", "/images/easyblog_images", "/images/easyblog_shared", and the "/media/com_easyblog" folders and all of their contents).
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