By Kaloyan Banev on Friday, 16 May 2014
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Hi StackIdeas friends,

In the next couple of days, I am planning to migrate from Joomla 2.5 to Joomla 3.3. Would you give me some tip regarding the best course of action.

Should I uninstall all extensions first, upgrade to 3.3 and after that install extensions again or simply to hit update?

Kind regards
Kal
Hello Kaloyan Banev,

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 3.3.

*Backup your data first before perform migration

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 3.3

**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).

If problem still persist please provide us with the .sql dump file, database access and FTP access so that I can check on the issues on your site? We actually need these information so that we can debug on your issues quickly.
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Friday, 16 May 2014 10:57
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Hi StackIdeas friends,

Just decided to drop an update on the matter. Migration was successfull and there wasn't a single problem with StackIdeas extensions. I am using all - EasySocial, EasyBlog and Komento.

I will share how I did the upgrade. I've backed up all with Akeeba backup, but additionally prepared SQL dumps for critical areas.

I didn't uninstall anything, just went straight to Joomla Update. It took less that 30 sec to migrate from 2.5 to 3.3.
Zero problem ecountered!

Special thanks for developing such a great extensions!

Cheers
Kal
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Monday, 19 May 2014 10:24
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Hello Kaloyan Banev,

Sorry for late reply to this,
Did you follow my step above?
Let's say if you would like to migrate the Easyblog old site to new site, you have to export all the Easyblog table prefix of #__easyblog_* into sql dump file,
then 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 exported out, and do a search and replace of jos_ with your new database prefix.

After that import this sql dump file in your new database, then only install the Easyblog component in your new site.

If you need further assistance, please provide us with your phpmyadmin access, old site Joomla backend, new site Joomla backend access and FTP access so we can help you do the migration in your site? Please advise.
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Monday, 19 May 2014 11:39
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