Transfer easysocial install to new site
By Joshua Carritt-Baker on Wednesday, 01 February 2017
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Hi
Is there a built in system to transfer an easysocial install to another site? If not can the tables just be copied over? I want to preserve the users, groups and posts etc but would like to just migrate them from site A to existing site B. Thanks
Hm, if you are just migrating from site A to site B, why don't you just copy the database over and rename the database? On your new Joomla install, simply change the db name in the configuration.php
Mark
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Wednesday, 01 February 2017 18:25
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because site B already exists and has functionality we need to keep. copying the database would in effect be cloning site A in entirety? i just want to move the ES component and nothing else.
Joshua Carritt-Baker
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Wednesday, 01 February 2017 18:34
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You cannot preserve the user base this way because the id's might conflict. Existing users on siteB might already exist on siteA, there is no way to merge this.
Mark
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Wednesday, 01 February 2017 18:44
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there are no users on site B (or there don't need to be). but it has a general joomla site in place. presumably its the user ID that matters?
Joshua Carritt-Baker
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Wednesday, 01 February 2017 18:53
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If that is the case, you could export the database tables for all tables with the prefix of #__social and Joomla user's tables as well.
Mark
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Thursday, 02 February 2017 02:48
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