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How to move from old to new forum?
Feb 08, 2018 16:31
Since my forum is about nature and everything outside is ice now. It is better to launch the forum in spring (better for me too)
The plan is March 1. Launch new bio.no April 18. Launch New forum May 23. Launch App
BUT!
I wonder if I have been all wrong about how to move from old forum to new forum.... And hope I can ask you for advice
I have to
1. First: Move new site (bio.no) from kiwihosting (they don't support latest PHP or latest mysql). So haven’t been able to upgrade there.
Working on new pages now on a test site at the new server ( http://u2841317.isphuset.no/ )
2a. Should I then move my old forum to the same new server? Then I can see how fast it is and see if everything works at the new place? Move all the images? The forum is here now: http://www.bio.no/enbiolog/ and works very well at kiwihosting. Feel my new testforum is much slower. But it could be the server.
OR 2b. Should I leave my old forum where it is until my new forum is launched?
3. And the big question... How to move the activity from my old forum to my new one?
Wonder if it was silly to make a copy of the old forums content and test with that on my test site (as I did)?
Test forum: http://web.u2841317.isphuset.no/sporenbiolog/
I should test the email notification on my testforum. But there is no email connected to the test site (I think) and then I don't wan't to send email to the members.
you can send a test email from the email setup page in admin options to check it works. but yes, difficult to test without sending emails to people otherwise. (other than perhaps reseting all the email addresses in the mebres table to something else)