Smooth migration
 

have a VB 3.8.4 fully licensed installed and working. Since I'm having some serious performance issues with my hosting provider and after several instances of no solution I decided to migrate all my VB to a new hosting.

As anyone here may know, migrating a VB is quite a mess. You really don't know when the DNS servers will be updated, and if you don't want to lose any data you have to be extra careful.

So I did what the migration documentation says

- Moved all my files to the new server
- Edited the config.php in the includes directory to point to the new database
- backed up all my database and restored it on the new server

The point is... I cannot get it to work on the new server prior to migrate my domain in the DNS
Servers. I cannot log with any user neither the superadministrator user. It always rejects my login attempts and in some cases redirects me to my old server.

As the title of my post says, I want to do a smooth and flawless migration from one server to the other. I want to configure the new installation as "Board Closed" so that I can move the lastest SQL tables backup to it before opening it to the users.

Can anybody tell me what am I doing wrong?
What am I supposed to do to do a flawless migration?
Do I have to migrate my DNS servers and pray that the whole VB system in the new server works fine as an act of faith?

I'm rather a "see to beleive" man, so it sounds very strange for me to trust in a blind system migration.

Hope anyone can help me.

DEGE

PS: This post is very similar to Moved to new domain; still trying to connect to old domain. by Ombra who didn't find any helpful answers also. Is there any one that knows how VB forums manages its related domains? :(

Yes you need to update your DNS Servers to your new ones that your host provided you with.

@ChopSuey,

Let me examine your proposed solution.

If I do update the DNS Servers with those provided by my new hosting provider, I'm in fact pointing my domain to my new server without any previous testing.

That's what I called an act of faith and a non scientific solution. It's like jumping from the plane hoping the parachute is OK.

Maybe I need to repeat or rephrase my question...

Is there any way to test my new installation before doing the DNS servers migration?

Yes you can, upload all files, make new db, import db, edit config, make sure 777 directories are back to same permissions as they were before. THEN Change DNS.

NOTE: Be sure to close your forum!

@DEGE, where you able to migrate smooth?
I am also facing same issue. Can you please suggest how you did that?

DEGE,

What we did (we're in the process) is simply migrate it all to a test server we created - we copied the entire forum over, including the DB and all, onto a test server that we created on our LAN.

Everything is working there just fine- so it would work well if we would follow the same procedures and wanted to migrate.

If you do not have a local server:
Say your forum is forum.domainx.com - simply create a subdomain called domainx.com/forumtest or forumtest.domainx.com and password protect it- migrate your entire forum to there, and check to see that it works (the page is password protected, so only you can see it).

Assuming it all works correctly, do the same thing that you did.. but to the new host, and you'll be fine!

I would hope he migrated already since he posted that in January. :)
As for the new guy asking I'm guessing DEGE had other issues, I migrated my forum to a new host and was able to access it just fine via the IP address until I chose to update the DNS server. You shouldn't have a problem connecting via IP, your host should be able to provide you with such a link if you don't know it offhand.