Advice when moving server

**glennybee** · 10-12-2008, 10:49 PM

Hi folks,

I'm trying to move my forum to my new VPS and having a few problems. Obviously my other hosting is still running the forum is not offline.

I tar'd my /forums folder using SSH on my old hosting.
I used 'scp' to transfer the tar to my new VPS.
I untar'd the /forums folder to the /public_html folder on my new VPS.
I've created a new mysql database on the VPS then restored a backup of my database.
I've edited the config.php file to reflect the new database name and new forum path.
I've edited the vbseo_config.php file to reflect the new forum path.

I'm using the ip address until I transfer the DNS, i.e. hxxp://ip.address.of.vps/~user_account/forums.

I'm getting a 404 error, can't fine /home/xxxx/public_html/forums/vbseo.php.

The path to that location is correct. I recopied the vbseo.php file using ascii mode via ftp but still same. I chown'd all files to the account holder, still same.

Is there anything that I've missed?

The vBadvanced CMPS page loads fine but not the /forums.

Thanks for any advice!

**glennybee** · 10-13-2008, 12:16 AM

Apparently vBSEO only works on the url which is specified in the license.

I've opened a ticket to get the new ip address added to the license so hopefully that will work.

**Cerberus** · 10-13-2008, 08:48 AM

An easier way next time is to tar everything up..And then on theother server just use wget...And pull it over..Its quicker

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**glennybee** · 10-13-2008, 09:09 AM

I did tar everything first.

To be honest Blake, the 'scp' command transferred it from my current hosting direct to my new VPS at around 6-7MB/s. It's a 2GB file and it was there in only a few minutes.

**Cerberus** · 10-13-2008, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glennybee

I did tar everything first.

To be honest Blake, the 'scp' command transferred it from my current hosting direct to my new VPS at around 6-7MB/s. It's a 2GB file and it was there in only a few minutes.

That is not that bad...Sounds like about the same...I have done it with super huge site backups with wget and find it works very fast...But if it only took short time..Prolly not much difference....Though when I get new server I like poking around in the ssh make sure everything is how I want it

**glennybee** · 10-13-2008, 12:27 PM

Still can't get this to work.

If I comment out these lines in the .htaccess file the forums work ok.

Code:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)
RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*.php(/.*)?)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]

I've created a ticket at vbseo again and I've asked my host of mod_rewrite is installed they say it is enabled. Need to wait on vbseo getting back to me.

Very annoying! Not a great start to my VPS experience!

**Cerberus** · 10-13-2008, 02:11 PM

Do you have vbseo installed and turned on in the panel? And do you have all the plugins turned on or disabled?

That should work. Unless maybe you changed the name of your admin/ mod folders...Then you would have to change the code there to reflect the new folder names...

Also maybe you should check your php info in admincp And see if everything you need is working

**glennybee** · 10-13-2008, 02:30 PM

Thanks Blade, I'll check those out.

It's an exact clone of my normal site (files + database) all I've edited is the database name and username in the config.php and vbseo_config.php files.