Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Web site migration or copy

In this post I would like to describe a little what is worth to take into account if you to copy or migrate a web site to another server. Described web site is based on Apache, PHP and MySSQL.
First of all transfer files and database. Then give all needed rights to these files so web server can read and change them. Consider copying cron jobs if they exist.
Install the same packet collection as on the original server. I mean packets related to PHP and MySQL.
Check the PHP version, sometimes there may be significant differences between versions.
Do not forget to load the same Apache modules.


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