Drupal migrated
Submitted by Maurice on Thu, 12/04/2008 - 08:55
Another personal drupal milestone: For the first time, I migrated a drupal site from one provider to another in real-life circumstances. By the way, I transferred from a multi-site to a single site with absolutely no database problem.
Drupal seems to be quite robust.
By far the biggest problem was that the new provider doteasy.com has php register_globals on by default. I had to write them an e-mail so that they turn off that option. It was completely impossible to change any local setting. But they reacted pretty fast, so problem solved.
The other problem was the slow upload. It lasted hours to upload 10 MB of drupal modules. I guess the speed doesn't get better with me being in Germany and doteasy.com beeing based in the US.
The upside of all this is that doteasy have a newer php Version (5.x) than old site, so I could try some new modules that require new php which kills more valuable time...
By far the biggest problem was that the new provider doteasy.com has php register_globals on by default. I had to write them an e-mail so that they turn off that option. It was completely impossible to change any local setting. But they reacted pretty fast, so problem solved.
The other problem was the slow upload. It lasted hours to upload 10 MB of drupal modules. I guess the speed doesn't get better with me being in Germany and doteasy.com beeing based in the US.
The upside of all this is that doteasy have a newer php Version (5.x) than old site, so I could try some new modules that require new php which kills more valuable time...
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