 WayneG |
January 31st, 2006 13:22 GMT |
 
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Post: #10455
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I need to move our board to yet another computer (This will be the last move. The IP will change but the DNS and directories will be the same.
I would like to preserve ALL the work we have done so far.
From the previous move, I know that the backups do not save hacked files or all of the settings we set in admin.
I found out you cannot just make a clone of the database tables and the board directories and install them on the new machine.
What is the best way to do a complete clone of the board
to a new machine?
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| Camil |
January 31st, 2006 13:37 GMT |
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Post: #10457
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If the domain and directories are the same, you can do a DB dump and then you restore it on the other machine. It's easy to do if you have shell access to your database server. If not, you can do a complete backup with the backup tool in the adminCP and restore it at the other place. You can copy your files in the in the /conf directory to your new server but make sure that the database access is not encrypted. If it is, you will not be able to copy the conf_file.php to the other server. The encryption system does not allow the move of the encryption keys to another server.
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Post: #10463
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Undoing the DB encryption did the trick.
For the cloning I tar'ed the entire board directory and the database directory and restored them on the new machine (using the --same-permission option)
So far all looks good
Thanks
Wayne
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| Camil |
February 01st, 2006 20:51 GMT |
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Post: #10468
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There is one glitch that haunted me in the first installation, I get this error when logging on after I have logged onto or old Ikonboard:
Quote MessageTo be able to register or login, you must accept the session cookies. This was set by one of the Site Admins.
If I restart my computer and dont go to the Ikonboard first (Which is on the same server but on a virtual web server with same IP but different DNS) I can log on to our ICT board. I assume there is a cookie or temp file, that Ikonboard leaves on my computer, that screws up the ICT logon.
Also when I reported this problem before on my test server, that server also had an Ikonboard on it along with the ICT board.
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| Camil |
February 02nd, 2006 13:30 GMT |
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Post: #10470
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Look for the cookie path and cookie prefix. Make sure that they are different than the one you use on ICT. That should fix it.
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Post: #10471
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the ikonboard cookies start with iB and the ICT's start with the default ict_
The cookies path for ikonboard is blank and the path for ICT is /
The domin for the ikonboard cookie is set to .ourdomain.org and there is no domain setting for ICT
I am still getting the same problem.
What would be the proper cookie path setting for the ICT cookies?
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| Simon |
February 03rd, 2006 10:47 GMT |
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Post: #10472
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Restarting the computer sounds a little bit "overkill" .. 
If you have cookie problems I would recommend using Firefox to search for the problem, you have much better control of them there, and it's easier to view and delete a single cookie for a specific site.
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| WayneG |
December 20th, 2006 22:26 GMT |
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Post: #11093
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Revisiting this topic because I am about to change servers again. I hope things go smooth this time round. Our users get withdrawal anxiety bad if they don't have a daily internet fix. 
We do have several hacks in our board and I wonder if a clean install of the "soon to be released" new version of the ICT board will work with our modified skins?
Still no replies from "r0t"?
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| Camil |
December 21st, 2006 14:57 GMT |
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Post: #11095
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It should work fine. Only a few modifications have been made in the AdminCP sections. The rest of the skins have not changed very much at all.
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