Talk:Moodle migration

Does anyone know why there is no mention of changing dirroot on this page? --Richard Enison 18:02, 26 December 2007 (CST)

The difficulty in migrating Moodle from one URL to another is to get the database right. But it might be a pitfall when you do not check your dirroot, datafolder etc too. Please feel free to add anything you feel appropriate to this page - it's a wiki :-) --Koen roggemans 06:20, 27 December 2007 (CST)

sed line incorrect

I'm completely new here so I don't want to just start coming in and making changes but the sed command for swapping the url in the mysqldump output is incorrect.

Currently it reads:

#sed -e 's/oldserver.com/newserver.com/' oldmysqldump.sql > newmysqldump.sql

This will work but it will only substitute the first instance of newserver.com on each line. It's possible for the mysqldump to leave several instances on a line so you could get an invalid database.

The correct version would be:

#sed -e 's/oldserver.com/newserver.com/g' oldmysqldump.sql > newmysqldump.sql

Note that the -e is not actually necessary with only a single substitution, but it doesn't cause any harm so I've left this unaltered.

Should I go ahead and amend the wiki?

-Taliesin Nuin.