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Resolved F2C Lite Migration from Joomla! 2.5.9 to 3.4.4

  1. Stephen Day
    Stephen Day
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  3. Tuesday, 15 September 2015
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Seen a couple of posts re this, but not sure they answer my issue...

The data in 2.5.9 is on one site but the target 3.4.4 is another site so different MySQL databases, but they are on the same host (if that makes any difference).

The only way I could find to copy the data between the sites/databases was to use the SPTransfer extension. Whilst this seems to have copied some of my other extension data across, it's failing with F2C. I get an error message saying that the column 'sectionid' doesn't exist in the target table (jm3_f2c_form), so the transfer fails.

Also, the 'jm3_f2c_projects' table doesn't seem to copy at all, even though there are no displayed errors.

Realise SPTransfer is not your concern, but I am wondering if there's another way to migrate the data across to the new site? Or am I missing something here? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Stephen
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Stephen Day
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Done it!

Best way seemed (as you said) to restore a backup to a 2nd site and start ploughing through the upgrades one by one with backups (with checks). Had trouble with the 3.4.4 main upgrade failing but after I uninstalled a few extensions that didn't hold data, all went well.

F2C data seems OK :)

Thanks
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F2C webmaster
F2C webmaster
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Please read our documentation:
http://documentation.form2content.com/f2c-getting-started/5-upgrading-form2content
or
http://documentation.form2content.com/f2c-getting-started/117-form2content-for-joomla-3

Going from 2.5 to 3.x as far as I know doesn't require SPTransfer. Most extensions like ours can simply be "upgraded" instead of migrated. Templates of course are a different story.

Regards,
Patrick
Please read the F2C documentation before asking questions! Thank you if you've done so ;)
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F2C webmaster
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PS. 2.5.9 probably needs to be upgraded to latest version of 2.5.x before upgrading to 3.x
Please read the F2C documentation before asking questions! Thank you if you've done so ;)
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Stephen Day
Stephen Day
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Thanks, appreciate the direct upgrade path mentioned should work if carried on on the same site/database, but I'm building the 3.x site in a different site so that I do not experience any issues, downtime, broken site etc. So I need to be able to copy the data from one site/database to another. I'm sure I read on the Joomla! site somewhere that it's best to start with a fresh 3.x install?

Do you think I've gone about the process incorrectly? Is the best way to upgrade the 2.x site all the way through to 3.x? I just can't afford anything to go wrong or hit an issue I easily fix leaving me with a broken site.

Regards
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F2C webmaster
F2C webmaster
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Hi Stephen,

You can best make a copy of teh old, run the upgrade path as described in the docs and than transfer.
There is the possibility of transferring the actual F2C content via XML (see documentation) but maybe via the DB is better.

Please be sure to check author and category locations after migration ;). This is where F2C data is linked to Joomla. It's also probably best to delete the old created Joomla articles and re-create them with a batch refresh after the upgrade.

Regards,
Patrick
Please read the F2C documentation before asking questions! Thank you if you've done so ;)
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