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joomla:restore_joomla_2.5_site_from_backup_and_migrate_it_to_joomla_3
  1. on your host create aliases for your domain to docker machine
  2. create virtual host on docker httpd
  3. restore files
  4. restore database and create user according to configuration.php
  5. change configuration.php to conenct to localhost
  6. look in error.log for different issues
    1. if no other solution, overwrite all install dir with a clean joomla
  7. backup dir/database as we will migrate it
  8. prepare apache/database/dir to keep previous site available for reference
  9. follow https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla_2.5_to_3.x_Step_by_Step_Migration (remember to disable plugin rememberMe)
  10. go to GlocalConfiguration/ServerSettings and set errorReporting to Maximum
  11. Common issues:
    1. add define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR); to index.php such old templates can work
    2. replace JParameter with JRegistry
  12. upload dir az zip + database, remove garbage
joomla/restore_joomla_2.5_site_from_backup_and_migrate_it_to_joomla_3.txt · Last modified: 2017/01/30 08:32 by cipibad