Moving Hosts and Reinstalling Gallery

[uvgoth]

I moved to Zen Hosting recently but made sure to take a full backup via FTP of my Coppermine folder before my old account was cancelled.

When it came to installing Coppermine on my new servers, I made sure to download the newest version first and uploaded that and installed. That works fine but doesn't have all my config settings or photo settings. I haven't played with anything except a few config setting such as putting in my titles, putting in my theme and installing my Captcha plug-in.

I have my original files but I assume I can't just slot in my albums folder, include/config.inc.php or anycontent.php files and get the website back to the way it was. And I dread having to create all my categories, etc and adding titles to all the photos again.

Unfortunately I didn't realise I'd need a backup of MySQL database as well...

Suggestions and any help please!

www.thedigitalangel.co.uk/photos

[Nibbler]

If you don't have a copy of the database then you will have to do it all again. How to move a gallery is described in the documentation.

[RobTriskele]

How to move a gallery is described in the documentation.

Where ?

[François Keller]

http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/faq.htm#moveGallery

[w0kie]

I want to move a Coppermine photo album on godaddy to a new host.  When I go to the godaddy host control panel for that domain it tells me that I have no MySQL database yet the Coppermine photo album definately exists.  Doesn't coppermine always require an associated MySQL database?  It's hard to dump a Coppermine data base when your host hides it, if they are hiding it.

[Nibbler]

They don't let you access the database. Take it up with them.

[w0kie]

David, one of the tech guys at godaddy, assures me that my Coppermine has NO MySQL data base.  He says everything to run Coppermine is right there in the folders.  With this in mind it should be easy to just copy the folders and files to the new host and away we go.  Right?

[Nibbler]

Unless godaddy have rewritten Coppermine to work without MySQL, David is wrong.

[Joachim Müller]

GoDaddy has got a notorious reputation - you might want to search the board for previous similar discussions. If you haven't performed a genuine coppermine install (as suggested in our docs) on GoDaddy in the first place, but chose to install the "godaddy-flavor" of coppermine by using their auto-installer, then you're probably stuck. As a means to keep their customers from moving to another webhost, they won't let you access the mysql table used by coppermine with anything else but coppermine. Therefor, you can't create a dump of the "godaddy-flavor" of coppermine. Yes, this surely sucks. That's why I would not recommend to pick GoDaddy as webhost in the first place. That piece of advice certainly doesn't help you much - I'm aware of that as well. I really can't give you a hint what you could do except complaining at GoDaddy.

[w0kie]

Thanks for the heads up on Gocrappy and Coppermine.  Moving one picture at a time to my new host is going to be hell.