I've moved this blog from
directnic.com to my own VPS. This blog is using
Serendipity, which consists of a bunch of files for the webserver and a MySQL database. (I during the move I noticed that the new version supports SQLite backend, which would have made this whole process a lot easier.)
What I did:
Copy all files from the old server to the new server, using ncftp's recursive mget.
Dump the MySQL database using mysqldump
In MySQL client: create a new database using CREATE DATABASE xxx, select it using use xxx and execute the exported SQL script using source dumpfile
Configure an Apache virtual server for the lunesu.com domain. Note to self: must check Include all addresses in Webmin's Networking and Addresses Apache configuration tab.
Apply the new Apache configuration.
Add lunesu.com to my local hosts file, to be able to test the new site without having to change the DNS settings.
Oops: ncftp did not get the serendipity_config_local.inc.php because it was readable by user httpd only! The only way I was able to copy this file was by uploading a dummy PHP script with the following contents: <? header('Content-Type: text/plain' ); readfile("serendipity_config_local.inc.php");
UPDATE serendipityConfig SET value="/var/bla/path" where name="serendipityPath";
I also had to change some folder permissions: chmod 1777 . archives upload plugins templates_c
The serendipity Weather sidebar plugin failed to work. I read that it needs the PEAR:Services-and-Weather module for PHP so I installed that using
sudo apt-get install php-services-weather. Unfortunately, that completely borked my site. I was able to track this down to a function in Serendipity called get_plugin_title. Apparently, even with that module installed, the weather plugin still wouldn't work. Fix: disable the weather plugin.
