Procedure for migrating HostBill enterprise version onto new server / reinstalling enterprise version without data loss.
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Before beginyou start:
Make sure you've updated to the latest HostBill version on old location first. If you're unable to update (ie: you need to migrate because you use unsupported PHP version), please use this procedure below and step 11.
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mysqldump --routines 1408513157 >-r /root/hbdump.sql |
4. Old Server: If you have some customisations done already or modules uploaded, backup public_html folder
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cd /home/hostbill/public_html/
cp includes/config.php includes/config.php.backup
tar -zcvf /root/hostbill.publichtml.tgz --exclude='config.php' . |
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Note: Consider creating backups of /home/hostbill/attachments and /home/hostbill/downloads folders, if you use support plugin and downloads section in clientarea already |
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- Download latest HostBill version from HostBill licensing portal
- Unzip it somewhere locally on your computer, take entire /install folder and upload it to your new server, /home/hostbill/public_html/ directory
- Visit yournewhostbill.url/install in install in your browser, and select "Update" option to update database to the latest version (replace yournewhostbill.url with actual installation url of your HostBill copy)
- After successfull update, remove /install folder
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