Is there an up-to-date, complete guide on moving a Liferay Portal ?
How am I supposed to migrate a Portal to another Server in an efficient and safe way ?
I've been developing a Portal, connecting to a mySQL database. Then, I had to move both the portal and database to another Server.
So I did the following steps, pretty identical to this guide
export the mySQL Db and import it in the new Server. The data are moved correctly, as I've checked them manually
Copy a new (clean) copy of the Liferay Portal to the new server
copy the data folder
copy portal-ext.properties, then edit the db url and login credentials
Copy the portal-setup-wizard.properties, then change the 'liferay.home' param to the correct portal path
I run the server and my admin has the default 'test' password instead of the one I used before the migration
then I see that Can't have access to the previous content, like Users, UserGroups, Pages, etc. I Also tried re-indexing the database entries (Users and Organizations, Web Content etc). Again nothing
I also Tried copying the whole Portal, and only changing the .properties files to target the new database and portal path. Again the same problems, no Content from the old portal. It's like I started a fresh portal
So what did I do wrong this time ?
Used Liferay 6.1.0 ce ga1
I failed migrating the portal and had to create it from scratch. Almost 1 year later, i found out what caused the problem. Here it is. To be fair, it's a MySQL issue, not Liferay
The MySql database, since it got ported from a windows server to a Linux one, was exported with table names in Uppercase. When Liferay tries to connect to the database, it will not find the Liferay Model's tables, and will create new ones. Practically Liferay treats the Database as an empty one, and it starts as a fresh portal. I only found that, while exploring the database sometime later, and found out I had each Liferay Table both in uppercase and lowercase.
More info and solutions can be found here
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Power BI Web Service URL working, web portal URL isn't
I had to reinstall Power BI Report Server. I reconnected to the underlying Reportserver database. Since I didn't have a backup of the encryption key, I deleted encrypted content. At this point if I go to the web portal (http://reportserver/Reports) I get this error:
"The service is not available. Contact your system administrator to
resolve the issue. System administrators: The report server can’t
connect to its database. Make sure the database is running and
accessible. You can also check the report server trace log for
details."
However when I go to the web service (http://reportserver/ReportServer), I can browse the report server directory. This information is coming from the underlying database so clearly the report server CAN connect to it's database. Both these happen both if I browse from my desktop or from the browser on the server itself. In the case of the server itself, I follow the links in the respective sections of the Admin tool, so links are correct, and Admin tool is indicating that web directory setup is correct.
Service restart does not help, neither does restart of the whole server. I also tried changing the name of the link (ie http://reportserver/PBIReports instead of http://reportserver/Reports) - still not working
OK I found what was going on. The reason for the reinstall was to roll back from a newer version of Power BI server. Rollback was needed because it didn't play nicely with some other processes on the same server.
In any case... as per MS documentation, upgrade of Power BI server can trigger a (silent, background) update to the ReportServer structure. So after reinstalling the old version of Power BI, I was in fact trying to connect the old version of Power BI to a new version of the ReportServer Database.
Hopefully removing existing (upgraded) ReportServer Database and recreating it from the Config tool of the old version of Power BI Server will do the trick.
I have built a Joomla site for a client on a development server. It soon needs migrating to the client's Live site, which will mean a URL change as well as a physical server change.
I'm new to Joomla, but having worked a lot on WordPress previously I know it's a piece of cake to migrate one WP site to another, especially with the dozen or so available plugins.
However, this doesn't appear to be so easy on Joomla. I have searched for the best practice to achieve this with Joomla 3 but cannot find what I need.
Does anyone have a suggestion for this?
There are in fact a two ways to achieve this and they are quite easy.
1. The first one is the manual way, that is:
Copy the files of your local joomla installation and upload them to
your server
Export your local database and import it on your server.
Edit the configuration.php file to your new server credentials -db
name, db user, db server etc.
2. The second one is through the akeeba backup component.
In this case you create a backup and then restore it on the remote
server. Detailed info
here.
After uploading your remote site you are advised to follow these
guidelines
to secure your installation.
I need to make a development version of a cakePHP app with its own db so that a developer can work on it without disturbing the current users.
I thought it would be simple, I just copied the entire director /project to /project_dev and then copied the DB "project_db" to "project_db_dev". Then I went into /project_dev/config/database.php and changed the db to "project_db_dev".
When I went to see what I had done, I saw the app was still connecting to the same db, as if I'd changed nothing. I realized that the original folder name was referenced in /app/webroot/.htaccess so do I need to find/replace all instances of that folder name?
What steps should I follow to duplicate an existing cakePHP app?
You need to setup some kind of development lifecycle.
Generally speaking the developer shouldn't be doing any development on the server. The best way to handle it is locally using a stack of some kind such as Lamp (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP) switch out linux with other OS's. There are multiple cloud solution to these environments to such as Koding.com
Using something like Git for version control the developer can develop locally then push the code through to the server after is being thoroughly tested locally or on a dev server or some kind.
Keeping Dev work and Live work away from each other is key.
Could do with a bit more information.
If both databases are hosted on the same server and you have permission to access them both with the same user then all you have to do is change the name of the database in your database.php
If not you will also have to update the IP and any other additional settings port etc.
If you are still having troubles email me simpsond1988#gmail.com
I have installed openfire on windows machine and pointing to our mysql database.I have created test users in openfire and testing with xmpp client on my machine . Everything is working fine.
I have opened our mysql database and seen so many tables are created from openfire where tablename starts with of like for example ofuser which stores user registration information.
Now instead of storing user registration information in ofuser ,I want to store user registration information in my custom table like for example chat_registrations.
Is it possible in openfire, if so how to do it?
You can do it but for this you have to modify openfire from source and build the system for yourself. To do this fork openfire from github, clone your repository in pc, open source code with you favourite IDE, then modify openfire's sql queries related to ofUser table. You will get them in src/database/openfire*.sql . Build the modified system and install it to server.
When I was working on my project (asp.net mvc 3) before uploading it, I needed to make it refer to an already existing mysql database. There was/is no option of moving or cloning that database, and I had to add a block of code to my C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\Config\machine.config file for it to be made compatible.
How do I make it work on appharbor without moving my database?
You should be able to use mysqldump to move your data to a database running in the context of the AppHarbor MySQL add-on. Here's a guide.
If your current database is publicly accessible it should also work if you configure your AppHarbor app to use that. If you need to open a firewall, you can find AppHarbor app server IPs here.