Moving servers

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Hi there, I am just scoping out whether SuiteCRM is suitable for my organisation and wanted to ask:

Is it easy to clone an installation and move to another server? Are there any tools for this or is it usually a manual job?

I just want to know as I am gradually building a development version and when it comes to deploying it at our main domain I wondered if it’s going to be tricky.

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It’s quite movable. Normally this is a manual job and involves copying all the files in the SuiteCRM directory, and the full database contents. you can export the entire database with a single mysql command, and import is just as easy.

You should keep the versions matched: SuiteCRM must be the same version on both systems.

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Thanks pgr!

May I ask – is this still the case if the domains are different? Surely there would have to be a bit of find-and-replace going on with the database etc.?

If there is a guide or anything that’d be good to know… again,. I am pretty proficient with LAMP stuff but it’d just be good to see the process laid out to be certain.

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Hi,

Domains aren’t stored in the database.

Please check your config.php file which you’ll find in your www root. and the following adapt accordingly:

  • site_url
  • host_name
  • db_host_name
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Thanks Jan!

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Hi, a small supplement: In case you use apache, and the copy is installed in different subdirectory, then make sure that the RewriteBase directive in the following file (located in the SuiteCRM webroot) is correct:

.htaccess

In case SuiteCRM is installed on a domain without subdirectory, for example: http://crm.mydomain.com then this should be:

RewriteBase	/

In case SuiteCRM is installed on a domain with subdirectory, for example: http://crm.mydomain.com/SuiteCRM then this should be:

RewriteBase	/SuiteCRM