Hello there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I has been a while. I needed to move my web site and blog. Got new servers in the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And of course had a few issues migrating them since they are on WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So buckle up and I will let you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
So I did move, which meant I had to uproot my home network. In reality not so bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, instead of hosting my sites locally I decided to move then to the cloud and see how that went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I went the cloud provider route. Found a cloud provider, cheap about $5 a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shared CPU’s, memory ad disk space (this in my opinion means it is a container of some sort).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since my web sites really do not have that much traffic this is not an issue but if it becomes an issue I can always upgrade!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus I did get me a nice server and install it (went from Fedora to Ubuntu), got no issues, update my DNS settings and iI was ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The question was how to migrate my sites. They use WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two options: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Migrating the whole server meant using something like CloneZilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course I had to test, so using EXSI (EVE would have been also ok however there is no easy way of adding an ISO or a disk after creating a VM, a limitation in my opinion) and did test that I could restore the OS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It worked fairly well, using NFS or adding a second drive and using the clone from an additional disk. However, I realized that it would not work on my new cloud provider since the server is really a container and not a so called “server” either physical or virtual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps could have worked, but decided to use any of the WordPress backup plug-ins that are offered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I tried, All-in-One WP migration and UpdraftPlus. Both worked fine and using EVE in this case I was able to migrate the site with no issue (well until I did for good).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, I did try and failed !<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent a whole day chasing a ghost literally. I did realize it was me. what happened was that when I created the server I went for the latest Ubuntu, great without realizing it would install PHP 8.x, while my server only had PHP 7.x.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After that I downgraded PHP and use the alternatives service, and voila it worked. Either one worked fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, something else came to bite me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was so happy that I decided to upgrade all the plugins, well the Photo Album broke. Why I do not know no yet. Had to restore twice from backup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is an issue with “New Photo Gallery”, after upgrading the plug-in it only shows the “short code”, which should then show you thumbnails. But it does not. I will try using a different gallery plug-in and recreate my galleries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In any case my sites are migrated and seemed to work fine, I am writing this new blog on the migrated site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So there you have it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ciao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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