Questions tagged [migration]
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Migrating Craft CMS 2 to 3
I have a craft CMS 2 codebase that a former developer had made for running on our PHP 5 server. Recently, the server upgraded its PHP version to 7.3 so I am trying to migrate the website to a later ...
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Newbie: Migrating Craft website to new host questions
I've no experience of Craft but do have 'historic' (pre Gutenberg) experience of front-end Wordpress. From the Dashboard they seem very different.
Am investigating migrating to new host as we are ...
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Migrate one entry with content from local to server
I want to migrate 1 entry with content (Matrix Block) from locally to the server? How do I do that? In wordpress it is pretty simple, but here I don't find an option. I tried the Migration Assistant ...
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Migration fails during update to 3.7.7
I'm updating a Craft installation from 3.5.17.1 to 3.7.7 and it's failing when applying migrations.
I'm trying to do the update via CLI on MAMP. Here is the relevant part of the error:
*** applying ...
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Reapplying Users and Related Content to Database During Pipeline Promotion
I was on a dev ops call this afternoon and am wondering about the viability of a proposed solution for pushing changes to a Craft product through a dev pipeline.
For context, this is for a big company ...
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CraftCMS admin login page error "Account Suspended"
Our website was created a couple years ago and our web designer is no longer with us. We have had access to the admin portion of our site and this is how we keep it up to date.
This week when we went ...
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Synching content and template files across environments
I'm new to CraftCMS and have a few basic questions about synching contents between local and remote development environments. This has been discussed in other posts by I'm looking for more specific ...
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Craft warning: Tried to release a savepoint, but it does not exist
I'm working on a plug-in for Craft 3. For this plug-in is a migration is needed.
When this migration runs and adds the entries, fields, and groups then the following warning occurs in the logs.
[...
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what is the correct way to programmatically set checkboxes (MultiOptionsFieldData) in a migration? (solved)
I need to update existing entries after the creation of a checkbox fields, to apply the default value to everything that was created before the availability of the new field.
The code should run in a ...
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Understanding migrations and CLI commands
Can someone please help explain some basics regarding migrations and the associated CLI commands to help troubleshoot when things fail? Specifically,
How does craft know which migrations have been ...
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Automated deployment with content migrations and structural changes
In the knowledge base article there are 4 steps described to automate the deployment process
Pull updates for git
Run composer install
Run migrate/all
Run project-config/apply
The problem with this ...
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After Migration from v2.9 to 3.5 - some entries added into an entry-relation-field get added twice after saving
We migrated a craft cms site with 3 locales from v2.9 to 3.5
We have a section with a field of type "Entries".
When editing the entry, and adding certain entries to this field, those get ...
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Kentico to Craft
We’re evaluating the option of migrating our website, which currently runs on Kentico webforms, to Craft.
Do you know of tools and services which make this easier than a re-build?
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Running plugin migrations when other plugin is installed?
I'm creating a plugin (A) that has optional support for another 3rd party plugin (B). When my plugin A is installed, I create a number of tables. If plugin B is also installed my migrations create ...
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Migrating categories from Entry to Asset
Is it possible to migrate content like categories from an entry to an asset easily?
Each entry has an image asset and I'd like to move all the categories on the entry to the asset.
Would this require ...
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Programatically setting dropdown options in a matrix
I'm building a Matrix field from within a module's migration.
I can get all fields setup correctly except the options of either a Dropdown or Checkboxes field.
$field = new \craft\fields\Matrix([
'...
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Unavailable plugin during migration to craft 3
During a migration from craft 2 to craft 3, I stumble in 3 issues with plugins.
Plugins are not available in craft 3. For example,"instablog" plugin
Reinstall paid license plugins.
Custom plugins.
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Migrate Craft CMS installation from PgSQL to MySQL - any hints?
We need to migrate a Craft installation with a pgsql dump to MySQL.
Any hints on the procedure?
Thanks,
Matthias
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Assign a category group to a category field via migration
I am writing a plugin that sets up Craft in a particular way and have created a category field, but can't figure out how to assign a category group to the field, I have the following:
protected ...
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Error trying to run Migrate from terminal on Craft 3.4
I am attempting to migrate the content from Form Builder for Craft 2 to Form Builder for Craft 3 by Roundhouse, by using the following command in terminal:
./craft migrate/up --plugin=roundhouse/form-...
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Sprout Forms migration error
Running a migration from the command line ./craft migrate/all I get the following error message:
Exception 'craft\errors\MigrateException' with message 'An error occurred while migrating Sprout ...
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Text cut off after migration in some fields
I migrated a site from Craft 2 to Craft 3 and on some Redactor fields, half the text is gone. It looks completely random. In some fields, the text is gone. In some the text is about half as long as ...
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Updating old setup (3.0.41.1) to 3.1.0 various errors every time
I'm unfortunately dealing with a very old system that hasn't been updated in a long time. I've been able to update it up to 3.0.41.1 but once I attempt to go any further I get tons of different errors....
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How to create a new site (locale: de-AT) based on another site (de) within same installation?
I manage a website with multiple languages. Each language has its own site and domain. Think: website.de and website.co.uk
I have to add another site with different locale (de-AT) to the Craft CMS ...
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Flush Compiled Templates Migration File breaks Craft Migration Setup from 3.0 to 3.3
I was attempting to upgrade my Craft CMS from 3.0 to 3.3.19 on my production site. I had tested this out on several dev environments and worked with no issue. However, when doing it live I ran into a ...
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Creating and saving a GlobalSet element type in Craft 3
The following code is in a migration. It runs fine and there are no errors and prints SAVED, but nothing is saved in the globalsets database table.
All my other content migrations run fine so it is ...
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How to import entries from Craft 2 to Craft 3?
So, I've been working on a Craft 3 upgrade, managed to set everything up, including configuring new plugins etc. Since I've started working on the upgrade process, some new entries have been published ...
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Only Install migration is applying on plugin install
I have a custom plugin which is added via path repository on local.
I have some migrations in the src folder.
My problem is if I uninstall the plugin and install it again, I can see all of the ...
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Plugin RegisterUrlRulesEvent - cannot find Controller aciton -> 404
The error I'm getting:
HTTP 404 – Not Found – yii\web\NotFoundHttpException
Page not found.
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Caused by: Invalid Route – yii\base\InvalidRouteException
Unable to resolve the request "Expedweather/...
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Plugin RegisterUrlRulesEvent - Regex URL-Routing gives 404
I'm updating a Craft 2 plugin to Craft 3 and I'm having difficulties getting the Regex URLs working correctly. The eocs I'm using: Craft3 Docs
I used pluginfactory.io to create the basic craft3 ...
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How to manage breakpoint releases when updating Craft via composer
When logged in to Craft, the "Utilities" tab will show you all the latest releases you can update to. In some cases, it will report that you have reached a breakpoint release:
You’ve reached a ...
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How to limit sources for Entries field set up via migration
I'm seeting up all of my project's fields using migrations.
This works really well, but I haven't been able to figure out how to limit the sources (sections) for an entry selection field.
I've based ...
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Migration: Removing field from GlobalSet/Entry
Im creating my own migrations to better handle adding/removing fields on all environments.
Is the following safeDown() function the correct way to remove a field from a fieldlayout? It works but im ...
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Migrate forms from EE2 Freeform to Craft 3 Freeform
I need to migrate some forms from Freeform in ExpressionEngine 2 to Freeform in Craft 3. Do you know of any tools or methods that exist that can help me out with this? Or am I doomed to do this ...
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Migrating from Craft CMS to WordPress
I have recently discovered our company website is run on Craft CMS. However, I do not like the system and am much more proficient on WordPress. Is there a way to move our site to WordPress without a ...
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Database migrations on environments - in which env do I apply updates to Craft and Plugins?
When developing a Craft 3 site on a multi-environment setup, where would I apply the Craft and Plugin updates?
Should I apply them locally and then commit and replace the database in the dev env, or ...
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What files do you have to be aware of when migrating (i.e config files)?
What files do you have to be aware of when migrating a craft application from one domain to another? Are the specific files one should be aware of?
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Redactor migration might fail with allowAdminChanges & useProjectConfigFile false
One of the recent Craft updates (something close to 3.1.25) also brought a redactor migration (https://github.com/craftcms/redactor/blob/v2/src/migrations/m190225_003922_split_cleanup_html_settings....
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Migrate multiple Craft 2 CMS sites on cPanel
I am completely new to Craft CMS but need to migrate multiple sites at a current hosting provider away to AWS.
Due to a hard deadline, I have been looking at a lift and shift approach for the time ...
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Should project config be used during development when migrating from Craft 2?
I'm looking for general advice on the best approach to handle a reasonable sized Craft 2 site to Craft 3.1, related to DB changes.
Because the Craft 2 project is live and constantly changing, I ...
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project.yaml stopped syncing changes in the staging process
I'am a bit helpless at the moment, because my project staging workflow using project.yaml stopped working and a) I don't know why and b) have no clue if I can solve it.
Problem:
Until some days ago ...
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MySQL "Access denied for user" after moving to new server
I've moved my Craft 3 installation to a new server.
When connecting to the original database, everything works fine.
However, when trying to connect to a new MySQL database (I've tried hosting this ...
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What are the replacements for the order events onBeforeAddToCart and onBeforeGatewayRequestSend in Commerce 2
I'm looking for replacements for the events onBeforeAddToCart and onBeforeGatewayRequestSend.
I used onBeforeAddToCart to prevent the user from adding an article from different article groups to the ...
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How to get core shipping methods in Commerce 2? How to save an order?
Is there an equivalent function to commerce_shippingMethods->getAllCoreShippingMethods() in Commerce 2?
I can only find Commerce::getInstance()->getShippingMethods()->getAllShippingMethods();...
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Is there an equivalent to IOHelper::ensureFolderExists in Craft 3?
Migrating Plugins to Craft 3 starts bugging me, seems that really everything changed.
Is there an equivalent to IOHelper::ensureFolderExists in Craft 3?
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Craft Equivelent of EE addon CE Image Bulk Tag?
I'm preparing to migrate an old ExpressionEngine site to Craft and there are channels with images that are being resized by wrapping the rich text editor with ce image bulk tag like this:
{exp:ce_img:...
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Correct way to getOrderByNumber() from my Plugin in Commerce 2
I am migrating my plugin to Craft 3 / Commerce 2.
What is the best way to call another plugins method like craft()->commerce_orders->getOrderByNumber($number) from my plugins service?
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Error clearing a field via migration script
I'm using a migration script to clear out the values for a field on one of my entries. The field is an Entry Field and is not required.
So I do this:
$product->components = [];
Craft::$app->...
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Migrate sprout forms
Is there any way to migrate the configuration of a Sprout Form between my local environment and the production environment?
I'm on Craft 3.
Ideally, I'd love to generate a migration using the ...
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Visiting admin brings up the installer
I recently moved a Craft 2 install from a server running PHP 5.x to one running PHP 7.x. All seems to be well. The custom "system offline" message appears as expected when visiting the home page, ...
