Questions tagged [migration]
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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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Migrate SuperTable rows to new entry
I have a single with a SuperTable field with several rows. How can each row be saved into it's own entry, of a new entry type that uses the same field?
Initially I tried doing it directly in the ...
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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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Migration: How to show entry attributes after a migration?
I have created a content migration that populates a featuredDate field value within the content table.
When editing an entry, this value is populated as expected, however, when viewing the element ...
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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.
↵
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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When doing dry-runs of a Craft 2-3 migration, why don't plugin migrations run on fresh databases?
I've been working on migrating our site from Craft 2 to Craft 3 and even our business logic plugin seems to be running well. In order to be sure that we have all the steps needed to get our testing/...
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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, ...
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Unable to add data via migration to a new field
When I am creating a new field (and I've tried plain text, redactor, supertable and matrix field) and associating it with an existing entry type (using the Control Panel to do so), I run into an issue ...
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How to install Craft on live server parallel to existing CMS?
I'm in the process of migrating a large, complex site to Craft.
I've reached the stage where I like to install Craft in parallel to my existing CMS with the intention of allowing users to help me ...
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Migration from “Focal Point Field" for Craft to Native Craft 3 image focal point
Is there a migration from the “Focal Point Field for Craft“ plugin to the Craft3 native focal point? Or has anyone tried this themselves?
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Is it possible to import orders into Craft Commerce?
We have to migrate a CSV dump from a Drupal commerce shop to Craft Commerce.
It is important to import ‘Order Email’ / ‘Username’, ‘Order Date’, ‘Ordered Items’ (Name or ID), ‘Item Price’.
Address ...
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Running module migrations
I must be missing something or not understanding something.
I'm trying to build a module for an install, and I'd like to run the initial migration. So the module initial install migration for the DB ...
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Migrate to a test site
I'm new to Craft CMS, and was wondering if it is possible to migrate a Craft CMS website to a test domain, to do redesign work, before moving the update site back to the live domain?
and will this ...
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Migration to new server, left with default theme?
I have migrated a website that uses Craft CMS over to a new server. The instructions that I followed were outlines in this post: Migration of Craft CMS from one host to another
The domain name in ...
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Craft periodically goes down due to plugin migrations
Our application seems to be crashing periodically, on a seemingly unknown cadence. Sometimes it goes down once every few days, and sometimes (like today, when I'm at the end of my rope) it goes down ...
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Update Asset Index in Migration
I'm trying to index some asset volumes that I'm creating in a migration. These are local volumes which may already contain files.
I'm hoping to avoid the step where I have to manually update the ...
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Add new section in Craft 3 Migrations
I have been trying to get my head wrapped around Migrations in Craft 3 and find myself struggling with added a new section.
I have managed to add a new volume, but not a section. Here’s where I have ...
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bootstrap.php how to include environment variables for multi-environment configuration?
I recently had to run a couple of migrations to move entries from one structure to the other, but had problems when running the migration PHP script being able to get environment variables e.g. DB and ...
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Macro _self no longer possible in Craft 3
This used to work in Craft 2:
{% macro richText(macroParam) %}
{{ macroParam |striptags('<br><p><li><ul><a><strong><i>')|raw }}
{% endmacro %}
{# include ...
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Migrations running on their own causing site down
I'm a bit stumped with this one and wonder if anyone else has come across it.
I've a site live which is using the 'Formerly' plugin amongst others, since a recent update the site has gone offline ...
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Database structure for Craft 3 to import from external source?
Is there any best practice how to import info Craft 3 data from external source, or should I backtrack it from the database?
