Questions tagged [migration]
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Deleting old field after migration
I want to replace field X from an entryType by another field Y and migrate the content.
I did it that way:
add field Y in the config (saved to git)
wrote a migration script for all entryType ...
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Craft2 migration to new server - storage isn't writable by PHP. Please fix that
I am migrating 2 separate Craft2 websites (in IIS v7) to a new webserver.
I used Microsoft's WebDeploy utility to move the site files and their settings, and then I exported the dbs from each site, ...
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DDEV and Craft project structure problem
I'm working on a Craft site for a company that wanted me to change the usual folder structure of the project. Instead of it being
-config
-storage
-templates
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-public
they wanted to group all the ...
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Redactor to CKEditor Migration
Since Redactor is abandoned I've moved to CKEditor. There are plenty of entries with external links that are target blank with rel nofollow added. This has been altered (console command used as ...
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Can I empty the storage folder when migrating a Craft CMS site?
I am moving a Craft CMS to new webhost and followed this instruction. I read in another Stackoverflow post and also on this page that the /storage folder mainly contains cached, temporary files. Is it ...
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Content Migration in Craft 4
We are presently working on content development on the staging site. Once UAT is complete and approval is obtained, we intend to transfer this content to the production site. However, we have ...
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My secondary site keeps going back to the primary url after changing urls
I have a craft site that was in developement.
the main site was linked just to an IP address
the secondary site was linked to a url.
Everything was working perfectly, I could see each site ...
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I created a demo site and now want to set live url. How do I do that?
How do I tell craft to change to the new URL?
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Tables not created when plugin installed
I've got a plugin that works on Craft 4.5. It's been installed a long time, upgraded from 2.x to 3.x.
Now trying to use it on a new install of Craft 4.5.10, installing it does not create any tables. ...
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Migrating from CraftCMS to Wordpress (Metadata question)
My company is working to migrate 7 websites into a single integrated website. However as we are migrating this with our CMS partner we are seeing that no metatitles and metadata are being transferred ...
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Bulk Entries Migration works on local, but not updating elements in production
I'm trying to bulk update records based on a condition but the entries are NOT getting updated even though the migration seems to go through. Both code samples below work locally but NOT in production ...
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Programatically enable an entry
I'm creating to updating the title of some entries via a content migration, but this apparently doesn't work on disabled entries. So I'm trying to enable the entries to start, but that is also having ...
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Get default field values on pre-existing elements
related to How can I populate a dropdown via table field type using the default values?
I created a table to be used for ordering a display via the order of the table, with a bunch of default values ...
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Craft CMS 3.8 - Field not found after changing entry type, but then is found after running again
I'm currently using migrations to change/swap content. On certain entries, there are assigned category fields attached to specific entry types. I am consolidating all of these to a single category ...
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How to migrate a selection of users passwords from a Craft 3 to a separate Craft 4?
I'm trying to move a large batch of users from a Craft 3 to a separate Craft 4 websites (only some selected data should be migrated).
Element API + FeedMe looks like the right solution for that, as ...
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How can I resolve this Craft migration error on running migrate
I get
Invalid general config setting: SITE_URL
When running the final Craft4 migration CLI
Any ideas?
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How to programatically disable an entry for a specific site
We have a multi-site setup where we would like to disable a bunch of entries on the primary site only. They entries should still be enabled for the second site. I'm working on a migration that looks ...
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Error when Project.yaml Migration from Local
I'm getting the following error when migrating the project folder over to my live environment. Never had this before and unsure what to do.
error: SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 ...
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After Craft CMS v4 Update: Getting unknown property: craft\models\Volume::settings
Our staging environment update to Craft v4 seemed to work fine, but now on production we're getting this error when trying to send email confirmations after successful orders (happens in the queue job)...
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Save matrix/neo field value programmatically only for one site/locale
During the sample content migration I save programmatically the matrix/neo field value in entry using saveElement method. In field settings is set "Only save blocks to the site they were created ...
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How to disable all entries of certain section types?
I need to disable all the entries of 3 (related) sections. After that I'll be running some imports and all actual data will be enabled again (within the correct sites). We're talking about around 2....
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Best way to do migrations on CraftCMS4
I'm trying to find out how to organize the cooperative work with a project on CraftCMS4. For example, I want to check a branch from a college that developing a new module, and switching to his branch ...
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Updating specific field in from block in matrix field via migration
I'm trying to update a specific field (a dropdown) in an existing block (of type 'subhoofding') in an existing matrix field 'contentBuilder'
The migration itself runs fine, show the new value as ...
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Migrating a Craft 4 instance from MySQL to PostgreSQL
I've managed to convert a fairly basic Craft 4 MySQL db to PostgreSQL using the pgloader tool, which came with it's own auth related issues when running PSQL v14+ instance - see https://github.com/...
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How to create multiple migrations that depend on each other
lets say i want my plugin to have migrations that:
create entry section
create field group
create text field, belonging to newly created field group
assign text field to entry type field layout
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getDiscountByCode(): Argument #1 ($code) must be of type string, null given
I migrated to craft 4 according to the migration guide and everything went well.
Steps to reproduce
Migrate to craft
Add something into the cart
On the Cart template there is the following error on ...
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Migrations out of sync
I am trying to update a craft website.
However this fails.
Looking into the migrations table, there were no migrations where track column is "craft", there were some where the track was &...
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Remove deleted migration content without migrate/down
I've started to play around with content migrations and have been following the Craft Quest course on the subject.
I'm not sure if this is a situation you should ever find yourself in, in an ideal ...
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How to add and run migration from plugin root folder?
I'm trying to add a new table to an existing plugin.
I can't add it to the Install migration as I want existing installations to pull the change.
The problems I ran into:
I can't run Craft CLI (php ...
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migration failed m210613_145522_sortable_global_sets
I am getting this error when processing the upgrade
m210613_145522_sortable_global_sets
m210613_184103_announcements
m210829_000000_element_index_tweak
applying m210613_145522_sortable_global_sets
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Upgrade to Craft 4
Anyone succeeded in upgrading from Craft 3 to Craft 4 ?
Before staging the changes on our dev server, I tried it locally without success. Although it seems pretty strait forward, I updated all plugins ...
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DB CPU running at 100%, Pages Never Load, Moving from MySQL to MariaDB
I've been running a somewhat busy database (~800Mb) in GCP SQL. Due to the cost of it I've been working on migrating to a custom server running MariaDB. Which I'd heard could be much more cost ...
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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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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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