Migrating from Joomla 1.5.9 to Drupal 7

Posted by Tabestan on October 26, 2011 at 10:54am

Hi,

I have the task to migrate a website built with Joomla 1.5.9 to Drupal 7. It's an old website on a server with MySQL 4.1 and PHP 4.2.

The joomla module can do this but I can't use it. I can't connect to the live joomla DB because MySQL is blocked from the outside, only internal. I can't install drupal 7 on the same server than joomla since it requires PHP5 and MySQL 5.

Do any of you have any other technique for this?
Will it be ok to install drupal 6 on that server just to scrap the content, then move this installation to my server and upgrade to drupal 7?

Comments

Tunneling?

Posted by Letharion on October 26, 2011 at 3:53pm

Can you ssh to the joomla server? In that case you could tunnel a mysql connection through ssh, and connect that way.

I highly doubt the OP can ssh

Posted by sem101 on October 26, 2011 at 6:18pm

I highly doubt the OP can ssh if he/she can't even mysql_connect externally.

1. If your server does not support PHP 5, stop, do not pass go, switch hosts immediately.
2. 9.999/10, your host supports PHP 5, ask them to tell you how to enable it (CGI?)
3. Backup the Joomla site (Everything: Files + DB).
4. Install Joomla backup on your server.
5. Install D7 on your server.
6. http://drupal.org/node/1133746

Thanks a lot, that did the

Posted by Tabestan on October 28, 2011 at 9:18am

Thanks a lot, that did the trick.

gooooood solutions mr.

Posted by alasiri111 on January 16, 2012 at 6:24am

gooooood solutions mr. sem101

I highly doubt the OP can ssh if he/she can't even mysql_connect externally.
1. If your server does not support PHP 5, stop, do not pass go, switch hosts immediately.
2. 9.999/10, your host supports PHP 5, ask them to tell you how to enable it (CGI?)
3. Backup the Joomla site (Everything: Files + DB).
4. Install Joomla backup on your server.
5. Install D7 on your server.
6. http://drupal.org/node/1133746

Thank you so much for putting solutions .

I had the same problem :/ so

Posted by KacperN on January 19, 2012 at 12:37pm

I had the same problem :/ so I switched host :)

Meble do sypialni

even i was happening this

Posted by Marcelino on March 19, 2012 at 6:03am

even i was happening this same problem, switching the host was the only option.