How to migrate from a XAMPP Windows enviroment to a full linux enviroment?

Posted by juanmol on December 20, 2012 at 8:20am

Hi, i need to migrate a XAMPP windows enviroment with Drupal 6 to a Debian with mysql, apache2, php5 and Drupal 6 running and empty. There is a tool thats help me to do that?

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Backup the htdocs directory & database

Posted by kentoro on December 20, 2012 at 12:18pm

then dump that databasebackup into the linux mysql database
and move the htdocs to replace the linux htdocs directory

you might need to check your settings.php to make the new adjustments for the site.
empty cache and you should be good to go.

Yes: cygwin rsync and drush.

Posted by screenack on December 20, 2012 at 12:45pm

Yes: cygwin rsync and drush. There's always lftp for shared hosts who can't handle ssh. (though I'd rather not use them) I use these utilities all the time, although I've stopped developing on xampp (any windows-native php flavor) Windows non-POSIX paths is too much headache. Check out moving your xampp to virtualbox or vbox + vagrant, an excellent combination.