Moodle: Clone Site
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If you have shell access on both servers, here is a quick command-line based method.
- Set up a new empty database on the new server.
- Place your existing Moodle site into maintenance mode.
- Login to shell on the old existing server.
- Use rsync to copy moodledata and public_html or moodle folders (or whatever directory your Moodle install is in) to the new server - execute (replacing caps with your details; SOURCE = the directory you want to copy) for each directory:
rsync -av -e ssh SOURCE/ USERNAME@NEW_SERVER.COM:/PATH/TO/DESTINATION/
- Dump existing database and move and import into database on new server by executing:
mysqldump --allow-keywords --opt -uMySQL_USERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE | ssh USER@DOMAIN "mysql -uMySQL_USERNAME -pPASSWORD DATABASE"
- Replace any links in the database that contain the full site URL:
#sed -e 's/oldserver.com/newserver.com/g' oldmysqldump.sql > newmysqldump.sql
- On the new server, update config.php with relevant details where applicable (e.g. database name and user details, the wwwroot and the dataroot).
- Check ownership and permissions are correct on both moodle code and moodleData directories.
- Make sure everything is working.
Takes about 15 minutes for a small site. However, transferring several Gigabytes of data for a larger site can take hours depending on your network connection and hard drive read/write speed.