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I made a copy of our website to move to a production server. I hand-dumped the SQL from MySQL and manually moved the files. There are no domain conflicts in MySQL and the site functions properly except for CustomPress. All of the settings are blank in Wordpress and my custom content types and custom fields are missing. The database has the data for the plugin in wp_options (i.e., cp_options, ct_custom_fields, ct_custom_post_types, etc. and the related data) and wp_postmeta for the field and post data. I tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin. The plugin version is identical (complete Wordpress directory copy). Ideas?
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The way I would normally go about it is to install on the new machine with everything and activate the plugins so there's no issue of first startup stomping on anything and then I would restore the database.
but i really should not be that fragile. Especially on the settings themselves. Did you have it on Multisite?
A quick update. After moving the site I recreated the Custompress custom content types and the posts repopulated and linked back up however the content types would not appear in the Headway visual editor or in Gravity Forms using the custom content types plugin. When the site was restored back to the development server I still had to recreate the content types and everything linked up but everything worked perfectly.
The discovered issue was the development server is running PHP 5.2.x and the production server was running PHP 5.3.x. We downgraded the production server to 5.2.x and everything worked as advertised.
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Greetings Kevin,
Happy to hear that you got this resolved and know doubt the difference in environments happens all the time.
Countless times I have helped with tickets where the person builds it on one site or server and then moves it to its home and it does not work for one reason or another.
I suggest that they always build live for this very reason, but hey, what do I now ;-)
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People Person (joined February 2012) Likes (0)
Hello Kevin!
I can't seem to find any advice on this topic.
I'm going to ask Arnold to comment on this one as moving CustomPress is delicate stuff !
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The way I would normally go about it is to install on the new machine with everything and activate the plugins so there's no issue of first startup stomping on anything and then I would restore the database.
but i really should not be that fragile. Especially on the settings themselves. Did you have it on Multisite?
Support Chimp (joined March 2010) Likes (0)
Hey there, just checking in to see how things are going?
If you need any further help then please feel free to reopen the thread or create a new one as needed.
Take care and have a great day/evening.
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A quick update. After moving the site I recreated the Custompress custom content types and the posts repopulated and linked back up however the content types would not appear in the Headway visual editor or in Gravity Forms using the custom content types plugin. When the site was restored back to the development server I still had to recreate the content types and everything linked up but everything worked perfectly.
The discovered issue was the development server is running PHP 5.2.x and the production server was running PHP 5.3.x. We downgraded the production server to 5.2.x and everything worked as advertised.
Your thoughts?
Thanks,
Kevin
Support Kangaroo (joined March 2011) Likes (0)
Greetings Kevin,
Happy to hear that you got this resolved and know doubt the difference in environments happens all the time.
Countless times I have helped with tickets where the person builds it on one site or server and then moves it to its home and it does not work for one reason or another.
I suggest that they always build live for this very reason, but hey, what do I now ;-)
Thank you for being a WPMU Dev Community Member!
Cheers, Joe
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