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Moving a Postnuke site to a different database
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  • jeff300
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    Posted: 12.05.2004, 09:42
    OK, here's an interesting one.

    A client asked me to move his PostNuke site from his old hosting provider to his new one. I backed up the DB and all the files and transfered them to the new server.

    At the new service, the database has a different name, uid and pw than at the old service and I can't change them. So, I loaded up all the data in the new database and accessing the data with phpMyAdmin everything seems OK.

    I then figure I have to change the config.php file to reflect the new DB. I can easily alter the dbhost and dbname entries, but how do I get the dbuname and dbpass entries set correctly? They look like hashes.

    And do I need to do anything else to get the site working?

    Thanks.
  • HalbrookTech
    HalbrookTech
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    Posted: 12.05.2004, 09:51
    Get the PostNuke Swiss Army Knife, from the pnDownloads area (http://downloads.postnuke.com) and use it to get the new encoded database connection info to go in the config.php.
  • jeff300
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    Posted: 12.05.2004, 10:23
    Thanks for the super quick response! I got it and it fixed me right up. Many thanks.

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