Why Migrate to Drupal?
Drupal is a popular open-source content management system (CMS) for running a large website publishing digital contents. The CMS architecture of Drupal make it flexibile and scalable for websites of all types, from bloggers to enterprise-level. Drupal has a much smaller market share but it’s used by more high-traffic websites.
Drupal has several advantages over other CMS, which include:
- More flexible custom content types and content views
- Better user role and permission controls
- Built-in support for multilingual websites
- More flexible taxonomy system for handling large amounts of content
Things to Keep in Mind for Migration a Webiste to Drupal
Follow a thumbrule before you start the migration process, take an backup of your website folder to ensure you can role back in case of worst situation.
Apart from regular migration there are numerous benefits of initiating the website migration process. We’ll look at few process's that have added the advantages like the website performance improves, increases its security, and with the programming standards.
Note that you won't match the existing theme features exactly with Drupal CMS rather it give you another starting point, especially if a agency is helping in migration. Release of recently built version have some of the built-in functionality, in that case you’ll need much custom-coded.
Simple Steps Migrating to Drupal
Drupal an excellent choice for anyone looking to protect their website and their users' data from cyber threats. Here is what you need to migrate to Drupal, you’ll need to do the following steps:
- Back Up Your Website's Data
- Export content in XML format from your existing CMS.
- Identify list of Modules And Plugins on your website
- Choose the right Hosting Provider and Plan
- Choose & Install Drupal latest version on server.
- Install the WordPress Migrate module in Drupal
- Import Your Website's Data Into Drupal
- Customize Your Drupal Website
- Test Your Website's Functionality
- Check Your Website's SEO
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On the new site Now you need to reverse the process on the new site.
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1.Upload or copy the whole Drupal code – core, modules, themes – to the new site. Or reconstruct from fresh copies if you prefer. Some people install a new Drupal core first to test the server environment
2.Upload or copy the files directory and any similar directories (such as image galleries) to the location you chose when editing the .sql file
3.Create the empty database Drupal will use. Your hosting company may require that all your database user begin with "yourName_". In some configuration, the database manager provided in CPanel has (stupidly) enable to manage databases created directly with phpMyAdmin, so you won't be able to give any user the right to use it. If you're sure you are not concerned with this problem, you can of course create and fill the database at the same time (See below).
4.Upload and import your SQL data. If you cannot create databases yourself, you may have to use some other tool on your host's control panel or get someone to do this for you. If this is the case, remove any “create database” lines from the .sql file (but a "create database if not exists" line doesn't matter). You will probably find that the database is too big to upload using phpMyAdmin. Some hosting providers give access to MySQL Administrator, which accepts big files. If you have an SSH access, a 3rd solution is to use MySQL from a text console: "mysql --user=user_name --password=your_password database_name" and inside the “source” command: "source database_backup.sql".
5.Create the database user Drupal will use. Your hosting company may require that all your database users begin with "yourName_". Moreover, they may limit the numbers of characters. Grant this user the SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, DROP, INDEX, ALTER, CREATE_TMP_TABLE and LOCK_TABLES privileges for the said database.
6.Make changes to the “Database settings” section of the settings.php file, to ensure that they are pointing to the new database, with the right user (which may be different that the one you used on the old computer) and the right password. You may also have to adjust the “base URL” if you are moving between a sub-domain and a domain level. If you are moving the site to a new domain, or to localhost, also check that "$cookie_domain" is not set to your old domain.
7.Some people will need to make changes to the rewrite rules and. htaccess files
8.Attempt to log on to the new site. You will probably find that you are locked out by a combination of site maintenance mode and the non-clean URLs. In that case navigate to newsite/?q=user to login, then turn on clean URLs. (Should the Clean URL test fail at this stage, try to go online first - step 14 - and then run the Clean URL test again).
9.You will need to make adjustments to the site information (Administer → Site configuration → Site information), which contains an email address, and change the files directory (www.example.com/admin/settings/file-system) to the location where the files now reside. Also change the temp folder to the correct location on the new server, if it is different.
10.Adjust modules as necessary for different versions. For example, I had an unintended upgrade from PHP 5.2.8 to 5.3.0 and some modules stopped working. This produced large swathes of error messages at odd points. I searched for all the error messages online to see whether each was known, which helped solve most problems. I had to make the following changes:
- Set date.timezone = UTC in the php.ini file (and note that there may be two of these files, one for command line use and one for Apache use – you need the Apache one)
- Apply patch 6.x-2.x-549884-30.patch to the date module
- Use 6.x-3.x-dev instead of 6.x-3.0-alpha3 for the admin_menu module
- Delete the coder module, which would not work with Drush (but I am not sure that this was part of the same problem)
11.Check the status report: Administer → Reports → Status report. And run Cron manually by clicking if suggested by Drupal.
12.Your new site will now look and function virtually identically to the old one – you might consider changing the theme or theme color on one of them as a strong visual reminder of which is which
13.Adjust the performance parameters according to your needs: Administer → Site configuration → Performance.
14.After checking everything you can turn off site-maintenance mode: in Administer → Site configuration → Site maintenance, choose "On line".
15.Set up the cron job, as explained there. Note that this cron can run on any computer online, including your personal computer, not necessarily the server where your Drupal is running. Just check the chosen computer is usually turned on and online at the time(s) you programmed the cron job. If your hosting provider doesn't allow you to use cron and you don't have any computer to do the job, use Poormanscron module or EasyCron module.
16.If your new Drupal site is intended to be public, i.e. To be on the world wide web, it's now time to set the DNS (domain name server) to the IP (internet protocol number) of your new server. For this, contact your domain name registrar. If your new hosting provider manages it for you, contact them instead. If your Drupal site was already on the web and you're migrating from a public server to another one, then you may want or have to change registrar too. In this case, first read carefully the contract with the new registrar. Then it's recommended to update the DNS in the old registrar's database (so that it points towards the new server) before changing registrar. Depending on the TLD (top level domain), it's probable you'll then need a code called "EPP code", "authorization code", or "Auth code". Ask it to your old registrar, or to your old hosting service if the latter used to manage the DNS for you. Then give this code to the new registrar (possibly via the new hosting provider) and wait, usually 5 d (five days). If you're sure you can do it within the transfer delay, you can launch the registrar changing process before all the other steps, but if it happens the transfer is done before you've finished, your website will be unavailable to the public during that time
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