Migrating content from V2 to new Open Source
How Do I?
Hi Guys
We have an EE site built on v2.10.1 and it’s creaking at the seams. The site was designed and developed by an external agency about 4 years ago before my time began here. I am a Wordpress veteran, but before we make the decision to move over to Wordpress, we have been considering re-building the site on the new EE open source platform.
I guess my question to you all is, what is the process of migrating the content from an old version to the new open source. Are there any drawbacks? - or is it just an EE install on a new server and copy the content over?
Your comments, advice would be greatly appreciated.
regards Naomi -
the process would look like:
go from EE 2 > EE 3. That was a major change and you need to sort that out before jumping to five. you also have to make sure any add-ons are updated in the right order. it’s a bit of a pain.
and then you need to check your server to make sure it’s running appropriate versions of PHP and MySQL, as well as some other optional apache configurations.
and then you can go from EE 3 > EE 5 (again making sure your add-ons are up to date)
In theory it’s not terrible, but I’ve hit a snag myself upgrading from EE 3 to EE 5 and I can’t figure it out for the life of me.