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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: DeTox on October 12, 2008, 22:21:19
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Hi guys !
I'm sorry if the question has been already asked a lot of time but I need some advices here:
I've a website built on Joomla 1.5 (everybody makes mistakes...) and I can't stand that limited group-permissions-cms anymore.
Elxis fullfils all my expectations but as I'm a bit tired of moving that stupid website of mine from cms to another, I would like to know if by any luck a simple (and automatic) way to move my joomla website to elxis does exist.
I've seen a greek topic on that point, but unfortunatly, I'm not a greek speaker... (should I've take that instead of Latin I reckon...)
Thanks for your help! (And sorry for my dreadful english)
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Hi DeTox and welcome to Elxis.
Sorry, there is not an automatic way to move from joomla to elxis.
You can only do manually the following and with great caution:
Install a clean Elxis 2008.1 without sample content.
Take a database backup of your joomla site table-by-table (we are mostly interested in tables with content such as #__content, #__categories, #__sections).
Inspect Elxis/Joomla database table deferences and modify SQL file properly in order to match elxis table's structure.
Import that sql file to Elxis and move to the next table.
I recommend the above only to highly experienced users. Do not try it if you dont know about databases and sql files as well as the way that Elxis tables are connected to each other (i.e. menu with content).
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Ooh ok... (Thanks for your greetings!)
I'm not a SQL expert, but i'll give it a try. After all, nothing bad can happen as long as I don't delete my joomla version. And I'll work with WAMP in local for sure.
I'd raher spend more time like that than copy/past my website AGAIN and again.
Thanks a lot datahell. ;)