I wish to keep the migration as smooth as possible for the end user and looking for a quick fix on how to transfer the user table and including their current passwords to the new system.
There isn’t one. :/
upgrading is not a choice
See I know you said that, and I’m not gonna ask why, but the thing is that when you DON’T upgrade, you have to manually copy over the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables over. THAT should (hopefully) keep passwords etc the same, but it may screw up access, since your tables are referencing sites that don’t exist anymore.
You get to experiment! Lucky you!
While upgrading from that far back would not be pleasant, it should have less issues in trying to dump the old data into a new setup.
All the old versions of mu are still available. You’d upgrade to 2.8, then 2.9, THEN 3.0. then the latest.
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Aircut
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I know you said that, and I’m not gonna ask why,
well, the current MU system is a sub-directory install and the multisutes are on a sub-domains.
i have installed a fresh wp3.1 in a parallel subdirectory, with the must to be sub-directories based blogs setup.
i moved those plugins that still functions, and found replacements for those who expired.
i will manually set up each blog and user (yes, lot of works – over 150) than will export each old blog to a XML file and use the import to bring it to the new system, bringing the pictures and attachments to the new location
than i will create a redirection rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (.*).mydomain.com
RewriteRule ^oldblogs/%1/(.*) http://mydomain.com/blog/%1/$1 [R=301,L]
to redirect traffic from the old subdomain system to the new subfolder system
can anyone suggest a better plan?
Duplicate the database and changing the URLs in a massive search and replace might be … easier? Honestly, if you know what you need to do, with the new plugins etc, you could just make a good backup and upgrade in situ.
