Move DB to a new host – problems

  • Resolved vegastriguy

    (@vegastriguy)


    9 years, 3 months ago

    This has been a great plugin and it has worked flawlessly. Today, I needed to move the domain from one hosting platform/database to a new hosting/database. (Mediatemple)

    So, I successfully exported and imported my tables to the new hosting platform and I kept getting this error message:

    Warning: Unknown: open(/home/SOMENUMBERSWEREHERE/data/tmp/sess_cb2cb039edd16d33dad766b4f9bf43a4, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

    Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/SOMENUMBERSWEREHERE/data/tmp) in Unknown on line 0

    So, I disabled all my plugins and enabled one at a time….it turns out that this plugin is causing me the problems. I do not really want to UNINSTALL it as I would like to keep all the history in tact….

    Do you have any ideas of how I can fix it?

    Thanks in advance.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/seamless-donations/

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  • Thread Starter vegastriguy

    (@vegastriguy)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    I am still having problems….I am thinking the database table are still referring to an old server path? I cannot easily determine how to completely purge any old references on the new server. Can you provide a list of tables I should be looking at? This plugin has never given me problems but I have never migrated databases and servers before.

    <img src=”http://www.whale.org/seamlessproblems.jpg”/&gt;

    Plugin Author David Gewirtz

    (@dgewirtz)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    The plugin uses a custom post type for donations, dgx_donation, which would be in the normal WordPress tables. It also uses a bunch of post options. I haven’t dug further into the code, but perhaps your migration is getting stuck on the custom post type.

    Personally, for my work, I’ve been using DB Migrate Pro (https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-migrate-db-pro/). It’s not cheap (I got an academic discount), but it’s extremely helpful. If you’re doing any migrations at all, it’s the way I would recommend going. Saved me a tremendous amount of time setting up the last site I worked on.

    –David

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