Tutorial: How to migrate from ps 1.6 to thirty bees

[wakabayashi]

In this thread I am going to help merchants, who want to migrate to thirty bees. For this purpose I have created a video tutorial. I have created a very simple & safe way for a test migration.

I used cpanel & FileZilla in the video, but you can works similair with Plesk. What I show:

1. Clone your files
2. Clone your database
3. Change settings.inc.php
4. Make the migration

Info: If you want to do the migration on your live shop. You can skip the first part of the video. Just start at 10:43. But I highly recommend to make a test migration before and never forget to make backups! https://youtu.be/LN7KD9W_MY4

Feel free to ask any question in this thread!

Useful Links:

• Info: https://thirtybees.com/migrate-from-prestashop/
• Migration module: https://github.com/thirtybees/psonesixmigrator/releases/latest

[Havouza]

- Hopefully, the general public will find it there ;-)

[alwayspaws]

Would be nice, but it still is good to share it on social media where it gets, or will get, a lot more views. :)

[Havouza]

I only use FB and I doubt that any of my friends will have any interest. However I talk about tb a lot with many people

[alwayspaws]

Hi, Anders! :) I'm glad you talk about tb. If you have a separate business page it will help. I have a lot of social media-related followers on Twitter and a FB biz page.

It seems to me, the more we publicize thirtybees, the better.

[Havouza]

I am old fashioned. No twitter no Instagram no... no... No smartphone no tablet. But I will spread the word my way, I promise

[Guest]

@lesley I also had an issue with going from 1.6.1.11 to Thirty Bees and like musicmaster I was running in a dev subdirectory so that might be something to look at with the paths. I gave up and deleted my version as there didn't seem to be a resolution to it. I'll be doing another 30bz similar to what I had though later this week using this video tutorial so it'll be interesting to see if I get the same results as your trial.

[wakabayashi]

How do you even make a clone in a subdirectory work? I spent like 5 hours with subdirectories and hald always troubles. That's why I came up with the subdomain.

[Pilou]

I always do test site in a subdomain. What troubles do you speak about ? Only need to change Shop domain, SSL domain and Base Uri in SEO & Url tab. Delete .htaccess file et clean cache

[Havouza]

It was sub directory that is a problem

[Pilou]

Subdomain point to the sub directory

test.mydomain.com point /www/test

[Havouza]

Not the same thing. In my server the subdomain root folder is on the same level as the main domain root folder not a sub directory

[Havouza]

In this case it was discussed example.com/sub

[wakabayashi]

yeah exactly. I tried to make it work, like Havouza said. But this didn't work out for me...

[musicmaster]

@lesley said in Tutorial: How to migrate from ps 1.6 to thirty bees:

I saw your post previously and thought it was solved. Sorry about that. Tomorrow when I am in the office I am going to try a migration using XAMPP, 1.6.1.11 to thirty bees and see if I encounter any issues. If so I push some changes to the repo to fix them.

Its really disheartening to hear some I know is a developer having these issues and at the same time not able to debug them. That is what open source is about, helping the community as a whole with bug fixes and making stable software. We are a small team that is trying to bring a software to a stable version. Not a multi-million dollar company that is ignoring your wishes. We want this to be stable. We have a lot of sweat, blood, tears, and our own money invested in it.

We will get your migration working, I am going to look into it personally and make sure it works. But please, don't group us with other software companies that do not have the merchant's best interest at heart. I think that is unfair and I am sure you do as well.

Hi Lesley, Thank you for your reply and willingness to look at my issues.

I had hoped to be able to contribute to TB too, but until now I haven't been able to get a production site running on it. I am very disappointed about that.

I am not going to look for this bug myself for several reasons. This is a part of the code that I am not familiar with and it would take me a lot of time to find my way into it. The absence of an error message makes it extra hard to know where to start. There must be people who know much more about this part of the code and who have ideas about where to look and for what. I would have been ready to do experiments or otherwise cooperate but I received zero feedback. I was very astonished about this passive reaction: for the software that I maintain bugs are fixed almost immediately and it would be unthinkable for me to leave such a showstopper as I encountered unsolved. My reasoning is that for every complaint there are ten people who just silently discard your software. And every bug that you see may be a symptom of deeper problems.

I like to specialize. There are a few segments of the Prestashop software that I know very well, such as the database structure and the indexation routine. Those - and a few others - are areas where I would like to contribute.

[spidawebs]

Thanks for the video. Why do you install it in a sub domain though? Doesn't that mean you have to setup redirects for all your old pages? Can you not just back everything up and run the migration module from your current installation of Prestashop?

[wakabayashi]

@spidawebs said in Tutorial: How to migrate from ps 1.6 to thirty bees:

Thanks for the video. Why do you install it in a sub domain though? Doesn't that mean you have to setup redirects for all your old pages? Can you not just back everything up and run the migration module from your current installation of Prestashop?

The clone is done, because many people want first to test their system, which is highly recommend. If you migrate your live store, you don't need a clone ofc as you said!

[spidawebs]

I see. Thanks

[wakabayashi]

Thanks for all the nice feedbacks! I have now added little info to my first post. So it should be more clear, what the first part of the video is about!

[alwayspaws]

Great job @wakabayashi I'll do more posting and tweeting when my shop is online.

[musicmaster]

Don't forget to re-enable non-Thirty Bees modules. Otherwise you will find that your front office shows only a brown bar as all Prestashop modules have been disabled.

[steve02usa]

Hello @wakabayashi - Do you have a more current updated Migration Video? I realize this is a year old. Would be nice if you had one for migrating from PrestaShop 1.5.6 to current Thirtybees.

Thank you !!!!

[lesley]

There is not a direct migration from 1.5.x you will need to upgrade to 1.6 first.

[Obi]

So I have run into an issue with the onesixmigrator:

I have checked that [allow_url_fopen = On] is set in the php.ini file... but since the configuration page on both the clone and production site say that fopen is not allowed:

I can only assume this is a setting established by the host provider - who I am sure will not change this setting for security reasons if that is what it is...

So the question is: Is there a workaround to get the migrator to perform the migration without fopen() ??