I have seen many post and articles on migrating XOOPS. Migration including the site as well as the database.

I am a little confused because most of the post say that the XOOPS host and database values are in mainfile.php. However; when I look at MAINFILE.PHP I see:

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// XOOPS is not installed yet.
if(! defined('XOOPS_INSTALL')){
header('Location: install/index.php');
}

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How specifically do I change the XOOPS database name?

Is there a central location or file that contains all of the changable values necessary to migrate to another host?

If so where?

What is the procedure?

Thanks.

Don

The values are written to mainfile.php during the installation phase (which is why it needs to be writable during installation)

So download the mainfile.php from the root of the old site, modify the values and upload it to the new site.

^^^time warp. I love those simulposts...

Quote:

you see that on a site that isn't installed yet, just like it says.

Look on a site that IS installed and you can easily see the db, name, password, and more settings. That is the file you *might* have to change to match any differences with the new location.