server-migration

Best practice for moving live web apps to new servers?

I am tasked with moving quite a few web apps including the databases to new servers, they are ASP.NET. I was not the one to create and setup these originally so I must try to figure out what exactly I need to replicate in order to not break anything and so the customers have no idea that anything was moved. Does anyone have any tips fo...

Where to get and how to install (or migrate) missing assemblies for ASP.NET server?

I am migrating web apps to new hosting servers, but when I try to access them to test on the new server, I get all these assemblies not found errors like: Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and m...

Alternative to Apache’s .htaccess file for IIS?

I'm moving a WordPress blog from Apache to IIS. It's just for a couple weeks until I get it changed out. But all I can get to is the homepage. Everything else throws errors. I think my problem is in the .htaccess file: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteC...

Transfering site from demo server to live server

Hi guys, mostly i come across a situation where i have to move files between two servers. I usually test my project live in one testing server online and client checks the websties functionality and all. After completing all the task i again have to transfer the contents of the testing server to the live server along with data too... S...

Migrating mysql database - need to change max_allowed_packets without shell access

I don't have shell access. Database of 8,000 database entries with images and max I can get at a time with the max_allowed_packets parameter is about 30-35. Tried bigdump to no avail. Also downloaded numerous other items. Shell access is not working on the server. Tried to change the max_allowed_packet param in php.ini, my.ini, ...