XF 2.3 How to properly restore a xenforo backup ?

[neelayza]

Hello,

I would like to know how to restore a xenforo backup (the good way) ?

I recently changed my domain name for rebranding reasons and at the same time I chose to run a new VPS and distro : switched from Ubuntu to AlmaLinux (I don't know if it matters).

The new VPS use the same PHP (8.3) and MySQL version (8)

Here is what I did :

• Rsync my xenforo installation from the old VPS to the new VPS
• Removed the S3 adapter (I no longer want to use S3), so I restored the data + internal_data folder locally
• Restored the MySQL backup
• Tried to change old-forum.domain.com occurrences (from my DB) to new-forum.domain.com (as much as I can / found)

After that, when I tried to visit new-forum.domain.com I had a blank page, did I forgot an important step ?

After searching a on Google I found a topic and discovered the command:

php cmd.php xf:rebuild-master-data

This solved my blank page issue, my forum is working again!

But I'm wondering if there are any other commands I should run just to be safe and make sure my Xenforo installation will works properly?

Or do you think everything is ok and I worry for nothing ?

Regards

 

[Paul B]

Ensure you update the Board URL in the ACP and confirm the server requirements are all met for push notifications, etc.

Other than that, if the site is loading and working without error then there's nothing else to do.

 

[neelayza]

Ensure you update the Board URL in the ACP and confirm the server requirements are all met for push notifications, etc.

Other than that, if the site is loading and working without error then there's nothing else to do.

Okay, thanks

 

[Paul B]

You may want to set up redirects so visitors to the old URLs are redirected to the new URLs.