Company & Domain Name Change

[crazyd]

Hi

I am currently in the process of changing our company name and therefore domain name also.
I appreciate it is possible to request a change to my licence for a small fee which is fine.

I would just like some advice on the best/smoothest way to migrate.
New site is on a different server to the existing one and uses Joomla 1.5 and current site is using Joomla 1.0.15 although I dont think this is a problem with Legacy etc.

Would it be better to install a fresh copy of nBill and transfer DB?
Should I maybe use a trial licence on new domain untill all set up?

Any advice appreciated.

David

 

[netshine]

If you are migrating your existing site from Joomla 1.0 to 1.5, you must make sure that any user IDs remain the same on the new site, otherwise, when the nBill tables are copied over, the client records may be associated with the wrong users (thus giving people access to other people's invoices, etc.).

Other than that, it should be quite straightforward, as you say, just install a fresh copy of nBill (or copy the nBill files from your old site), and copy the database tables over. After copying the tables over, the first time you try to use nBill administrator, it will prompt you for the key (because the old key will have been copied over) - using a free trial key is fine while you set things up.

The only other thing to look out for is that Joomla 1.5 uses UTF-8 character encoding rather than iso-8859-2, so if you have any accented characters or special symbols (eg. currency symbols), they might get a bit garbled so you may have to correct them.