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  • August 14, 2014 at 9:34 am #23222
    Richard
    Participant

    Hi,

    I’ve just done a temporary migration while we wait for a domain to be transferred to our hosting platform. Everything seemed to move across successfully and I can see the files on the FTP server and also that the MySQL DB seems to be the correct size too, however, when I try to browse to the newly migrated site I get this message:

    Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress

    I did make sure the wp-config overwrite was unchecked, I can’t think what else the issue would be

    any help appreciated.

    cheers

    Rich

    August 14, 2014 at 9:44 am #23226
    udadmin
    Keymaster

    Hi Richard,

    That’s a message that’s not from UpdraftPlus, but from WordPress (you can find it in wp-includes/load.php), telling you that your PHP installation that you are trying to run WordPress on is lacking essential components for doing so.

    If you Google that error message, you’ll find a lot of guidance on setting up PHP sufficiently for WordPress.

    Best wishes,
    David

    August 14, 2014 at 10:11 am #23233
    Richard
    Participant

    Hi David,

    I think it could be related to the legacy install of WP I downloaded. Basically the site to be migrated is running 3.6.1 which I downloaded from wp.org and installed on the ‘new’ server.

    We do have a one click install script for 3.9.2 which usually always works but I was wondering if the exporting site needs to be upgraded before we do this? If so it could be a potential issue as I don’t really want to risk updating the original site as we don’t have any FTP or MySQL access to put it back if there are any errors (hence the need for updraftplus to export it first)

    cheers;

    Richard

    August 14, 2014 at 11:38 am #23254
    udadmin
    Keymaster

    Hi Richard,

    WP 3.6 and 3.9 do use different PHP extensions for handling MySQL, yes, so that would explain why one works for you and not the other.

    It’s best if I don’t give you advice about upgrading your WP installations, as the success or failure of that is not within my powers to control!

    David

    August 14, 2014 at 11:40 am #23255
    Richard
    Participant

    To update this I thought I’d try our usual one-click wp-install and then restore the site – Everything works fine until the migration completes then we get the same error message. Googling the error points toward php.ini needing some form of configuration – This is usually managed by our host (below root) but had been added to the (public_html) migration from the existing website, I deleted the php.ini from FTP and everything is appearing and working normal, all in new build 3.9.2

    cheers

    Richard

    August 15, 2014 at 7:44 pm #23675
    udadmin
    Keymaster

    Hi Richard,

    Glad you got it working… out of interest, what were the contents of your php.ini ?

    Best wishes,
    David

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