Any problems moving from Linix to Windows server?

[shanesparks]

Hi,

I'm thinking of moving my Sugar installation from a Linix host to an in-house Windows file server. I'm not sure if this is easy, or if there will be problems. Currently using Sugar 4.51b.

Any tips, advice or warnings are appreciated.

Shane

[Angel]

A couple of things that I would keep in mind is the security setup and cron jobs.

Just out of curiosity, what's the reason behind this consideration?

[roblaus]

HI,

I just did that. Not so much because I wanted to move away from Linux but I needed a local copy of my data - as impossible as it sounds - there is not always and not everywhere an Internet connection available.

However, I was fighting with it but finally succeeded. I installed (the same version of) Sugar on my Windows machine, backed up my config.php, copied the entire Linux Sugar directory over my new Windows one and restored the database through phpmyadmin. After that I copied my config file back into the Windows Sugar root and - everything worked. I have to admit that I neither really cared about my cronjob settings nor about the email part of Sugar because I do not plan to use it in a production environment but just to look up addresses and phone nos.


rgds
rl

[pblag]

Hi,

I'm thinking of moving my Sugar installation from a Linix host to an in-house Windows file server. I'm not sure if this is easy, or if there will be problems. Currently using Sugar 4.51b.

Any tips, advice or warnings are appreciated.

Shane

Hi!

BTW: As i know sendmail doesn't exist in Windows so you won't be able to send an email using sendmail.

[roblaus]

Yep, I thought that some nice programmer might have replaced the function (e.g. with some working smtp connector) but when I tried it (out of curiosity) the email showed "sent" but of course everything got lost in in the big electronic Nirvana.

Actually: how DO you send emails in a Windows implementation? Or does smtp work there?

rgds
rl

[Angel]

SMTP should work just fine. I've done it a number of times.

[shanesparks]

A couple of things that I would keep in mind is the security setup and cron jobs.

Just out of curiosity, what's the reason behind this consideration?

No sensible reason. Current it is hosted remotely by siteground.com - who seem okay. But I have an irrational desire to host it in our office on the file server. I'd feel the data was safer, and given the amount of our business knowledge stuck in Sugar, it would be a hardship if we lost it.

Shane

[roblaus]

Interesting. I am about to take the exact opposite road. I don't feel that the server in the office is safe - not so much because of nosy colleagues but it's a fairly cheap machine and I expect a breakdown any moment. I moved almost everything to the web (I am not paranoid) because on this way I have an almost identical desktop no matter where I am, I HATE different environments, A matter of age I guess.

rgds