I have been handed the job of upgrading an intranet site because I'm in dev. The current site is running under umbraco 6 and I am told it is corrupted. I have umbraco 7 running on visual studio 2015 on my machine. I am required to migrate the site to my machine, make sure it runs, check it in, let the boss pull it and check it and finally publish it.
How may I extract the page designs, content and custom code from the (possibly) corrupt version 6 live site and import it into the version 7 site running on my machine please?
You are not only upgrading Umbraco but you are potentially trying to do it with out the source code.
I don't think your going to be able to get the content from your 6 site and just put it in to the 7 site.
If you only have the live site you should download the files have a look around and see how much of the code has been complied in to DLLs, you might be lucky and find some of the source .cs files in the app_code data, but that all depends on how the site was built and how complicated it is.
If it is a pretty simple site, I would create a new umbraco 7 instance, and recreate all the document types and templates, reusing any HTML razor files you can find if you download the live site.
If it is a really complex site lots of custom code, extensions to umbraco etc etc you are going to have a very difficult job without the source code....as in the Visual Studio solution.
Migrating site to new instance
I have been handed the job of upgrading an intranet site because I'm in dev. The current site is running under umbraco 6 and I am told it is corrupted. I have umbraco 7 running on visual studio 2015 on my machine. I am required to migrate the site to my machine, make sure it runs, check it in, let the boss pull it and check it and finally publish it.
How may I extract the page designs, content and custom code from the (possibly) corrupt version 6 live site and import it into the version 7 site running on my machine please?
This is not a trivial task.
You are not only upgrading Umbraco but you are potentially trying to do it with out the source code.
I don't think your going to be able to get the content from your 6 site and just put it in to the 7 site.
If you only have the live site you should download the files have a look around and see how much of the code has been complied in to DLLs, you might be lucky and find some of the source .cs files in the app_code data, but that all depends on how the site was built and how complicated it is.
If it is a pretty simple site, I would create a new umbraco 7 instance, and recreate all the document types and templates, reusing any HTML razor files you can find if you download the live site.
If it is a really complex site lots of custom code, extensions to umbraco etc etc you are going to have a very difficult job without the source code....as in the Visual Studio solution.
Good luck.
Hi Pete
The best way is to upgrade Umbraco version 6 to Umbraco 7.
Please have a look at these links:
https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/getting-started/setup/upgrading/general
https://our.umbraco.org/documentation/getting-started/setup/upgrading/version-specific
Thanks,
Alex
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