can Duplicator handle different collation methods between MySQL versions?

  • Resolved Robert Trevellyan

    (@trevellyan)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    I’m attempting to migrate a site from a local build environment (MySQL 5.5.43) to a live server using Duplicator. I have done this successfully many times (thanks for the plugin!) Unfortunately the deployment is failing now because the older version of MySQL (5.1.56) on the hosting account doesn’t support utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation. I guess this has only just become an issue because earlier versions of WordPress didn’t make use of multibyte collation support.

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  • Thread Starter Robert Trevellyan

    (@trevellyan)

    I would expect this problem to occur any time the original text is actually using multibyte characters. In this case, you need a smarter solution than the simple script above.

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