Sites messed after “migration”

  • Hello everyone,

    Forgive me if this not the right place to ask these questions, but I could not think of anywhere else.

    I war running my sites on an old server (FreeBSD-8.4) with WP-5.4.2, MySQL-5.7, php-7.0, and Apache-2.4.39. The sites looked good.
    However, I had to do away with that server and install updated apps.
    So I installed FreeBSD-12.2, php-7.4, MySQL-8.0 and Apache-2.4.43.
    I backed up everything and moved the sites to the new server. Same IP address, same hostname.
    Now what has is happening is that the menus on the websites are messed up. On one site (https://kobelcbo.panafcon.net) the dropdown submenus are floating everywhere and the page background image is not loading while on the other site (https://www2.titan.co.ke) the menu has changed color, such that when you hover over a menu item, it literally becomes invisible. A lot of content at the top of the page also disappeared and alignments went bonkers ??

    I am not sure what is happening and how to fix it.
    Could it be that some plugs are not compatible with php7.4??

    Will highly appreciate your advise on how to fix it.

    Thanks in advance.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    It looks like you resolved this? At least, the site I’m looking at looks OK.

    Thread Starter Odhiambo WASHINGTON

    (@odhiambo)

    Hi @sterndata,

    Thanks for checking. I realized that all the customizations for the site somehow got RESET when I changed the servers. Almost every setting seemed to have been reset to default. Not sure what could do this. So for kobelcbo.panafcon.net, I went through the customization process afresh.I am yet to do the same for www2.titan.co.ke.
    Question then becomes – what actually caused this reset??
    My migration process was pretty straightforward:
    cd /path/to/webroot
    cd kobel
    musqldump kobelcbo > kobelcbo.sql
    cd ..
    tar czf kobel.tgz kobelcbo
    I then moved the kobelcbo.tgz to the new server, to the webroot, extracted it, created the db, GRANTed access to the db according the variables in wp-config.php, imported the db file and that was it. When I launched the site, everything was messed (customizations lost!).

    Isn’t the process I used good enough for a migration?? Or it isn’t recommended?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    That should have done it as the customizations should be in the database.

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