Hi all,

Hope someone can help me,

I have been working on this problem for a few day but can not solve it.

I have developed a portal system on my development machine, and need to place it on a hosted server, but at first i am testing how easy it is to move the installion across onto a spare laptop.

Attempt 1:
I have install Liferay (same version) on the laptop and install mySQL database.
i have followed the backup instruction but still can not get it to work : http://www.liferay.com/community/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Back+Up+Liferay

Attempt 2:
Installed Liferay
Created a new database in utf8, but when i go the setup wizard, it will not allow me to change the default database? : http://www.liferay.com/documentation/liferay-portal/6.1/user-guide/-/ai/using-liferay-s-setup-wizard

I need to be able to do this so i can move it to a Linux box later this week.

Thanks in advance

Georgie

Hi,
What is that you are getting on the screen, can you please show.

I hope you are taking care of this

just copy the portal-setup-wizard.properties from your local development machine, or even easier, just copy your complete liferay folder including data dir

Dump your database like this

mysqldump -uroot -pyourpassword yourdatabasename > my.dump

Import your database like this

create database yourdatabasename default character set utf8;
grant all on yourdatabasename.* to yourliferayuser@localhost identified by 'yourliferayuserpassword';

mysql -uyourliferayuser -pyourliferayuserpassword < my.dump

I usually just turn the setup wizard off because it really creates havoc to the system.

Just set the following property in the portal-ext.properties file.
setup.wizard.enabled=false