Out of interest.....

[pixelhaus]

We had a server go belly up yesterday and had to move numerous sites over. Interestingly, when the Actinic sites were copied from one server to another verbatim, inc cgi-bin and permissions all the same, it would not work until it had been fully refreshed. Any idea why this should be ?

Out of interest it was a webfusion vps. The mail server stopped working and their tech support is non existent. Taken a new VPS with EUKhost who seem much more willing to help their customers!

[chris ashdown]

The best way to copy sites to another server is to download any orders and then change the DNS and do a fresh install on the new server, I imagine just copying the sites from one server to another buggers up some of the scripts

[Mike Hughes]

I might also be a good idea to transfer any session files, saved carts, 'remember me' stuff (I can't remember where they are stored), etc that might be kept on the server.

I don't know why transferring everything over doesn't work. Maybe the best solution is to transfer everything over (to get the seesion files, etc) and then do a full refresh.

Mike