cPanel Moodle migration to Bitnami stack

Date Posted : 21/12/2018

How to migrate Cpanel Moodle to Bitnami stack

In this article, we’re going to explain about migrating a cpanel moodle site to bitnami stack

Prerequisites

We assume you have bitnami application up and running
Cpanel backup files and database copied to bitnami server

Backup Existing Data from Cpanel

Copy the web files and moodle data directory from your cpanel server to bitnami server under /backup/cpbackup-username username folder

/home/username/public_html
/home/username/moodledata

Backup Database 

1. Login to cPanel 
2. Click on Phpmyadmin
3. Select username_moodle database
4. Click on “Export” Database
5. On the resulting page, select the “Quick” export method and the “SQL” output format
6. Click “Go”
7. An SQL export file will be created and downloaded to your desktop. Store this file carefully, as you will need it if you plan to later import the database back into MySQL.

You need to copy this database to bitnami server

Stop bitnami apache service

Rename existing bitnami installation

Upload and extract backups which you taken from cPanel server

Update Moodle variables in config.php

Apply valid ownership to run under bitnami user

Change permissions for moodledata directory and its sub folders

Start bitnami apache service

You should have all the Moodle components upgraded and ready to use.