Migrating to a New Domain with Single License

Hello,
We purchased a single license of S2Member Pro for our current domain. We are building a new site on a different domain that will replace the current domain.

While we build the new site, we need to install a second instance of S2Member Pro at the new domain. Then when we publicly launch the new site, we will remove S2MemberPro from the old site.

My questions:
-Are there any issues with running a second installation for a short period while we re-create the members area and build the new site?
-To move over the current membership site, is it just a matter of importing the database dump sql into the new installation?

Thank you in advance for your help,
Jenny Arnez

Hi Jenny.

It’s fine to do that to complete a migration.

On how to migrate the site, if you don’t know, I suggest that you get a developer to help you.

s2Member Pro lets you export the s2Member settings, in case that’s useful to you. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Import/Export -› s2Member® Options[/hilite]

I hope that helps. :)

Thank you for your reply and the info about exporting the options. Is there a way to export the username/passwords via S2Member so that I can re-import them into the new site? Or do I need to dump the database into an .sql backup and import it using phpmyadmin?

Thank you.

Yeah, you’ll have to migrate the database with phpMyAdmin, s2Member doesn’t export passwords.