Moving a Group-Office installation to another location

To move Group-Office to another location move all files and the database into the new folder.

Note: All the directories here are examples. They are probably different in your case.

Packing up files at the old server

Create an archive of the Group-Office files:

$ tar czf groupoffice-scripts.tar.gz /var/www/groupoffice

Now determine where user files are stored:

$ cat /var/www/groupoffice/config.php | grep local_path
$config['local_path']='/var/www/go-local/';

And the same goes for these files:

$ cat config.php | grep file_storage_path
$config['file_storage_path']='/home/groupoffice/';

Now create archives of these paths (It might be that the local path is inside the Group-Office scripts directory. In that case you can skip the creation of the local archive):

$ tar czf groupoffice-local.tar.gz /var/www/go-local
$ tar czf groupoffice-files.tar.gz /home/groupoffice

This command outputs the database parameters:

$ cat config.php | grep db

$config['db_type']='mysql';
$config['db_host']='localhost';
$config['db_name']='groupoffice';
$config['db_user']='groupoffice';
$config['db_pass']='password';

Now create a dump of the database:

$ mysqldump groupoffice -u groupoffice -p > groupoffice-20070813.sql

You might want to tar this file up to save bandwidth:

tar czf groupoffice-database.tar.gz groupoffice-20070813.sql

Now we packed up all nessecary files in archives:

groupoffice-scripts.tar.gz
groupoffice-files.tar.gz
groupoffice-local.tar.gz
groupoffice-database.tar.gz

Important: If you are going to hand over these files to another person to complete the migration on another server, make sure you mention the old file_storage_path. It's necessary to move the filesystem shares!

Installing the old files on the new server

Unpack the scripts, files and local archive in the new location:

$ cd /var/www/groupoffice
$ tar zxf groupoffice-scripts.tar.gz

$ cd /home/groupoffice
$ tar zxf groupoffice-files.tar.gz

$ cd /var/www/go-local
$ tar zxf groupoffice-local.tar.gz

Create a new database for Group-Office:

$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE groupoffice;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON groupoffice.* TO 'groupoffice'@'localhost'
-> IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass' WITH GRANT OPTION;

If the filesystem paths of the files are different then you need to perform two queries on the database to preserve the file permissions and links:

mysql> UPDATE fs_links SET path=replace(path, '/old/file_storage_path/','/new/file_storage_path/');
mysql> UPDATE fs_shares SET path=replace(path, '/old/file_storage_path/','/new/file_storage_path/');

Now we are done with mysql:

mysql> quit;

If you don't know the old file_storage_path you can get it from the old config file:

$ cat config.php | grep file_storage_path
$config['file_storage_path']='/home/groupoffice/';

Now you need to run http://some_url_to_groupoffice.com/install/install.php and follow instructions to complete the install.

Good luck!