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Saturday, 11 February 2012 23:12

Converting from PhpGedView

Written by  http://wiki.webtrees.net/Converting_from_PhpGedView
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After the transfer is complete, you should check your family tree configuration and privacy settings. Due to differences in internal data formats, the following settings are not yet transferred:

custom privacy restrictions, block configuration, FAQs and HTML blocks

If you are moving to webtrees from an existing PhpGedView ("PGV") setup,

and your PGV install meets certain requirements, webtrees has provided a "wizard" to

help make the transfer of the majority of your data a relatively quick and painless operation.

See exceptions noted below. Please note that we have designed this wizard so as to not

disturb your existing PGV installation, leaving all those settings, data and your website

intact and fully functional.

The requirements for a successful transfer are:
  1. The PGV database and index directory must be on the same server as webtrees;
  2. Your webtrees MySQL database username and password must either be the same as
    your PGV username and password, or if you created a new user for webtrees,
    that new user must also have full privileges to access your PGV database;
  3. PGV must be version 4.2.3 or 4.2.4 (this corresponds to an internal
    "PGV_SCHEMA_VERSION" of between 10 and 14). Newer versions,
    including the current version 4.3 SVN work too, and later versions,
    should they be released, will probably work, provided the data structures do not change;
  4. All changes in PGV must be accepted (as pending edits will not be transfered);
  5. All existing PGV users must have an email address, and it must be unique to that
    user (PGV allows users to delete their email address, or have the same email
    address as other users; webtrees requires that all users have their own unique
    email address);
  6. The wizard transfer process overwrites the username and password you may have
    entered in setting up the initial admin account. The main administration user name
    and password in webtrees will be identical to the admin user name and password
    from PGV after running the wizard. Once done, you can change it back if desired.

Important Note: This transfer wizard is not able to assist with moving media items.

You will need to set up your media configuration in webtrees and move or copy your media
objects separately after the transfer wizard is finished. If you use the media firewall with a
directory outside the PGV root, then simply duplicating the same media configuration
in webtrees to use the same firewall directory should make your media available in webtrees.

Make sure to copy the PGV/media/.htaccess file that was written when setting up the firewall
to the WT/media/ directory as well so the media firewall can work correctly.




If you are moving to webtrees from an existing PhpGedView ("PGV") setup, and your PGV install meets certain requirements, webtrees has provided a "wizard" to help make the transfer of the majority of your data a relatively quick and painless operation. See exceptions noted below. Please note that we have designed this wizard so as to not disturb your existing PGV installation, leaving all those settings, data and your website intact and fully functional.

The requirements for a successful transfer are:

  1. The PGV database and index directory must be on the same server as webtrees;
  2. Your webtrees MySQL database username and password must either be the same as your PGV username and password, or if you created a new user for webtrees, that new user must also have full privileges to access your PGV database;
  3. PGV must be version 4.2.3 or 4.2.4 (this corresponds to an internal "PGV_SCHEMA_VERSION" of between 10 and 14). Newer versions, including the current version 4.3 SVN work too, and later versions, should they be released, will probably work, provided the data structures do not change;
  4. All changes in PGV must be accepted (as pending edits will not be transfered);
  5. All existing PGV users must have an email address, and it must be unique to that user (PGV allows users to delete their email address, or have the same email address as other users; webtrees requires that all users have their own unique email address);
  6. The wizard transfer process overwrites the username and password you may have entered in setting up the initial admin account. The main administration user name and password in webtrees will be identical to the admin user name and password from PGV after running the wizard. Once done, you can change it back if desired.
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