Migrating from Joomla 1.0 to Joomla 1.5

Saturday, 26 April 2008 16:46

Well I must say it was a road to hell. No kidding. I had to do so much trial and errors all the time. Test, test and test again. First of all I used the migration tool, that pulled all the old information from the Joomla 1.015. Then I installed the fresh Joomla 1.5 in the separate folder. I used that migration file to import in my new Joomla 1.5 install.

I had to do some major overhaul with my template. I used to have a template with tables, but I said to myself why don't I make a table less template just for fun. So I did it, I used only divs instead of tables.

I had to use the new markup for the php code in the template, that was fun also, NOT.

After that I installed the SEO component.

This was a major problem for me. First I used Smartsef, that did not work. Later I turned to my friend Shumisha, who made sh404 component and this works like it should. I was still having problems with the urls and other minor stuff.

But I did not ask on forums, because I though the component was just not developed well yet. SO I went back and forth with trying sh404 and smartsef, and finally with the help of Shumisha I tuned it correctly.

I wanted to have _ instead of - in my urls, so I had to set to tell sh404 to pull the data from title of the page instead of title alias. In first case you get urls with _ and in second you get urls with -. So I did not want that Google penalizes me for duplicate content because if you change all the urls Google will think you have 2 duplicate pages for each content page.

So I fixed that. I still have some glitches with Gallery, but this one looks much nicer.

Joomla 1.5 migration was not fun. It was a major problem, but at least now I know how to do it correctly. Well everybody learns through trial and error.

Tuning out...........