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After changing my web hosting provider, I am faced with the task of migrating a couple of web sites to the new server. A couple of these web sites are phpWebsite-based. Unfortunately, the new server is using a version of PHP higher than 5, which is known to cause some problems with the version of phpWebsite (v 0.10.2) I am currently using. Left with no choice, I searched Google for available solutions. Luckily, the search results did come up with some possible solutions, although I could not find an official migration guide. So in this post, I will describe the problems I’ve encountered in migrating my phpWebsite 0.10.2 installation to a server running a PHP version higher than 5.

The first thing I did was to transfer all files and databases to the new server. After uploading everything, I also changed the configuration file (conf/config.php) to reflect the new server setup. This included changing the database and source directory settings. Then, the debugging part.

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