I am migrating the amember pro system from one webhosting firm to hostgator. The speed of web and control panel in hostgator is really much faster than previous one and I intend to keep hostgator. However, I faced serious problems in migration and hours of work with no avail. First problem, new_rewrite was not recognized. This was fixed by online ticket. Second, the paypal plugin seems to disappear. Whenever I enable it, it will disappear again. Right now amember pro is in sad state and gives out lots of errors. Please help to share your tips and solutions on the migration. Are there any specific Hostgator issues that I need to be aware of? Are there any error proven steps for migration from other web host to Hostgator? Thanks Henry
If you can't figure it out, feel free to submit a trouble ticket at www.amember.com/support and one of the support techs will look into it for you...
Got it fixed after hours of work last night. It turned out that Hostgator require very strict permission on files, as well as very exact mysql table schema. I chmod 755 recursively amember "before and after" web fresh install setup in ssh shell. After "chmod -R 755 amember" under ssh, all the errors gone. Merely 755 on amember/data was not enough. Further more, Hostgator mysql schema and setup mysql data were maintained during mysql data restore. No "drop table" in SQL restore, only new non-duplicate records were inserted. Now Amember Pro worked like charm in Hostgator.