Moving Magento 1.9 from a shared server to AWS ec2 instance

[a97tulsani2847]

Hey, 

I am fairly new to Magento

I have an a Magento 1.9.x stored deployed on shared hosting, I wanted to move that store on to an AWS ec2 instance. I was looking for help how I could do it.

I tried to use a database back-up and taken on the shared server and tried to use to restore the database on AWS server but it didn't work. Similarly, system-back up rollback didn't work.

I have tried to copy the source files from the Magento folder from shared host to the AWS instance it led gave a 403 on the new server.

How can I go about it properly?

Really thankful for your help !!

[Manish Mittal]

Hello @a97tulsani2847 

With this email, sharing few of article to follow:

https://magenticians.com/install-magento-on-aws/

https://medium.com/@egorshytikov/install-magento-2-on-aws-linux-2-d6419c7abecc

https://magecomp.com/blog/how-to-install-magento-on-amazon-web-services-aws/

Please follow these article these will help you to deploy on AWS.

[a97tulsani2847]

Hey @Manish Mittal , 

really thankful for your help, 

One more thing I wanted help is how to go about moving my code from the old server to AWS instance, how should I go about adding my source code and extensions from old server and shift them.

And for the setup of instance, I tried using:https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/Aurora-Magento-Base-Version/B079472YZZ

Image to allow instance setup quicker is it a correct approach or I should stick with manual installation environment setup.

Thanks a lot again !!

[Manish Mittal]

@a97tulsani2847 

You can do a zip and upload over there. then you can extract there the same zip. Let me know if you will face any issue. Thanks

[a97tulsani2847]

Should I zip from root directory and then unzip the whole directory in the new server.

I had tried only use the Magento source code by unzipping it on new server, it gave me a 403 forbidden error when went to the IP.

[Manish Mittal]

@a97tulsani2847 

403 forbidden related to permission issue not related to codebase issue. Please check permission of your files and folders. Thanks

[a97tulsani2847]

Hey sorry for the late reply,
I tried out the process as mentioned
1. Created an AWS ec2 instance with 1.9 base Magento with Webmin and Lamp support

2. I was able to import my database using the SQL dump from my original server 

3. I copied the available source code on the shared server from /var/www/html to var/www/magento (my ec2 instance) , I did since my ec2 instance was serving files from magento folder and I was unable to change to a 000-default.conf file

4. I changed the IP addresses in core_conf_data table in my SQL to allow the IP address of my instance

5. I cleared cache from magento/var/cache folder 

The website still showed error in loading, i didn't get permission denied but just the  'Error in processing request'

where am I going wrong or is there a step i missing out

PS: my website also have cc_avenue payment plugins could the plugins be a cause of the same?

Thank you for you help!!

[Manish Mittal]

@a97tulsani2847 

Please check Magento logs in Var/logs/ folder here you will find system.log and exception logs.

Apart from that you can find reports too in var folder.

You can get some idea what is the issue here.

[a97tulsani2847]

Hey,

I had some success while trying to migrate the website

I tried using a different Amazon Image where Magento 1.9 came installed on fly

Here I move my SQL dump from the server.

And while setting up new Magento store I linked to the database containing the old database files, on my website I am now able to view the products with basic Magento templates

How do I recreate my frontend on the same website?
I tried copying the full source code, it shows a Magento error, i tried checking exception log file where it showed an Zend_SMTP error, with multiple types of the same error.

How can I recreate my frontend for the website, copying code is not working. I guess it is due to some mismatch in values due to a new website setup and old source code copying.

How can I resolve it?
Thanks for the help!!

[Manish Mittal]

@a97tulsani2847 

That is not sure what exact code is there and what is the issue. Please debug or if you have specific error please share