Xenforo Migrate Xenforo from one Centminmod host to another. Best procedure?

I'm switching hypervisors, and moving from Proxmox -> Hyper-V caused load to spike way up (.7-ish to 4-6, even with more RAM and 4x the innodb cache size!). No problem - recompile to recognize the new hardware.

I made the mistake of tinkering after a long day in a month of long days, without grabbing a snapshot first, so last night the option to recompile nxinx and php-frm autodetected my php 7.2 install as 5.6 and, well, things went to crap. I reverted back to the original VM after failing to repair centminmod, and now I'm looking at just doing a straight install of Centminmod on a fresh VM, then bringing across the existing data as simply and easily as possible.

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Is there a shortcut to doing this, or is the best way to work through the normal install, then sync across files and restore the database? I'd love it if I could just restore a few config files (and SSL certs) as part of pulling the old data off the server, rebooting and have everything be happy.

 

Thanks, Eva.

Yeah, I've been happily running on Centminmod for years, but it wasn't happy with the migration. No worries.