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Steps for user migration from former guifi·net to networks.guifi.net

Prepare a fresh instance

Over an already existing installationation, open a shell and move to the web directory,

Remove styles

sudo rm -f sites/default/files/css/*
sudo rm rm -rf sites/default/files/js/

Initialize database

drush site:install --yes

Take the admin password just created, and login with the wen browser to the website.

Install migrate manifest module

composer require drupal/migrate_manifest
drush en migrate_manifest

Create manifest

At the web root directory, create the file manifest.yml

# user 
- d6_user 
- d6_user_profile_field 
- d6_user_profile_field_instance 
- d6_user_profile_entity_display 
- d6_user_profile_entity_form_display 
- d6_profile_values:user 
- d6_filter_format 
- d6_user_role 
- d6_user_picture_entity_display 
- d6_user_picture_entity_form_display 
- d6_user_picture_file 
- d6_user_picture_field 
- d6_user_picture_field_instance

Setup source database

At the settings.php, configure the source database. Note that at the source database must be configured to allow the remote connection through the appropriate permission grants.

$databases['migrate']['default'] = array(
    'database' => 'guifi66',
    'username' => 'username',
    'password' => 'password',
    'prefix' => '',
    'host' => 'guifi.net',
    'port' => '3306',
    'namespace' => 'Drupal\Core\Database\Driver\mysql',
    'driver' => 'mysql'
);

Execute user migration

drush migrate-manifest manifest.yml

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