Migrating sites with a change of PHP

[Pete Jones]

I have a local install setup with PHP 5.6. Does anything different happen at install if running under 5.6 compared to 5.4?

Our development server (where I am migrating the install to) is running 5.4 and I'm seemingly getting 500 errors (possibly .htaccess) when migrating the site.

Any ideas?

[cstevensjr]

Here are some resources that may help you

https://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/installation-moving-and-troubleshooting/page5

https://processwire.com/docs/tutorials/troubleshooting-guide/

https://processwire.com/talk/topic/3113-how-to-transfer-processwire-from-local-installation-to-online/

[flydev]

I run my PW websites on PHP 5.6 and I have not encountered any issue during installation. (somes migrated from php-5.5). Can you give us any server log error ?

Also, I suggest you to double check the PHP extensions between your two severs.

[Pete Jones]

This is my first PW site so spotted the debug config element. Turned it on and realised my DB connection had a '-' not a '_'

Problem solved.

Thanks guys