Migrating from MiaCMS

The followng steps can be applied to migrating most of the sample data:

1. Install Aliro content bundle (see 7)
2. Log in as administrator - there will be a pause before the admin login page comes up, caused by the installation of the prepackaged applications
3. Go to extensions and delete the GB Theme theme.
4. Install the Borders2 theme; go to Site - Themes - and make it the default
5. Back up from the MiaCMS database existing tables using the "drop table" option: mos_banner*, mos_categories, mos_contact_details, mos_content*, mos_newsfeeds, mos_poll*, mos_sections, mos_weblinks (asterisked items refer to multiple tables starting with the specified name)
6. Users?
7. Either during install choose DB prefix to be mos_ or edit the dump changing mos_ to aliro_ throughout
8. Apply the dumped SQL to the general DB table for the new site
9. Kill off any params values in the imported tables, especially weblinks; also kill attribs in xxx_content table
10. Add to contact_details an extra field cform mediumtext NOT NULL after misc
11. Add an item to the main menu pointing to the frontpage component, call it Home
12. Add a similar item to top menu, and add another item called "Contact us" pointing to contact component, and another called "Links" pointing to weblinks component
13. Go to Display Boxes - User Boxes - and publish simple menu as Main menu (in left position), create Top menu (based on simple menu) - top position, no title display, Menu Name topmenu
14. Publish Login Box Module in position left with title Login Form
15. Publish Syndicate Module in position left
16. Publish Search Module in position header with title not displayed
17. Publish Social Bits module in position header with title not displayed
18. Publish who is online in position user4 with title Who's Online
19. Publish banners module in position banner with no title
20. Publish most popular content module is position user1 with title Popular
21. Publish latest news module in position user2
22. Publish sections module in position user3
23. Copy all images from MiaCMS site /images/banners to same location in Aliro site
24. Copy any images from MiaCMS site /images/stories to same location in Aliro site where they do not already exist