The following instructions will guide you through the process of migrating a
Checkbox installation from one server to another.
1. Copy all files from your existing Checkbox installation to the new
server.
The following steps refer to changes to make to Checkbox files on the new
server.
2. Update the web.config and clear the values for the
ApplicationRoot and ApplicationURL appSettings by changing the
values to "".
3. If the web.config also contains a connectionStrings section, change
the connectionString value for the DefaultConnectionString to "".
4. If you have previously activated your license file then you will need to remove the license file from the /bin folder of the
Checkbox directory. License files, once activated, are not transferrable
between machines. Any customer after 1/1/2010 should not need to update their license file has activations are no longer required.
5. Download a new license file from the customer area of our web site (http://www.checkbox.com/login.aspx)
and place it in the /bin folder of the Checkbox directory. Ensure
that the license file has a .lic extension, and not a .xml or
.lic.xml extension.
6. Make any necessary changes to IIS configuration for the Checkbox
site, virtual directory, and/or application pool. Refer to the Checkbox
Installation Instructions if necessary.
7. Ensure that all files can be read by Checkbox and that the
web.config, license file, and all files in the config folder can
be modified by Checkbox. See the section of the Checkbox Installation
Instructions labeled Configure File Permissions for details.
8. Follow the instructions detailed in the Checkbox Installation
Instructions. Go to the step labeled Run the Web-Based Install.
After entering the database information and clicking Continue >>,
you will be informed that a Checkbox database already exists. Choose to
continue with out overwriting the database.
9. Continue following the instructions to the end of the web-based
installer and the migration will be complete.
