I was on windows and using XAMPP(installed somewhere else than C:/ )
Now i have moved on to LINUX and installed LAMPP.
So, i have this XAMPP folder from windows and i copied the project files from htdocs and now i need the database which i didn’t exported while i was on windows.
I tried to copy the phpmyadmin folder from the old XAMPP folder but couldn’t get it to work.
So how can i access the previous OS phpmyadmin to use my existing databases –
using linux (MINT - rosa-cinnamon)
Thanks in Advance !
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Answer
If you want to move databases between hosts – especially when there are differences in the MySQL daemon version, operating systems (-versions) or storage schema – you should create a MySQL dump at host A and import it on host B: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysqldump-sql-format.html
If this is no option for you anymore, you can try to move the old MySQL data directory (Configured in my.ini on windows, somewhere in the xampp directory) to the location where the new MySQL daemon stores its data files (Normally configured at /etc/mysql.my.cnf). A few more hints on this:
Ensure to modify the file permissions on the data files at the new location that the MySQL daemon can work with them.
On Windows, MySQL table names are case insensitive. On Linux they are case sensitive. Keep that in mind, if your application complains about missing tables.
And of course: Test this with backups only!