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Mo ☠️ in #general 2019-07-12 14:58:29 (edited)
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Hey guys, a previous developer has run off and left my client with a binary, which I figured out was a tarball, the extension was removed - I think he was maybe making it purposefully difficult to rescue for some reason. Anyway, it looks like a dump of a Linux box, which contained a SilverStripe application (I've never used SS before, but I'm confident I can get the hang of it in a day or two, it's a CMS which is built on MVC design patterns, right? I see there is an ORM, so I'll delve into the code and get a feel for how it all hangs together).
She would like the SilverStripe app live again, so I'm looking at doing a migration (of sorts) on to a new box. It was an existing app that was running and it's just been dumped into a tarball of the entire box. Does anyone have an idea as to where I can look for documentation to get this back online? Any suggestions are very much appreciated.
Cheers, Jon
Woah, that sounds like quite a painful action, leaving a binary
Let's start with docs, there's obviously http://docs.silverstripe.org, but without any background on what version or the custom code, there's not too much we can do to help beyond that right now
Yeah, the last developer was a real cowboy sorta fella, she doesn't really understand much technical jargon and he really left her in a mess. She's a friend of a friend, and I offered to have a look. Upon further inspection, it looks like a cPanel install with a SilverStripe application within the public_html. Problem is, last time I used cPanel was about seven years ago, everything I do these days is pretty much Laravel or Luman & a bit of WP and is either bare metal related, containers or virtualisation; so I might have to try and find someone else to take this particular project on. Yeah, I'll have a look through all the relevant documentation for the next couple of hours and see if I can make head to tail of it. Thanks for the input though @Firesphere.
Well, if you can extract purely the actual website part, you can re-host it anywhere, so that shouldn't be too big a problem in itself
And you could take the opportunity to get familiar with the SilverStripe framework, if you feel like learning a new/different framework 🙂
If you want/need, there are some good folks around here, so you could ask someone to help you (not free, but who knows?) and/or at least give you some insights on what the code is supposed to do, so you could either rewrite, or improve on it 🙂