Switching from Mambo to Joomla

12 years 8 months ago #6246 by theraven
I currently have SEF Advance installed on my site which uses Mambo version 4.6.5. I'm contemplating migrating the site to Joomla since it doesn't appear Mambo is still under development. If I do so, I have 2 questions:
1) Will I need to purchase a new SEF Advance license?
2) Will my URLs change from what they currently are? This is a big concern of mine since we get a lot of traffic from Google and other sites that link to specific articles of ours.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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12 years 8 months ago #6249 by Saka
1) If you go to Joomla 1.0 then no. If you plan to upgrade to Joomla 1.5 then you need a migration license (28 EUR).

2) Most of the major URLs should stay the same with correct settings, some may change which you can fix with redirects.

Emir Sakic
www.sakic.net

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12 years 8 months ago #6258 by theraven
Thank you for your quick reply. At this time I think I'm going to delay moving to joomla since I don't think I'll have the time to figure out how to do the migration and updates needed with the sql database, etc. (maybe next year). I am, however, switching to a new domain. Will I have to purchase a completely new license or is there a migration/change license that can be used? I have about 600 links I need to redirect so that may take me a little while, but I have the new site pretty much ready otherwise (content moved over, etc.). I installed a trial version of SEF Advance today to make sure I had everything correct and it appears I do.

Thanks!

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12 years 8 months ago #6261 by Saka
If you are shutting down the old domain I can transfer the license without additional costs. Send me an email when you are ready and we can arrange that.

Emir Sakic
www.sakic.net

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