Migrate from Joomla to Drupal
Posted March 18, 2009
on:- In: Drupal
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Drupal is one of the strongest and toughest CMS. Before knowing about the importing of Joomla to Drupal first we need to know about the terminologies of both.
1. Joomla “Template” is called “Theme” in Drupal.
2. Component = Module.
3. Module = Block.
4. Mambot/Plugin = Input filter.
5. Menu-Horizontal = Primary Links
6. Menu-Vertical = Navigation
7. Dynamic Content Item = Story
8. Static Content = Page
9. Back-end = there is no back-end in Drupal, but modules like Administration Menu that provide a similar interface.
10. SEF = Clean URLs (but some docs refer to SEF, too).
11. Section = Taxonomy Vocabulary/Term
12. Section Title = Taxonomy Term
13. Category = Taxonomy Term
14. Introtext = Teaser
15. Maintext = Body (see explanation below)
16. Pathway = Breadcrumb
Here are some steps for migration of Joomla to Drupal.
1. Transfer all Joomla sections to Drupal categories and transfer all Joomla categories to Drupal terms according to their parents.
2. Copy the Joomla introtext to drupal teaser.
3. Copy the Joomla introtext + maintext to drupal body.
To migrate from Joomla 1.x to Drupal 6.x the following is the procedure.
1. First install Drupal 5.x on the system.
2. Import Joomla Sections and Categories there is a module for migration for Joomla to Drupal 5.x http://drupal.org/project/joomla
3. Upgrade Drupal 5.x to Drupal 6.x before upgrading take a backup of your database and copy the files and sites folder.
3.1 Place the site in offline mode.
3.2 Switch your theme to default garland.
3.3 Disable all custom and contributed module.
3.4 Remove all old files & directory of drupal installation.
3.5 Copy the new version of files.
3.6 Copy the backed up sites & files directory.
3.7 Run the update.php by visiting http://www.abc.com/update.php
3.8 Re-Install all the modules according to the drupal version.
1 | dhanesh mane
November 15, 2010 at 3:15 pm
hey thanks a lot for sharing for such a nice information. I have migrated joomla articles to drupal nodes but I am stuck at url formating because I dont want to change old url of my website. please let me know if there is any easy solution.
Amit Nazare
November 15, 2010 at 3:25 pm
About preseving the old urls you can look into this url http://drupal.org/node/570906 . He has given a clear idea on this.
dhanesh mane
December 7, 2010 at 11:22 am
Hey it says that its drupal to drupal migration. I need something for joomla to drupal.