HOW TO MIGRATE DATA FROM VIRTUEMART TO MAGENTO USING LITEXTENSION MIGRATION TOOL

If you are looking for quick, easy way to migrate data from your VirtueMart to Magento, LitExtension Migration Modules should draw your attention. It allows you to migrate products, categories, attributes, customers, password, orders and other data from VirtueMart to Magento. The process is straightforward and requires no technical knowledge.

1. Preparation

For Source Store:

Please ensure you have the right permission to upload files into

your Source Store

It must not block access from Target Store to the connector.

Source Store can operate normally during migration as it requires a

very limited resource for the process.

PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.3 or later

For Target Store:

It is strongly recommended to backup Magento Target Store first

Target Store should be placed in a stable hosting or in localhost.

It also must not block connection to Source Store.

Webserver (mostly apache) should have full permission to write on

/media folder.

PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.3 or later.

Magento Compatibility: 1.7 or later

2. Setup

After downloading the product zip file from our Store, please

extract it into a folder. The module consists of two main parts:

Cart Migration Magento Module (“app” and “skin” folder) and

Source Cart Connector ("magento_connector" folder)

2.1 Cart Migration Magento Module Setup

Magento Data Migration Module is a Magento Module which

acts like a hub at Magento side to receive data and import it

into Magento database. It can be installed just like all other

Magento Modules, please follow our general Installation

Guide:

http://litextension.com/docs/cart_service_migration_user_guide.pdf

2.2 Source Cart Connector Setup

Extract “Magento_connector” into Source Cart root folder. After

finished please make sure Migration Connector can be reached

at: http(s)://yourstore.com/magento_connector/connector.php

After finished please make sure Migration Connector can be

reached at:

http(s)://yourstore.com/magento_connector/connector.php

For security, please open connector.php, find this very first line:

define('LECM_TOKEN', '123456');

And change "123456" to another string, this will be used to enter

to the Migration Form( Cart Token ) and acts like "password"

to prevent unauthorized data access to your source store.

3. Migration

Please login your Magento Target Store backend, select Cart

Migration > Migration

The migration will go through 3 simple steps. Just hit “Next” when

you finish one step to advance.

Step 1: : Source Cart Configuration

Cart Type: Select corresponding source cart type (VirtueMart)

Cart Url: source cart full url

Cart Token: the token string which has been configured in

connector.php

Step 2: : Migration Configuration

Root Category: the category of current Magento store to import all source cart

categories into.

Languages Mapping: If your Source Cart is multilingual, corresponding languages

( or storeviews) should be available in Target Magento Store. You may need to create

additional languages in Magento Store to avoid data loss.

Currencies Mapping: Assign Source Cart currencies to proper Target Magento Store

currencies. Creating currencies in Target Magento Store may be needed.

Orders Status Mapping: Assign Source Cart order statuses to proper Target Magento

Store order statuses. Creating additional order statuses in Target Magento Store may

be needed.

Entities to Migrate: select all entities to migrate or just a part of them

Additional Options: Clear current data on Target Store before Migration: if you choose this option,

all current products, categories, manufacturers, customers, orders, product

reviews, taxes will be cleared.

Migrate categories and products SEO URLs: if you choose this option, old SEF

urls of source will be preserved in Target Magento Store, allowing you to

maintain your Pagerank.

Transfer images in product descriptions to Target Store: download all images in

product description into your store so that it won’t have to refer back to your

source store or anywhere else for images.

Preserve Customer IDs on Target Store: this will help you preserve your old

Customer IDs for easier reference.

Preserve Order IDs on Target Store: this will help you preserve your old Order

IDs for easier reference.

Step 3: Migration

The migration will take place automatically in this final step. In order

for it to progress, you should not close your browser.

After the migration is completed, click on “Clear Cache and ReIndex

Data” to finish. If you don’t want to run it right here or it returns

false here, you can do that manually in System > Cache

Management and System > Index Management.

4. Migration Resuming

When a problem occurring on the migration process, Migration Tool

provide the ability to resume the process in two ways:

1. Automatically resume on the spot: the tool will automatically

resume after a failure until all data is imported.

2. Manually resume: you can refresh the page to go back to

Step 1 and click on “Resume”, this is helpful when you

want to temporarily stop migration and resume when you

want to.

5. Advanced ConfigurationAccess Advanced Configuration by going to Cart Service Migration >

Configuration from Magento backend menu. All default values are

configured to work with most cases, thus it is recommended to change

these values only when it is necessary to.

XXX Per Batch: Cart Migration splits each entity data into small batches

(or chunks) and import them in turn. This option defines batch size to

process in each turn. Depending on your Magento hosting resource you

can change the values accordingly. The lower the value is, the less time

and resource Magento spends to process a batch, also the longer overall

time to import full data.

Delay Time: the sleeping time between each batch. This option defines

the “break time” for both Source Store and Target Store. It is also helpful

to prevent Timeout issue if Source Store has been setup to limit the

number of requests in a period of time.

Auto Retry After: if by some reason, the batch process fails, the tool will

automatically retry after a period of time defined by this option.