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Hello, I'm preparing to convert my CE4 site and I'm wondering if this approach will work, considering we can now convert directly from ce4 to backlight 2. I use lightroom classic to publish.
I'v read Rod Barbee's old post on February 17, 2017 : Converting a Publisher-based CE4 site to Backlight.
Based on his post, I have made some modification to test my whole site with all galleries and photos before I go online with backlight 2 :
- Create a sub-domain
- Copy everything from current ce4 site to the sub-domain.
(make sure it is running as well as the original site.
- Follow documentation to upgrade this CE4 sub-domain to Backlight 2.
take care of always include the subdomain when yourdomain.com is mentioned. (subdomain.yourdomain.com)
- Doc's Step 1 & 2 : Complete installation & Quick setup until providing the API key for Publisher
- Question here : Do I install publisher in lightroom before or after upgrading albums or it does'nt matter ?
- Install the Publisher in Lightroom CC Classic (see doc)
modify the API URL to include the subdomain
- Step 3 : From Backlight's dashboard, click the link “Upgrade Albums from CE4”.
- Create and test album and album set templates and assign them directly from Backlight dashboard.
- When satisfied of the new site design, delete everything from the main site and recopy everything from the sub-domain.
- Log into the Backlight dashboard in the main site and go to Settings. Change the Site URL and Company URL
- In Lightroom, go to the Publisher instance that controls the existing albums and update the API URL to the original Backlight location (yoursite.com/backlight/publisher)
Did I forget something? does that make sense? Since backlight 2 dashboard must have changed since backlight 1, do I have something else to do?
thanks a lot for taking time to analyse this one.
I know there will be a lot of files getting to and from my pc... but It will be a good time to take a break!
Michel,
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