# Discourse broken after moving servers

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-broken-after-moving-servers/307476>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [May 9, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-broken-after-moving-servers/307476 "2024-05-09T23:50:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ryan\_Hyer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ryan_hyer/32/159861_2.png) [@Ryan\_Hyer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ryan_Hyer)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2024, 11:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-broken-after-moving-servers/307476/1 "2024-05-09T23:50:01Z")

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Our Discourse instance has been hosted on Digital Ocean for many years, to the point where issues were cropping up due to still being on Ubuntu 18. So, I created a new Droplet with a fresh Discourse install, bootstrapped it, then downloaded and [restored the latest backup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/restore-a-backup-from-the-command-line/108034) from the old Droplet. No errors during any of this.

Once logged in to the new instance, though, it looks like this:

 ![Screenshot 2024-05-09 174356](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/a/4/aa481bb3e8c91bdc474e6f26f419f6cba45ccf3b.png)

And the console gives me this:

```plaintext
Uncaught SyntaxError: unexpected token: private identifier
admin-13326e7ca61effcc233d500e3263c63074c9823b7e1d0c1680b6f68e23565d5a.js:76:99
ℹ️ Discourse v3.3.0.beta2-dev — https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/2a2eaf835f — Ember v5.5.0 app.js:213
Uncaught (in promise) Error: There is no route named admin
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Any suggestions on where to begin troubleshooting this would be much appreciated. Thanks!

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