This article explores the migration of the Chuvash Encyclopedia's website from the outdated ASP.NET platform to the modern Laravel framework. It provides a brief history of the regional online scientific reference resource, the reasons for updating its technical base, including security issues, incompatibility with modern browsers, and a lack of technical support. It also analyzes the key stages of its transition to the new Laravel platform. These include a thorough audit of the old encyclopedia website, including URL mapping, the design of a new database architecture on the modern MySQL 8.0 platform, which has been significantly optimized compared to the outdated version, as well as database migration from MSSQL to MySQL 8.0 and database processing using console commands. An example of a developed console command for automatically replacing URLs is provided. The result of this work was the launch of an updated website for the Chuvash Encyclopedia online at http://chuvenc.ru, which meets modern security and performance standards. New solutions were developed to migrate the outdated, yet socially significant, web resource to a modern platform with minimal data and functionality loss.

Keywords: Electronic Chuvash Encyclopedia, website, ASP.NET platform, Laravel framework, database, MySQL, data migration, data processing automation, console commands