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  • Moving a Test Site live

    Posted 17 years 5 months ago
    • Hey Team,

      I have worked with my RocketTheme template and nearly have it ready for production. I have a live site already running (non-joomla) and would like to swap in the Joomla site.

      Can someone provide me with a high-level overview of how to make the Joomla site (currently in a sub-directory) the live site?

      Thanks
      Ray
      www.getsafensecure.com
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    Re: Moving a Test Site live

    Posted 17 years 5 months ago
    • This is what I do:

      1) FTP to the site.
      2) create a folder called "oldsite", and drag (move) all the root content into this folder
      3) Go to the Joomla install (sub folder), highlight everything, then drag it up a level (moving all files to the root)
      4) Download configuration.php and edit:

      $mosConfig_absolute_path
      $mosConfig_cachepath
      $mosConfig_live_site

      ...to reflect the new paths.

      That's it :)

      You can then download the oldsite folder and remove it from the server.
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    Re: Moving a Test Site live

    Posted 17 years 5 months ago
    • Alternatively, you can use a simple HTML redirect like this, changing your index.html for ex. in oldindex.html. The new index.html will be:
      <HTML>
      <HEAD>
      <TITLE>Title</TITLE>
      <meta name="description" content="description">
      <meta name="KeyWords" content="KeyWords">
      </HEAD><!-- --><FRAMESET rows='0,100%' FRAMEBORDER='0' FRAMEBORDER='0' BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING='0'><FRAME SRC='' NAME='top' BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING='0' FRAMEBORDER='0' NORESIZE SCROLLING='NO'><FRAME SRC=' www.yoursite.ext/joomlasubdirectory ' NAME='bottom' BORDER=0 FRAMESPACING='0' FRAMEBORDER='0' NORESIZE SCROLLING='YES'><noframes><body></body>
      </noframes></FRAMESET></html>

      This solution, using frames, can cause problems to some search engines.
    • Last Edit: 17 years 5 months ago by Max Miecchi.
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  • Re: Moving a Test Site live

    Posted 17 years 5 months ago
    • And there's nothing I need to do in the admin site?
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    Re: Moving a Test Site live

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  • Re: Moving a Test Site live

    Posted 17 years 5 months ago
    • OK, thanks for your help!
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  • Re: Moving a Test Site live

    Posted 17 years 5 months ago
    • Such concise, fast help! Can you guys help me out over here develop a live site - offline.
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