ready to move development site to go live
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- Arne Patterson
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Hi all,
just to start out this has been fun making a website with your stuff - easy peasy for a very newbe web person, you guys make it so easy and the forums have been a great help - tho i haven't had really any problems with Solar Sentinel, just learning curves.
Ok,
i'm working with the Rocket Theme "Solar Sentinel" 1.5.3 i have installed it in a sub directory of the root for my domain Hosted with Netfirms.com
the www.aptecon.com is a joomla 1.5 legacy template running Joomla 1.5.5 that i currently have up.
I want to replace it completely with
www.aptecon.com/rocktecon running joomla 1.5.10 ( but in the www.aptecon.com and drop the rocktecon part)
I don't need any of the old site at all, or any of the content. ( i have made a completely new site with different content, on a new template)
Now I'm ready to move it to the root directory and replace the joomla 1.0 / legacy site with the completely new Solar Sentinel content and template.
I installed Joomla Pack in the root directory of www.aptecon.com but it came up with the following errors
* Deprecated PHP version (PHP4)
* CRC calculation issue
* Default output directory in use
* ZIP format selected
i guess my question is can i just delete the old website ( after i back up the new website with Joomla pack? - i haven't tried joomla pack out on the www.aptecon.com/rocktecon yet) and install the new solar sentinel package there and then copy all of my content. with use of joomla pack ( i assume that it has errors due to the old legacy joomla stuff) and will go away after all the old stuff is removed.
my thought is to install a clean solar sentenal package without content - then joomla pack the NEW content into that directory......is this cool?
if there are any links that can be of help please post them, as i may not know all the proper terminology for such searches or just overall not very knowledgeable in the way of the web mastering.
perhaps i've done something wrong? or a simpler way?
thanks in advance..
arne
ps
i have take screen shots of all my sections,catagories, module settings and article layout, cause i figure i will have to set these up again.
after all this is done - i look forward to tweeking out the templates out over the next wile...as i learn more about joomla.
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- Ben Lee
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Something to research a little bit first and you my need to contact your host for this:
* Deprecated PHP version (PHP4)
You will want to be running PHP5 for the newer stuff. PHP4 works, but PHP5 works better.
Also, be sure to backup your old site as well...the new one might work great locally, but on the server might have an issue or two.
My suggestions for a "replace site totally" case:
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Create a new database that is empty and the new site can use.
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Create a directory where your new site is going called "OLD" or whatever you prefer, and then move all the old site files to that directory...this way you don't have any interference from them while you are uploading and installing the new site...but you also don't take them totally off your server just in case you need to replace it in an emergency.
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Now, upload all your JoomlaPack stuff and when you run the install, be sure to use the new database info as it won't want to overwrite the old database...or it will create more new tables with a different prefix and you'll still have all the old info there that's not needed. New is best.
The errors it looks like you are having are that your server is running PHP4. It may have PHP5 installed and be able to run it and it just kept your site running on PHP4 since it was installed on PHP4. Ask your host before you do this if you can.
The other one seemed like there were just other Joomla files there when you tried to upload all the JoomlaPack files. With the old site in this "OLD" directory, I think you'll be fine.
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- Arne Patterson
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Thanks so much for the prompt reply and helpful tips, Ben!
i have changed the setting for php to php 5 ( my hosts default was php4) so just a click to change it, and everything still works!... yippy
i have also changed the settings on the Joomla Pack - regarding the back up format from zip to joomla pack settings... all seems to be good.
the only joolma pack error is "* Default output directory in use" and this will get sorted out as i go through the transfer process this weekend...
thanks again. have a great weekend when it arrives.
arne
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- Ben Lee
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Glad it's working for ya!
One more thing about JoomlaPack:
You can use a directory outside of "public_html" for more security. Here's where it would be located:
If your website directory is public_html and located here:
/home/username/public_html/
you can put your backup directory here like this:
/home/username/backup_directory/
By placing it outside like this, it's not viewable through a web browser.
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- Arne Patterson
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Thanks very much for the info. As the site was in a subdirectory of the domain, we just moved everything up a directory and the database remained as it was. This seems to be a standard *easy* migration as we were not moving between domains etc.
All works great apart from the mod_rocknewspager which stopped picking up and displaying the articles even when we reinstalled it.
Is there anything that needs to be cleared down in the database or could some modules be looking for hard paths? Or something else!
Grateful for any other tips. Thanks for all previous advice
Cheers
Louise (the techie fiddler of the team)
for Arne
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- Ben Lee
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If you're just moving the files, you need to adjust the absolute paths in the configuration.php file. It's in the same directory your Joomla site is installed in. You'll have a couple lines that look like:
/home/somthing/something/joomla_install/
Just make sure these are the set right.
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- Arne Patterson
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Cheers. I did that. I was wondering why it was recreating a rocketon/tmp dir
The RokNewsPager was still only displaying the first article. I changed caching to No Caching on the Advanced Parameters on the module instance and works now. Whether it was a combo prob I am not sure. If I turn Caching back to Use Global I get the original prob.
Thanks again for the prompt response.
You guys rock!
Louise
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