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- The TonkMasta
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Hi, I've looked really hard around the forums and used several keywords to try and find what I would like to know before posting here! I'm sure it must have been asked before but I can only find stuff which is for general Joomla! configuration.
What I want to do is create a new J! installation using RocketLauncher into a directory other than root, say for example /test , as I am upgrading a site which is currently static HTML pages to Joomla!. Then I want to make all the changes and configuration to the Joomla! installation and when I'm happy with it, promote it to being the main site.
I got this from here http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_move_my_Joomla_application_to_a_different_folder.html
For the purpose of this article let us presume that we have a Joomla 1.5 installed in the public_html/test folder in our account and we want to move it to the public_html directory so that it will be directly accessible through www.yourdomain.com .
This change consists of the following steps:
1. Move all of the files and folders from your Joomla folder to the new directory. In our case from public_html/test to public_html
2. Reconfigure your application. You should edit your configuration.php file and make the following changes in it:
Change: var $log_path = '/home/user/public_html/test/logs';
To: var $log_path = '/home/user/public_html/logs';
Change: var $tmp_path = '/home/hristopa/public_html/test/tmp';
To: var $tmp_path = '/home/hristopa/public_html/tmp';
Change: var $ftp_root = '/public_html/test';
To: var $ftp_root = '/public_html';
Change: var $live_site = ' www.yourdomain.com/test ';
To: var $live_site = ' www.yourdomain.com ';
3. Remove the content of your cache folder (public_html/cache in our case)
Now when you reload your website it should be working flawlessly from its new location.
My questions are: Does the above information hold true for a RocketLauncher installation?
And can I use Rocketlauncher to install to a directory other than root?
I have already successfully installed Joomla 1.5 onto another web server as a "normal" root installation, so I'm not completely floundering with Joomla!, it's just that I don't want to a) break my clients existing static website or b) discover after spending hours customising the new installation in /test that it just doesn't work when promoted to being the "actual" site!
thanks in advance for any support
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- Kat05
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hi there,
you can install the rocketlauncher into any subfolder and move it when the development of the site is finished. just make sure that you create a new database for this install and not touch the one that might be there for the existing live site.
you could also start to build the site on a local server using xampp or wamp and then move it to the live site using for example joomlapack. www.joomlapack.net
not sure if you have seen the rocketlauncher tutorial yet? (2nd video)
www.rockettheme.com/tutorials
kat
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- The TonkMasta
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Thanks for taking the time to reply Kat. Much appreciated. I'll take a look at the tutorial videos, I'd browsed the text based tutorials already. So just to clarify, the instructions I'd posted from the siteground.com site are correct?
There isn't any databases existing at the domain I'm about to upgrade currently, so that won't pose any problems. Thanks again. 
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- JEM
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Yes, they are correct.
But if you use JoomlaPack, backup the site when you're done, and run the install in its new location, JoomlaPack will reconfigure all the paths, etc. automatically. - Thanks,
jim
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- The TonkMasta
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OK, but it seems to me that moving all the files from /test and performing steps 1-3 like in the siteground instruction is pretty trivial to do. I've had a look at the JoomlaPack site and video and, while it looks cool and all, seems that I'd really only need to use that if I wanted to do backups. Which is prolly a good idea, naturally!
The reason I want to do this is so I can start the client with involvement in the process of migrating the site to Joomla! swiftly, so I don't really want to use xampp, I am hoping I can just use RocketLauncher, rip straight into modifying Joomla in collaboration with the client, then once he's happy, move the folders/edit the config files and whacko the diddle oh as we say here in Oz :cheesy:
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