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- Limco
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Henning brought this to my attention yesterday...
I have my Joomla site here
http://www.addictivehobby.com/joomla2
But I would like it to be
www.addictivehobby.com/joomla
or simply
www.addictivehobby.com
But if I do this- all my links will not work !- is there a way around this ?
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- damo
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your system built links will change to whatever url you have the site on as joomla is using your actual site url as it sees it. e.g. joomla sees /joomla2 as your live url so if you move it to / then joomla will pick that up
links you have manually put in with the /joomla2 would need to be changed and there is probably something you can throw into .htaccess to make that easy but you'll have to do some digging for that or hope that there is a .htaccess whizz who can tell you quickly what to do .. - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- Limco
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Sounds a 50/50 situation here damo !
So if I change the Joomla2 folder to Joomla over on my server- part of the links will work ?
And the rest that don't work- I will have to find them and re-link them again ?
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- damo
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- what i would suggest doing first is creating a new directory at joomla3, copy everythind there and just make sure that the site links are changing to /joomla3/ before making any lasting move
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- Limco
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Okay- I have created a new directory called joomla3
So now I just copy joomla2 into this ?
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- damo
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first step yes. then make a copy of your database, call it something else and point the new site to the new database
this is a long way around doing something that will probably just work, but its just a way of making 100% sure and testing it first - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- Limco
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damo wrote:
first step yes. then make a copy of your database, call it something else and point the new site to the new databaseMake a copy of my database ? Oooops ! how does one do this ?
Then piont the site to this ?..........now I am getting lost.
maybe I should get my host to help me ?
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- Henning
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"cough" but you are making backups on a regular basis (J-pack)?
And you have something like phpMyAdmin on your site ...
you can migrate your site with j-pack ...
or if you do it manually don't forget to update the right paths in the configuration.php ...
but overall if that sounds dangerous for you ...
... I would leave it as it is – before you mess up everything. (I did that once and it was really no fun)
perhaps your host can change the path to you site but even in that case you have to make changes to the configuration.php (at least var $log_path and var $tmp_path) and the .htaccess ....
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- damo
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that is another option
if you have a backup of your site and you are familiar with backing up and restoring
then just make the move - chances are it wont go wrong and if it does, just use the backup
move everything to the desired location and hey presto - it should work
i say should, becasue i dont know how your server is setup, potential issues with permissions and all that, but if you have a backup and you are familiar with restoring, then just move it .. see what happens.
if you have cpanel also, use file manager to move everything and if it doesn't seem to work, just use file mager to move it back. if it has worked on your move to /joomla3 - chances are extremley high that it will work when you move to / - www.c3p0.se - sweden
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- Limco
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Thanks to the both of you for trying to help me- but looks like all of this will drive me nutz and I will do some thing wrong........................so I will contact my host and see if they can help me with this move.
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