Building a joomla site in subdirectory
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- Franck
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Hello all
Actually I'm helping a friend to build a new version of his website. He have a site since 1998 and until now it's the same old and... how can I tell you... huumm, horrible html version. ;D
I started to build a joomla version in a subdirectory of this site and I'm adding all the content now. The last component I installed is openSEF and works great
BUT, I'm not sure about one important thing. He have a lot of contents and all the articles are linked to another articles (more or less 15 linked words in every text). My question for you is: if I do all links between the articles now in the subdirectory, do you think these links will works when I'll move the joomla site in the root folder? For sure, I don't want to have several days of work to build all links for nothing :-\
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- GollumX
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i think all will be well.
none of the joomla links are based on the physical path, so none of this should be affected.
all you do is change configuration.php file after you move the folder. - Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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- Franck
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I hope you are right and me too
I'm not sure bc openSEF; so if I create a link like http:www.mydomain.com/new/section/category/article.html this one must look like http:www.mydomain.com/section/category/article.html to work in the root folder...
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- John Sanchez
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I can't say for certain with the OpenSef component, but I did this with one of my sites. I built everything in a subdirectory, then moved from the subdirectory to the main directory when I was ready to "go live."
My initial thought is that right now, the live site is set to " www.mydomain.com/new/ " so OpenSef isn't generating that part of the url, only the "section/category/article.html" portion of the url, so when you move everything and change the livesite to " www.mydomain.com/ " OpenSef will just append "section/category/article.html."
Of course, I could be full of it, because I haven't used the SEF extensions very much.
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- Franck
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John Sanchez wrote:
Yes John, it's what I think too. But we really have a lot of work to create the links! Hope all will works fine or my friend kill me
My initial thought is that right now, the live site is set to " www.mydomain.com/new/ " so OpenSef isn't generating that part of the url, only the "section/category/article.html" portion of the url, so when you move everything and change the livesite to " www.mydomain.com/ " OpenSef will just append "section/category/article.html."
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- Dave Goodwin
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Franck,
Maybe you should uninstall OpenSEF until after the transfer.
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- Zorro
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Franck,
you will be fine with OpenSEF. I did the same thing many times.
One thing you HAVE to be sure about is that all links in your content are relative links. (Some WYSIWYG editors, such as JCE, can even change absolute to relative URLs for you.) Also everything you have in your template must use relative links.
Kind regards,
Zorro
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- Franck
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Franck,
Maybe you should uninstall OpenSEF until after the transfer.
dave
Hi Dave! I think openSEF is not a problem since the component create only relative links...
Zorro wrote:Franck,
you will be fine with OpenSEF. I did the same thing many times.
One thing you HAVE to be sure about is that all links in your content are relative links. (Some WYSIWYG editors, such as JCE, can even change absolute to relative URLs for you.) Also everything you have in your template must use relative links.
Kind regards,
Zorro
Zorro, you are absolutaly right. I'm using JCE. But i saw when I link an image and insert a relative link, JCE change to absolute (I'm using image manager JCE plugin). However, when I create a link in the content (word) and insert a relative link I have this result:
www.mydomain.com/section/category/article.html (in this url there isn't the subdirectory where I'm building the new site). So when I'll transfert the site in the root directory I think all will work fine. Right?
Well, I hope!
Thanks guys for your ideas and interest!
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