Migrating Site from one server to another

pSouper · Post by **pSouper** » Wed 19. May 2004, 14:58

Is it safe to help this guy OG?
no offence Forefront but I know who I would rather not piss off

forefront · Post by **forefront** » Wed 19. May 2004, 14:58

Regarding Fantastico ... I paid $25 one-time to my datacenter provider to have Fantastico on my server. My customers love it because it makes installing applications easy, takes only minutes (it also installs InageMagick with phpWCMS) and it also can remove the application.

Most software providers don't have a problem with Fantastico auto-installing their applications. What's the difference whether users download it from you or install it via Fantastico? It's a far easier install with Fantastico and takes less time.

Because you hate them so much ... and because I like your software so much ... I uninstalled my Fantastico-installed version of phpWCMS and am trying to manually install it instead. The advantage is that I have a more current version of phpWCMS than before.

It sure would be nice if you had an installer script that would do a complete untar and set-up on a server. Users (and web hosts too) love that kind of convenience!

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Wed 19. May 2004, 17:57

You have to change the $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] manually in conf.inc.php.
It has nothing to do with the IP or domain name or something like this.

Oliver

forefront · Post by **forefront** » Wed 19. May 2004, 18:08

Okay, here's my problem:

When attempting to view the site or login, the software tries to access www.radiodavid.com (the current active website on another server) instead of trying to access my not active site I am developing at 209.123.203.51/~deckard. Now, when the script runs and you get the error at line 131, there's a variable called PHPWCMS_ROOT ... it has picked up MY domain information (209.123.203.51/~forefron), which is not the customer information. How can I force phpWCMS to stay at the development IP address (209.123.203.51/~deckard?

I tried to use $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] to force the 209.123.203.51/~deckard account, but it did not work.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Wed 19. May 2004, 18:58

Oh,

check your conf.in.php

Values have to be like:

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$phpwcms["site"] = 'http://209.123.203.51/~deckard/';
$phpwcms["root"] = "";
$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] = '/home/www/~deckard'; //but the real path to phpwcms

Oliver

forefront · Post by **forefront** » Thu 20. May 2004, 00:48

SUCCESS! At least now I can continure setting up the site! Thank you for your help. A couple of questions:

Which CSS controls the look of phpWCMS intself? All I can see is this big, ugly Times Roman font everywhere. Yuk!

I am using this image as the copyright notice on all pages and it links to phpWCMS's site. I hope it meets with your approval. It is far more attractive and acceptable to the user than the plain text.

Pappnase · Post by **Pappnase** » Thu 20. May 2004, 00:59

hello

look for the phpwcms.css!*smile*
in the include/inc_css folder

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Thu 20. May 2004, 06:31

Times New Roman? Maybe you have not all standard web fonts installed.

It's not neccessary to have such copyright image on any frontend page. I don't like the "powered by"

Better to have a small text link like "cms: phpwcms (if you wish to have one).

But thanks too.

Oliver

forefront · Post by **forefront** » Thu 20. May 2004, 07:08

I thought it was nice. I can remove the "Powered by" text. I used it because one of the existing logos has it on it, but if you'd rather have it more obscure, that's okay with me.

I got the CSS sall straightened out. All is wonderful again.

Post by **Oliver Georgi** » Thu 20. May 2004, 07:13

fine

Don't be angry with me. I'm also changing the CI of phpwcms - starting with the project site.

Oliver

derD · Post by **derD** » Thu 20. May 2004, 23:24

is it ok to have youre image just in the impressum / legal notice ?