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#1 2006-04-18 16:10:43
- whintersby
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Newbie - Having trouble transferring my site from subdirectory to root
Hi There,
I’ll be the first to admit this will probably be a very simple or/and stupid question, but I’m a little bit stumped?
Basically I’ve installed textpattern to a directory on my website (e.g http://www.website.com/textpatterntest) and completed all the configuration, etc.
Now I’ve finally reached the stage of wanting to launch my website, but how do I go about making this page accessible from my website root / as my homepage?
Any sort of advice would be most appreciated
Thanks
Last edited by whintersby (2006-04-26 14:12:47)
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#3 2006-04-18 16:28:01
- whintersby
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Re: Newbie - Having trouble transferring my site from subdirectory to root
Thankyou so very much maniqui! I honestly did look around all the FAQs and searched google, etc, but to no avail.
So annoying that I couldn’t find this article!!!
Thanks again.
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#4 2006-04-26 13:18:57
- whintersby
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Re: Newbie - Having trouble transferring my site from subdirectory to root
Hi, could I ask if someone is able to point me in the right direction please?!
I’m trying to move my textpattern installation from a subdirectory to the root of my website as explained in the article mentioned previously. However, the homepage moves across ok, but all the links end up pointing to 404 pages. I’m sure there must be something simple I’m doing wrong – but I’ve done the procedure 3 times now and each time end up with the same conclusion!!!
If someone is able to help me with this it would be most appreciated.
Chris
http://www.chriswilliamsdesign.com
Here are my Diagnostics in case they offer any assistance:
Textpattern version: 4.0.2 (r1076)
last_update: 2005-12-15 12:03:01/2006-04-26 12:50:43
Document root: /home/username/public_html
$path_to_site: /home/username/public_html
Textpattern path: /home/username/public_html/textpattern
Permanent link mode: section_id_title
Temp folder: /tmp
Site URL: www.chriswilliamsdesign.com
PHP version: 4.3.11
Register globals: 1
server_time: 2006-04-26 15:09:23
MySQL: 4.0.25-standard
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.11 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634a mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
Apache version: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 PHP/4.3.11 FrontPage/5.0.2.2634a mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
Pre-flight check:
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Your version of PHP has security related risks. Please turn register_globals off or update to a newer PHP version.
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.htaccess file contents:
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Last edited by whintersby (2006-04-26 14:10:41)
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#5 2006-04-26 14:26:57
- KurtRaschke
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Re: Newbie - Having trouble transferring my site from subdirectory to root
Your .htaccess looks like it’s empty. You can either switch to messy URLs or fix the .htaccess file.
http://textpattern.com/faq/66/404-error-when-linking-to-article-pages
http://textpattern.com/faq/50/where-can-i-download-htacccess
-Kurt
kurt@kurtraschke.com
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#6 2006-04-26 14:36:33
- whintersby
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Re: Newbie - Having trouble transferring my site from subdirectory to root
Hi Kurt, thanks for the reply.
Looks like I’ve got things working now. The problem seemed to be me trying to copy all files across using my ftp program – for some reason it just never worked. I then used my host’s “file manager” from within the control panel and everything worked fine.
Sorry to ask about this (very frequently asked) simple question.
Chris
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