Moving Site Issue
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I developed a replacement site on concrete5 for an existing nonprofit site in another CMS. The site is hosted at dreamhost who provided us with 2 domains. I used the second (unused) domain to develop and debug the concrete5 site (my first). Today was move day and screwed it up. Looking for help.
The symptom is that after moving the site to the primary domain, I'm getting "The page isn't redirecting properly" in FF and "This webpage has a redirect loop" in Chrome. Cleared cookies in both and still got same result.
I used the dochttp://www.concrete5.org/documentation/installation/moving_a_site/... so let me refer to the steps as I differed a bit:
1. Backup your database - did it
2. Backup your file structure - did it via direct ftp'ing of site files and structure to my local disk using FileZilla.
3. Disable AND clear the cache. - did it but doesn't matter
4. Disable Pretty url's - never used them in the first place
5. Move your c5 directory to where you want it to go - This is where I screwed up. Deleted the primary site files and through ham headed move deleted the new domain files as well.
So ftp'd files from my local disk back to primary site (but these files don't have disabled and cleared cache).
6. Open the /config/site.php - did it
7. You will see something - nothing to do
8. in the line: define('BASE_URL', 'http://site.com') - changed the url to the proper primary domain name
9. NA
10. This step is only if you are moving your mysql database - left alone
The website address ishttp://www.monroevillagefarmersmarket.org...
Any help or ideas on things to try would be greatly appreciated.
The symptom is that after moving the site to the primary domain, I'm getting "The page isn't redirecting properly" in FF and "This webpage has a redirect loop" in Chrome. Cleared cookies in both and still got same result.
I used the dochttp://www.concrete5.org/documentation/installation/moving_a_site/... so let me refer to the steps as I differed a bit:
1. Backup your database - did it
2. Backup your file structure - did it via direct ftp'ing of site files and structure to my local disk using FileZilla.
3. Disable AND clear the cache. - did it but doesn't matter
4. Disable Pretty url's - never used them in the first place
5. Move your c5 directory to where you want it to go - This is where I screwed up. Deleted the primary site files and through ham headed move deleted the new domain files as well.
So ftp'd files from my local disk back to primary site (but these files don't have disabled and cleared cache).
6. Open the /config/site.php - did it
7. You will see something - nothing to do
8. in the line: define('BASE_URL', 'http://site.com') - changed the url to the proper primary domain name
9. NA
10. This step is only if you are moving your mysql database - left alone
The website address ishttp://www.monroevillagefarmersmarket.org...
Any help or ideas on things to try would be greatly appreciated.
Pritam,
Thanks for the suggestions but fixed it. Dreamhost supports a 1 button install for Concrete5. So deleted all the content from the primary domain, did the 1 button installed, deleted all that content, then uploaded the site again. Changed the url as in step 8 and up it came.
Clearly there was a Dreamhost dependent initialization step I was missing.
Thanks for the suggestions but fixed it. Dreamhost supports a 1 button install for Concrete5. So deleted all the content from the primary domain, did the 1 button installed, deleted all that content, then uploaded the site again. Changed the url as in step 8 and up it came.
Clearly there was a Dreamhost dependent initialization step I was missing.
Are the file permissions i.e., Chmod 777 /config /files (recursive) /packages applied to the dir mentioned.