Move from Local XAMPP installation to online server
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I am relatively new to C5 and still really in the evaluation stage. I have transferred a site I am designing for a customer from Dreamweaver into C5 running locally under XAMPP.
I have created the theme (reasonably easy!) and added in my jQuery menu which works perfectly now (took a bit of time to sort details!).
Having jumped those hurdles I need to be able to transfer the development site under XAMPP to the customer's domain. Everything I have read so far seems to indicate that people are having problems with this. And THIS is essential if I am going to commit to C5.
Also, I need the urls for the site not to be cluttered up with extra bits and pieces but to look just the way they would if I had not used C5 e.g.
www.www.mysite.org.uk/home.html...
www.www.mysite.org.uk/aboutus.html...
etc.
Any definitive advice would be joyously received.
Many thanks
Vern
I have created the theme (reasonably easy!) and added in my jQuery menu which works perfectly now (took a bit of time to sort details!).
Having jumped those hurdles I need to be able to transfer the development site under XAMPP to the customer's domain. Everything I have read so far seems to indicate that people are having problems with this. And THIS is essential if I am going to commit to C5.
Also, I need the urls for the site not to be cluttered up with extra bits and pieces but to look just the way they would if I had not used C5 e.g.
www.www.mysite.org.uk/home.html...
www.www.mysite.org.uk/aboutus.html...
etc.
Any definitive advice would be joyously received.
Many thanks
Vern
It's not that bad, but you do sometimes have to do a tiny bit of troubleshooting.
If you're concerned about a seamless transition, my advice would be to set up a sub-domain on your client's server and install everything there.
Once that's working, you will need to do a few things, and if you do them quickly the site should only be down for part of a minute.
1)switch the settings on your client's host to point to the actual domain. The site is now down, so real quick like...
2) edit config/site.php to reflect the domain change
3) check to see the site is working properly now
4) double check everything's working!
If you need any help, just post back here.
One thing I've found is that after you've copied your site and db and everything's working, you will need to do a password retrieval as there's some encryption or something that gets mangled.