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Moving my C5 site from a subfolder to my public_html directly

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I feel like a total idiot, because I THOUGHT I knew what I was doing, and moved my files from the c5 folder (which was under the public__html and put it straight into the public. However, now nothing works and I can't find any of my pages. I have spent untold hours on this site, and was ready to put it up live, but.....now I am panicked.

I tried putting them back into the C5 directory, but now it shows them as moved, 404 erros and I want to cry.

Someone please help.
Thanks a bunch,

Novice Idiot, Colleen
wawahue
 
andrewjaff replied on at Permalink Reply
andrewjaff
Hi,

I think if you have moved back to public_html folder. then your problem should be fixed.
if not then check .htacess file.
ctadmin replied on at Permalink Reply
I've done this type of move lots of times.

here's the key:

Turn off Pretty URLs and clear cache.

Then move everything up one level to public_html.
Then re-enable pretty urls.

Should work.
andrewjaff replied on at Permalink Reply
andrewjaff
I will have to check ... Let me know if you need technical help.
wawahue replied on at Permalink Reply
wawahue
How do i turn off the pretty urls? I've tried and they won't go away. On the plus side I was able to recover the files as I was at least smart enough to our do a back up before I made the move, so I uploaded the back up back into the c5 folder and bam - my site returned. :)
Now my problem is these canonical files - previously all my blog titles were in a dropdown Under my main't blog page. However now they aren't showing at all anymore and they won't let me undo them so I can put them back as a sub
So frustrating - apparently I know just enough to get myself in ttrouble😄