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I'm using a hosting service for several different client websites. Currently I'm helping a client migrate their site to my server space. However, the client would like to make changes to their site rather than have me make the changes. Enter Concrete5.
Currently I have a copy of their entire site in a subdirectory, but I have not updated the DNS to point to the new location (ie, in my client subdirectory). The DNS record still points to the location on their old hosting service.
Can I set up Concrete5 in the subdirectory which contains all the files of their static html site, import their site (following the Concrete5 "how to" I found re that, thank you), and when finished (successfully, I hope) update the DNS record to point to my client subdirectory without messing something up in Concrete5?
My apologies if that's not clear enough. Please advise re clarification.
Currently I have a copy of their entire site in a subdirectory, but I have not updated the DNS to point to the new location (ie, in my client subdirectory). The DNS record still points to the location on their old hosting service.
Can I set up Concrete5 in the subdirectory which contains all the files of their static html site, import their site (following the Concrete5 "how to" I found re that, thank you), and when finished (successfully, I hope) update the DNS record to point to my client subdirectory without messing something up in Concrete5?
My apologies if that's not clear enough. Please advise re clarification.
Yes, you should be able to do this. Concrete5 is not dependent on a domain name so when you switch it should still work fine, if that's not what you meant please clarify your question.
Wow! Fast response there, Hutman. Thank you. I appreciate it.
I think we're on the same page. I also think I might have some glitchs in my C5 install. The paths I'm seeing in the browser don't look right. I'll need to do more RTFM. I probably missed something.
Thanks again, Hutman.
I think we're on the same page. I also think I might have some glitchs in my C5 install. The paths I'm seeing in the browser don't look right. I'll need to do more RTFM. I probably missed something.
Thanks again, Hutman.
Don't hesitate to call on the community if you get stuck, it's hard to find documentation for some 5.7 things and there are some great resources here.
One small caveat - as long as you create all your internal links, image sources etc using the concrete5 tools.
If you were to do it the *bad* way and just copy/paste URL,s into a page, the c5 core would not know how to render them for different domains and subdomains.
If you were to do it the *bad* way and just copy/paste URL,s into a page, the c5 core would not know how to render them for different domains and subdomains.
Hey JohntheFish, thanks for the insight. I'm still feeling my way through this. Several years ago I had an e107 site set up on a server I ran from home. Then I played with MODx for a bit, Joomla, etc. Sunk a bunch of time into Drupal and finally realized for what I'm doing it took too much effort. Then I stopped doing anything with CMS's. I've just been doing basic html/CSS/JS sites. So I'm trying to get the brain cells back in the game again. I'm really a rookie at this CMS stuff yet.
Thanks again for the tip, John.
Thanks again for the tip, John.
