About to move the site from sub-dir to main Please Help-Error [SOLVED]

[ROUBOS]

Hi all,
I'm about to move the site I finished from the sub directory to the main one.
Looking at this site: http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/Move_Elxis_from_a_sub-dir_to_the_root_dir
just wanted to ask if there is something else I should be looking out for.
Any tips.

[ks-net]

no ..are all there..

just this=> if you are not familiar with ssh .. copy  files manually

[ROUBOS]

thanks. I think I'm going to do it via FTP. Either from the console, or FileZilla

[ROUBOS]

I'm in PHPmyAdmin and want to take a full database back up and then update the urls within the database... how ?

Did all apart from:
Save the SQL file and import it in your online database (you will have to drop all existing db tables before).
Some components or modules maybe using at their configuration parameters paths to some directories... check also you DB for those paths!

Need to iport it.. how do i drop the tables... and check if module and component paths are ok?

[ROUBOS]

OK,
I backed it up, changed the links using PSPad, and restored it.
Hope its all ok now




Please help. I tried getting into the administrator pages, I get PHP errors, and then logs me out

[ks-net]

copy here the error...

[ROUBOS]

I don't get the chance to copy anything. I get several php errors and then it takes me back to the login screen

The site seems to be working fine

[ROUBOS]

I did not drop the tables before importing the backup  database. could this be a problem?

[ks-net]

yea.. since you follow default settings in phpmyadmin when exporting....

in few words your database is still the old-one! since the old tables exists phpmyadmin did not overwritten them during the import...


1- export(use defult settings)
2-save in your pc the file
3-make a copy of this file
4- edit the copy apply new paths etc...
5- go in phpmyadmin .. select all tables..scroll down... in the drop-down... with selected=>drop-delete.. db now have 0 tables...
6- import the modified copy with phpmyadmin

[ROUBOS]

Well just did it again. Dropped the tables. Successfully imported the DB file, and the problem is the same

[ks-net]

if you want  PM me access

i assumed that you copied  all files..

and you have check again permissions for cache 777 and tmp 777 folder.. if not you can not login to admin...

[ROUBOS]

cache and tmpr are both 777
which access do you need? FTP? Elxis Admin?

there are many sess_ files in the main dir

getting these errors on site:
Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/www/vhosts/xxx--removed--xxx/httpdocs)

Unknown: open(/var/www/vhosts/xxx--removed--xxx/httpdocs/sess_llhg23mp9q17sb1fuht0u6tva0, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13)

[ks-net]

both..

[ROUBOS]

if I delete the sess_ files?

[ks-net]

no-harm.. do it