moving servers

Hi,

I have been using version 1 of Power CMS for some time but I have just set up my first version 2 of the software on a local server. Thing is I now need to move the site to a remote server so the client can see it and as the file structure has changed I seem to be getting some issues. Can anyone tell which files need to be changed to make the site work on the remote server now, the database is ready and waiting.

Thanks.

you will need to edit the wa_settings table in the database to set the root URL.

There are 7 items in that table, do you mean id2 PCMS Remote Root? If that is the item do I just put the URL in place of what is there in value, I tried this and it didn't work.

you need to change the remote root to a site relive path to where the power cms ditrectory is on your site.


for example, if you use the URL:
admin

to get to the admin console, then the remote root should be set to:
/powerCMS/

Yes but that directory is the same on the testing server, I have tried changing the the two database links on PowerCMSConnection.php and the file in the Connections folder to the remote servers MySQL database but it doesn't seem to work, surely there must be a simple way to migrate from the local test server to the remote server or do I have to reinstall every time a site is moved?

OK, I worked out the issue, what I thought was a database connection issue is actually down to the way data is now aded to pages from Power CMS. In the old system if you moved servers you simply had to redirect the Globals file to the new location, now you have to change every entry that relates to database content so the files have the correct URL. This means 24 changes on an 8 page site with 3 content areas on each page instead of the old single change.

Not an issue I know if you do find and replace across the site but that wont work if I want to keep a local version of the site as well.

Yes, the Advanced file management setting in PowerCMS 2 will store the entire file address pointing to your server, moving servers will mean that the file information will need to be updated in the database.

OK next issue, admin is working but I have two issues.

1: The i rite data is missing, I just get a text entry box.

2. The developer notes are creating gibberish on the echo line.

echo WA_getCMSContent($database_PowerCMSConnection, $PowerCMSConnection, '@@content-group@@'

instead of.


echo WA_getCMSContent($database_PowerCMSConnection, $PowerCMSConnection, 'Home Page', 'Column 1', false);

Any ideas

this is an issue with the lighter.php.js file being processed as a php file instead of treated as a js file. see this page for details:
faq/

this is also pobably causing the issue with the irite toolbars

Right, I've spoken to my hosting company and that is something they are not willing to do on the server, is there a way of mr implementing this via a php.ini file, failing that I will have to revert back to version 1 of Power CMS