Transferring from one live site to another.

I need a bit of direction.

I developed a site for a client, within my own domain, behind a password protected folder. I used powerCMS (design extender extension)

We have been hammering out edits, updates, etc. This all has worked flawlessly. Now, the client wants to go live.

This means I need to transfer all the assets to their server. Which I did, including an export of the DB

on the NEW server. I cannot get the site working at all. I understand there will be a few places to update paths, etc. I CAN connect to the DB fine, however, when hitting a page I just keep getting an "Internal Server Error - The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. "

I feel like I need to allow powerCMS to "reinstall" somehow... but at the same time, I think the "reinstall" will force me to start over from scratch.

Where do I even start?

If I remove the line: <?php require_once("WA_CMS/WA_CMS.php"); ?> the site loads, without the DB content, of course.... adding that line just generates the internal server error.

that is a general error that will be retuned if error reporting is turned off.

to turn error reporting on, add the following code at line 1:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors','on');

?>

once we know what the error is, we will be able to troubleshoot the cause.

ok that helped a ton, thanks.

I now have it down to 2 errors:

Warning: Unknown: open(/var/php_sessions/sess_97bf0b26b7b1b43665a7cdef57f7a743, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/var/php_sessions) in Unknown on line 0

I still need to go back and update a few paths, it may fix error 2

that is a problem with the server.

it means that the session.save_path setting in the php.ini file is not correct.

you will need to contact the host to have them correct the problem.

This is the answer to the session issue:

To run PHP sessions, include the following code at the top of any PHP script that uses sessions:

session_save_path("your home directory path"/cgi-bin/tmp);
session_start();

To find "your home directory path":

Log into the PHP Scripting page for actual path to your home directory.
Replace "your home directory path" with the path shown.

Set session_save_path to a directory within your cgi-bin: either /cgi-bin/tmp as in the example above or another directory as long as the absolute path is correct.


I should just be able to add the /cgi-bin/tmp path into the php.ini, right?

OK i got that issue ironed out - all good. Thanks for the help.