localRoot vs remoteRoot in WA_Globals.php

Hi all-
A bit confused on the localRoot and remoteRoot settings in the WA_Globals.php file.

Should the one that you're not using be commented out? I commented out the "localRoot" line since I am using a remote host, but not sure if I am breaking something.

The WA directions on this part are terrible.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Marek

you can just set both of those to your remote host when you are ready to upload to a live server. I have mine like below and it works just fine.

$WAGLOBAL_localRoot = "/CMS102/"; //relative path to your PowerCMS files on your local testing server.
$WAGLOBAL_remoteRoot = "/CMS102/"; //relative path to your PowerCMS files on your remote server.

The concept is this:

You may want to test locally in a location like: index.php

Then you upload live to: index.php

We want to create the menus with absolute urls so they can be in pages other than the root without updating the links. So we allow you to set a remote root and local root separately... so in my case I would have used: "/domainname/" for my local root and "/" as my remote root. That way it would work in either even though the roots are different.

The code basically checks to see if the local root exists, if it does, it uses that, if it doesn't, it uses the remote root.

Thanks to both of you.

Ray -
I understand the concept (local vs remote), but still not sure what to do in the WA_globals file... I am not using a local server at all, just uploading to a remote host. Can I keep the localhost line commented out? Do I set it to the same as the remote host? (in my case $WAGLOBAL_remoteRoot = "/CMS/") Or does it matter?

Please be specific.

Thanks again,
Marek

Just set them both to this then. I probably wouldn't comment that line out.

$WAGLOBAL_localRoot = "/CMS/";
$WAGLOBAL_remoteRoot = "/CMS/";

What Gruant says is correct, you should not comment out the local root setting if you are not using it, instead you should set the local root the same as the remote root.

Webassit says these tools "are the easiest tool all designer want to have and that is not needed any knowledgment of anything, everybody can upload delete and bla bla.." but the real thing is no matter if you are a designer or a newbie, if there is not any "step by step", you will not do anything by just spending US$100.

Im working on this the whole day, and I could set it up and launch online, but there is no way to make any simple changes to any existent site, even if I have uploaded a previous content, if there is not clerar what to do, Im ****ed lost.

Iok, when I add a new content in pPowerCMS and when I want to edit it I can´t find such content at all. I have paste the code ... and? I sorry have spent 100 bucks for nothing, at least I'll learn from this hell.

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