Tried to clone an installation - what did I miss?
Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 10:17 pm
Hello folks,
after quite a long time I am back to the forums, with a question. There was no need to enquire in the meantime, s9y just works, and I enjoy using it.
Now, our church congregation is sponsoring a new-to-be-founded daughter congregation, and I wanted them to have a nice website to start with, so I copied all our files, copied our database, adjusted some paths et voila, we have (more or less) a clone of our website.
Original: https://www.RFK-Gladbeck.de
New: https://www.RFK-Heiligengrabe.de (throws a certificate error at the moment)
-- and I can start deleting old content (mostly), and adding some new, or so I thought.
However, more or less is the troublesome phrase here
While the site looks nearly the same, and a login into the backend is possible, some stuff (see below) is not quite all right.
My hope is, that someone more experienced than me sees it and has an idea which path might be configured wrong, or which files or directories have unintendedly had their permissions changed while copying.
Since there was no trouble for a long time, I have forgot most of what I knew about s9y's structures, file layout, theming etc
(And I didn't even know an awful lot to start with...)
Frontend:
- Looks quite all right, except, strangely enough, the purple menu background on active items, and sideways of the items.
Backend:
--> There is a lot going on, the following are examples, there are many little things that are strange.
- In "Configure Plugins", the new site only offers the part of the menu that has to do with "Sidebar Plugins", and there is no button "Event Plugins".
- Updating plugins does not work with the "Update All"-button, it has no visible effect. The attempt to update plugins one by one results in being returned to the "Configure Plugins"-page with the comment "Data successfully loaded" (in German, the correct english comment may differ).
- There is no WYSIWYG-editor active, though it is selected under "Personal Settings" - since I copied everything, I would have guessed it wass copied as well.
- "Add media" -- on the original website, I have buttons to change between upload and download; on the copy, the upload- and the download mask are on the same page, one below the other.
I am very willing to try things out, provide additional information and so on. The site is hosted with manitu in Germany.
after quite a long time I am back to the forums, with a question. There was no need to enquire in the meantime, s9y just works, and I enjoy using it.
Now, our church congregation is sponsoring a new-to-be-founded daughter congregation, and I wanted them to have a nice website to start with, so I copied all our files, copied our database, adjusted some paths et voila, we have (more or less) a clone of our website.
Original: https://www.RFK-Gladbeck.de
New: https://www.RFK-Heiligengrabe.de (throws a certificate error at the moment)
-- and I can start deleting old content (mostly), and adding some new, or so I thought.
However, more or less is the troublesome phrase here
While the site looks nearly the same, and a login into the backend is possible, some stuff (see below) is not quite all right.
My hope is, that someone more experienced than me sees it and has an idea which path might be configured wrong, or which files or directories have unintendedly had their permissions changed while copying.
Since there was no trouble for a long time, I have forgot most of what I knew about s9y's structures, file layout, theming etc
(And I didn't even know an awful lot to start with...)
Frontend:
- Looks quite all right, except, strangely enough, the purple menu background on active items, and sideways of the items.
Backend:
--> There is a lot going on, the following are examples, there are many little things that are strange.
- In "Configure Plugins", the new site only offers the part of the menu that has to do with "Sidebar Plugins", and there is no button "Event Plugins".
- Updating plugins does not work with the "Update All"-button, it has no visible effect. The attempt to update plugins one by one results in being returned to the "Configure Plugins"-page with the comment "Data successfully loaded" (in German, the correct english comment may differ).
- There is no WYSIWYG-editor active, though it is selected under "Personal Settings" - since I copied everything, I would have guessed it wass copied as well.
- "Add media" -- on the original website, I have buttons to change between upload and download; on the copy, the upload- and the download mask are on the same page, one below the other.
I am very willing to try things out, provide additional information and so on. The site is hosted with manitu in Germany.