Moving Server, Any Advice?

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:35 am

Hi all,
I've been running s9y for over a year now, and I've finally gone and gotten my own domain. So I will be moving my serendipity install from
http://www.minds.nuim.ie/~dez/blog to http://www.destraynor.com

Whats the best way to move? Just zip up the whole directory and edit the config, or should I install a new s9y, and export the database?

Has anyone done this before, and if so what went right/wrong?

Many thanks

Des Traynor

azel · Post by **azel** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:40 am

Here's a link to the FAQ that will help. http://www.s9y.org/11.html#A21

Hope all goes well.

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:52 am

Cool thanks for that Azel, I'll let you know how it goes.

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 3:31 pm

All done, now active at
http://www.destraynor.com/serendipity/

Haven't publicised it much yet cause I'm still checking things.

The guide was excellent. The only difficulty I had was that I couldn't copy over my serendipity_config_local.inc.php file, because I didn't own it. The sys-admin made a copy for me though. Otherwise, all is good in da hood.

Cheers,
Des

azel · Post by **azel** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 9:52 pm

Cool, lookin' good.

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 4:59 am

Okay everything worked grand except the comment form.
For some reason, comments are working, but after you comment it's redirecting the user back to here:

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http://destraynor.com/destraynor.com/serendipity/index.php?url=archives/26-How-to-get-music-off-your-iPod.html&serendipity[csuccess]=moderate#feedback

Instead of here

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http://destraynor.com/serendipity/index.php?url=archives/26-How-to-get-music-off-your-iPod.html&serendipity[csuccess]=moderate#feedback

So basically it's stick an extra destraynor.com in there.

My config is ...

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serendipityPath  	/home/dez/public_html/destraynor.com/serendipity/

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serendipityHTTPPath  	/serendipity/

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baseURL  	http://www.destraynor.com/serendipity/

So I am guessing one of those 3 is wrong. Any ideas?

(Everything else seems to be working, by the way)

azel · Post by **azel** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 6:09 am

I wonder if it might have something to do with your .htaccess file, because your settings are all correct..

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:23 pm

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#RewriteEngine on
# BEGIN s9y
DirectoryIndex /serendipity/index.php
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value register_globals off
<Files *.tpl>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.sql>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.inc.php>
    deny from all
</Files>

<Files *.db>
    deny from all
</Files>

# END s9y

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Sat Nov 25, 2006 1:39 pm

I think it's this line in index.php thats giving me 2 domain names in the output...
$sc_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . (strstr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '?') ? '&' : '?') . 'serendipity[csuccess]=' . (isset($serendipity['csuccess']) ? $serendipity['csuccess'] : 'true');

Is it possible that the name of the directory (destraynor.com) is confusing it?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 1:36 am

Hi!

Hm, the REQUEST_URI comes straight frmo the webserver. how does that variable look like before modification, have you tried to echo it somehow?

Regards,
Garvin

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:43 pm

http://www.destraynor.com/serendipity/i ... l#comments

4.2 billion comments?

Interesting

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:06 pm

I'm not sure I follow Garving, where shoud I be echoing this variable?

[also, if anyone can think of a quick hack to get things back to normal, please let me know]

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:17 pm

Interesting, I upgraded (1.1 beta 5) and things have started working again

I still have 4 billion comments, but I can live with that for the moment.

Thanks for your help guys.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:13 am

Hi!

The comment count was a bug of earlier s9y versions that could sometime happen when deleting unmoderated postings. You will need to fix that entry count using phpMyAdmin and editing the 'comments' column for that entry in the table serendipity_entries.

HTH,
Garvin

destraynor · Post by **destraynor** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:08 pm

Once again thanks.

Another, slightly weird question.

Why is http://destraynor.com/serendipity/archives/ now pointing to an empty folder. I realise that archives is some sort of dummy directory, but I can't see how it is supposed to display anything.

(obviously this is something else that worked on the old server but not on teh new one)