site migration and file system paths

Submitted by ATB on Tue, 2010-09-07 15:12

I have been creating a site for a local business on a volunteer basis, and now that I have migrated to production version, I am having some issues with file system paths. I am using drupal 6 with a multisite installation (shared code base). The main domain is orkaeko.com. The dev site is mkd.orkaeko.com and is in the path /sites/mkd.orkaeko.com. I copied this folder to minakamikarate.com and also copied the DB. After rebuilding permissions, etc. etc. everything works. However, the file system is still set to sites/mkd.orkaeko.com/files. When I change this to sites/minakamikarate.com/files, things get pretty messed up. For example templates/themes no longer work. I tried updating the file paths in the DB (for files, blocks, nodes, and node teasers) and even went so far as to use an editor to replace all mkd.orkaeko.com with minakamikarate.com, but it didn't help.

Does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with this?

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try symlink

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msteudel - Tue, 2010-09-07 16:43

If you completely run into a wall and can't get the drupal system to repoint to the new files system, try using a symlink if you are on a linux.

MS


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Sitedir_migrate

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chillin411 - Tue, 2010-09-07 17:23

There's a module that I've used in the past called sitedir_migrate that looks like what you need to solve your issue. That module fixes most things, just not the settings within the actual theme, if I remember correctly. That's simple enough to fix from the UI though.


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used sitedir_migrate, still experiencing problems

ATB - Wed, 2010-09-08 05:19

Hi,

I tried sitedir_migrate and everything went fine up until the point where I entered the new filepath (last step). At that point I have admin pages with no theme, and my non-admin pages are white with the word "grid" on them. Here is the error message I receive from drupal:

The selected file /tmp/filefYBd5D could not be uploaded, because the destination sites/minakamikarate.com/files/css/css_4f595776df7e9337f8810bdc59c261db.css is not properly configured.

I would appreciate any thoughts on what might be wrong.


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Ouch

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chillin411 - Wed, 2010-09-08 13:34

Well, that sounds like a fun error. Was that after you cleared your cache?

The only thing else I would guess there is permissions on the files directory of the new site.


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Hi atb, If custom themes and

joanpc - Sat, 2010-09-11 22:54

Hi atb,

If custom themes and modules are well made. You just have to follow 3 steps

  1. Update the files table -> UPDATE files SET filepath = REPLACE(filepath, "files/", "sites/SITEDOMAIN/files/");
  2. make writable the files directory: chmod -R 777 sites/minakamikarate.com/files, or chown www-data -R sites/minakamikarate.com/files
    (www-data is the webserver user on debian.)
  3. Clear the cache on admin/settings/performance

If there are non-relative urls on the content and/or themes there's more work to do :(


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