The Forgettful Website Developer

moving wordpress site

After copying files and db content:

1. Edit wp-config.php with new db content
2. edit .htaccess (if parent folder name of wp has changed)
3. using phpMyAdmin (as instructioned in the above link)…
4. update all absolute URLs to new domain eg.
   UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘http://www.old-domain.com’, ‘http://www.new-domain.com’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ’siteurl’;
5. UPDATE wp_posts SET guid = replace(guid, 'http://www.old-domain.com','http://www.new-domain.com');
6. UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');

Some good webpages out there:

My slight different process/follow up includes:

• before uploading SQL content:
• find/replace in sql export:

• ’ with \‘

  “ with “

  ” with “

  – with -

  (else question marks show up in my article via)

• for some reason <sitename>/administrator doesn’t work anymore but <sitename>/administrator/index.php does

• beginning with
• copy Joomla site to new host (includes mysql export and file backup)
• tutorials
• visual tutorials

Getting started

• using templates
• beginners (what’s in the core, SEO)
• quickstart
• convert existing site to Joomla
• sections and categories - what’s the diff?
  • seo, section (like a book section) , category (like a book chapter), article (book page)
  • lots of good info on right also
• what are the steps?
• add modules before section/category?
• how do keywords fit in all this?

Moving a dev site to live

• going live
• moving Joomla 1.5 host to another Move - ensure owner has write access on configuration.php
  • chown - requires linux on own machine (unpack tar, chown, repack, then upload) - else you’ll need web host to unpack it on the server, chown it themselves
  • log_path, tmp_path, db stuff

Google search:

• Joomla “building a website”

Good results, some very good blogs

http://www.squidoo.com/building-a-joomla-website

http://www.compassdesigns.net/joomla-blog/Chicago-Joomla-EXPO-Presentation-Building-a-Successful-Website-with-Joomla-1.5.html

http://www.buildajoomlawebsite.com/freebies/Frontend.html

http://www.website-doityourself.com/

http://www.compassdesigns.net/tutorials.html

http://www.myjoomlacast.com