Re: Moving Server [Installation Troubleshooting]

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Moving Server

2006/4/5 4:38
seolio
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Posts: 196
Since: 2005/11/2

Just moving servers with one of my XOOPS sites, and am struggling, it says:
Quote:

XOOPS path check: Script is not inside XOOPS_ROOT_PATH and cannot run.

Can somebody help, I copied everything directly, and changed the db path etc.. in mainfile.php.

What else could be wrong, this happened before but I gave up trying in the end, but I really need to move this site as my host is charging rediculous costs for bandwidth, i.e. £60 just for bandwidth on top of my monthly cost!!

My new host is part of my reseller acount, anyway, the url at the moment is, http://72.20.4.6/~donotenter/enter/

You will see what I mean
Please can somebody help me this time?

Thanks in Advance

Nick

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Re: Moving Server

2006/4/5 8:22
adrock
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Posts: 291
Since: 2004/12/7

well....
can you show us what your mainfile is currently showing?

Each host/server is set up differently, so the path you use may need to be altered to match the new hosts set-up.
for instance at host A:
Quote:

// XOOPS Physical Path
// Physical path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash
// Example: define('XOOPS_ROOT_PATH', '/home/www/mydomain.com');

// This is the same path as you'd see in your ftp app...each host/environment is a little different.

define('XOOPS_ROOT_PATH', '/home/www/mydomain.com');

// XOOPS Virtual Path (URL)
// Virtual path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash
// Example: define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://www.my domain.com');
define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://www.mydomain.com');

but at host b:
Quote:

// XOOPS Physical Path
// Physical path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash
// Example: define('XOOPS_ROOT_PATH', '/hsphere/local/home/userid/sub-if-any.domain.com');
define('XOOPS_ROOT_PATH', '/hsphere/local/home/userid/sub-if-any.domain.com');

// XOOPS Virtual Path (URL)
// Virtual path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash
// Example: define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://my.domain.com');
define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://my.domain.com');

As you can see, these two hosts will not exactly swap across path structure.....

A quick easy way to see what the new host is doing is to install XOOPS into a new folder, and see what it tells you when it prompts you for the directory answers, as it will detect the correct path and initially populate it on it's own.

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Re: Moving Server

2006/4/5 8:28
jdseymour
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Posts: 3782
Since: 2004/11/11

And a couple of additional items to remember:

If DNS is not transferred, as it seems your's is not, http://www.mydomain.com will not work as the virtual path, temporarily change it to the actual until you change the DNS.

Also, if you transfer files located inside the templates_c and cache folders, they will be compiled from the old paths, make sure you delete the files contained in these folders (except for index.html).

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Re: Moving Server

2006/4/5 9:47
stefan88
Community Support Member
Posts: 1086
Since: 2004/9/20

Also don't forget for any XOOPS or module hacks, that may have hardcoded path ...

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Re: Moving Server

2006/4/5 11:17
carnuke
Home away from home
Posts: 1955
Since: 2003/11/5

The first check is to drop an index.html into the root of the webspace

 <html> 
<head>head> 
<body> 
This is my site root 
body> 
html>

Now call your site IP http://72.20.4.6/~donotenter/, or whatever the root address is and make sure the index page displays. It will take precedance of index.php of the XOOPS site, so dont forget to remove it!

If the page show OK, now call your domain name. If it displays the same page, it's resolved ok. If not, you have to wait a while.

Also make sure that your site URL is set correctly I mean

http://***** or http://www.***** it make a difference.

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search xoops

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Re: Moving Server

2006/4/5 19:32
seolio
Not too shy to talk
Posts: 196
Since: 2005/11/2

Thanks all for your help,
I will have to try it all later on as the server has just gone down, Thanks, will reply again when server is back up and I have tried your tips.

Thanks All

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Re: Moving Server

2006/4/7 1:20
seolio
Not too shy to talk
Posts: 196
Since: 2005/11/2

Quote:

adrock wrote:
well....
can you show us what your mainfile is currently showing?

 if ( !defined("XOOPS_MAINFILE_INCLUDED") ) { 
    define("XOOPS_MAINFILE_INCLUDED",1); 
 
    // XOOPS Physical Path 
    // Physical path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash 
    // Example: define('XOOPS_ROOT_PATH', '/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/donotenter.co.uk/httpdocs/enter'); 
    define('XOOPS_ROOT_PATH', '/home/donotenter/public_html/enter'); 
 
    // XOOPS Virtual Path (URL) 
    // Virtual path to your main XOOPS directory WITHOUT trailing slash 
    // Example: define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://72.20.8.200/~donotenter/enter'); 
    define('XOOPS_URL', 'http://72.20.8.200/~donotenter/enter'); 
 
    define('XOOPS_CHECK_PATH', '1'); 
    // Protect against external scripts execution if safe mode is not enabled 
    if ( XOOPS_CHECK_PATH && !@ini_get('safe_mode') ) { 
        if ( function_exists('debug_backtrace') ) { 
            $xoopsScriptPath = debug_backtrace(); 
            if ( !count($xoopsScriptPath) ) { 
                 die("XOOPS path check: this file cannot be requested directly"); 
            } 
            $xoopsScriptPath = $xoopsScriptPath[0]['file'];

Sorry it has taken so long, I have been really busy recently.

here is the mainfile.php, the parts that you wanted to see!

I changed the path as it is on another one of my sites on the same server, except for the /donotenter/enter part.

Hope you can help because it still isn't working.

Thanks all....

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Re: Moving Server

2006/4/7 1:27
seolio
Not too shy to talk
Posts: 196
Since: 2005/11/2

Me again,
Sorry for all of your trouble guys and thanks for all your help, I got onto my host, and he said that even though I host both on my reseller, the new domain, donotneter.co.uk, has been put on the new server, so he gave me the path and it works correctly now, thanks again....

Nick

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