replace old site

[talsadmin2]

I am currently creating a new website to run on version 4 and this has been created in a sub folder called dev.mysite. Everything works fine and I am ready to replace the old site with the new one. My question is can I copy all the files from the new site to replace the files in the old site in the root folder and will everything work OK with just changing details in the configuration file after? Or is there a different procedure to do this, I don't really want to do a re-direct as has been suggested before.

Regards

[gws]

I would use Akeeba backup and kickstart.php, this way all the paths and permissions will be correct.

[Per Yngve Berg]

https://docs.joomla.org/Moving_the_site ... irectories

[AMurray]

You need to move not only the files and folders but the database as well (your database is your site).

Additional to @per and @gws comments,
https://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website. Refer to the method using Akeeba as mentioned above.

[Per Yngve Berg]

You need to move not only the files and folders but the database as well (your database is your site).

Not needed. The database is not in the folder. Only move the database when you move to another server.

[talsadmin2]

Yes the database is on the same server so thank you Per I will do it that way

Regards

[talsadmin2]

Hi, I have successfully transferred my site from a development folder to the public_html folder and everything seems to work OK. However when clicking on some article links they seem to open that article in the development site. How can I rectify this?

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[AMurray]

The wrong links might be because you have $live_site with a value, which should be (normally) empty. That would be my first check. Open the configuration file, find that variable, and delete whatever value. it should be "no value" - just two single quotes with no space between them.

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$live_site='';

I'd also remove the development site completely. (If you did that and then tried those links I'd expect 404 errors).

[talsadmin2]

Hi Murray, thanks for the reply. I have looked at the configuration file and the $live_site is empty. Anything else I should look at? I would be a bit nervous about removing the development site completely as it's all pointing to that at the moment.

Regards

[AMurray]

perhaps then absolute urls (which point to dev site) rather than relative URLs?

[talsadmin2]

Hi, I have noticed the following lines of code in the configuration file -

public $log_path = '/home/t0pr2/public_html/site2/administrator/logs';
public $tmp_path = '/home/t0pr2/public_html/site2/tmp';

Should the /site2/ be there? Will it make any difference if I remove it?

regards