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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:54 am 
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Hi, im a noob to joomla and looking for some help with a site a moved to a new host and new domain name.

Joomla 1.7

joomspirit_18 template

once i moved the files and database, i changed the configuration.php. the site successfully pull up, but the links wont work now. the old site works fine, so i know its something im missing. i changed the favicon, and when i click on a main menu link the favicon changes to the old one. i think its redirecting to the old site based on that, but i dont know. when i clock on one i get...

"Not Found

The requested URL /business-services.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

i talked to the new host, and they are not sure. the tech guessed that is looking for a .html that wasnt present in the website folder, but thats not true cause the old site is identicle.

old site... everything works great

www.ditaz.com

new site... no menu links

www.computerstudio.us

again i changed only the configuration.php, and im sure i need to change something else i cant find. please help.

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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 3:59 am 
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It looks like the issue could be with the file .htaccess

(a) Have you copied this file to the new domain?

(b) What is the entry you have in the line that has the keyword RewriteBase?

(c) Are you making use of the variable $live_site in the file configuration.php?

(d) Is your new domain has any redirect to the old domain?

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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:24 am 
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when i originally migrated over i was having trouble with getting redirects to the old domain. i deleted the .htaccess file and that problem was fixed. i just tried dropping the old .htaccess back in and it for sure redirects to the old site.

my config.php lloks like this...

<?php
class JConfig {
public $offline = '0';
public $offline_message = 'Comming Soon';
public $sitename = 'Computer Studio';
public $editor = 'tinymce';
public $list_limit = '20';
public $root_user = '42';
public $access = '1';
public $dbtype = 'mysql';
public $host = 'localhost';
public $user = 'comput99_kshirza';
public $password = '******';
public $db = 'comput99_CS';
public $dbprefix = 'jos_';
public $secret = '71406a2109ab3f3af4f3336fdf958681';
public $gzip = '0';
public $error_reporting = '-1';
public $helpurl = 'http://help.joomla.org/proxy/index.php?option=com_help&keyref=Help{major}{minor}:{keyref}';
public $ftp_host = '';
public $ftp_port = '';
public $ftp_user = '';
public $ftp_pass = '';
public $ftp_root = '';
public $ftp_enable = '0';
public $tmp_path = '/tmp';
public $log_path = '/var/logs';
public $live_site = 'http://computerstudio.us/';
public $force_ssl = '0';
public $offset = 'UTC';
public $offset_user = 'UTC';
public $lifetime = '15';
public $session_handler = 'database';
public $mailer = 'mail';
public $mailfrom = 'support@computerstudio.us';
public $fromname = 'computerstudio.us';
public $sendmail = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
public $smtpauth = '0';
public $smtpuser = 'kshirza1';
public $smtppass = 'hondaep4';
public $smtphost = 'localhost';
public $caching = '0';
public $cachetime = '15';
public $cache_handler = 'file';
public $debug = '0';
public $debug_lang = '0';
public $MetaDesc = 'Computer Studio - Providing In-home, Business, and retail computer services to the phoenix metro area.';
public $MetaKeys = 'computer studio, Computers, Sales, Repair, Virus Removal, Computer Repair, Custom, Custom Computers, Outsourced IT Services, Business IT, Business computers, Networking, Data Recovery, Data Management, Phoenix, Arizona, North Valley, ';
public $MetaTitle = '1';
public $MetaAuthor = '0';
public $sef = '1';
public $sef_rewrite = '1';
public $sef_suffix = '1';
public $unicodeslugs = '0';
public $feed_limit = '10';
public $feed_email = 'site';
public $smtpsecure = 'none';
public $smtpport = '25';
public $MetaRights = 'Computer Studio';
public $sitename_pagetitles = '1';
public $cookie_domain = '';
public $cookie_path = '';
}


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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:35 am 
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Try the following and see what happens:

In the new site,

(a) delete the file .htaccess
(b) copy the file htaccess.txt that is available in the directory where Joomla! site is to the file .htaccess

Is there a reason why you are using the variable $live_site in the file configuration.php?

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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 4:51 am 
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no reason why im using the variable $live_site in the file configuration.php other than the fact that it was used for the old site and i simply modified it for the new domain.

by deleting the .htaccess tranfered from the old director i can get the site to work without redirecting completely to the old site. this is where the menu link do not work.

i dont understand the instructions for (b), but i am eager to try it. please re phrase.


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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 5:09 am 
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There should be a file named htaccess.txt in the root directory of your site. Make a copy of the file. After making the copy, rename the file to .htaccess

You could do this from the cPanel of your host services using utilities such as File Manager.

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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2012 6:38 pm 
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imanickam wrote:
There should be a file named htaccess.txt in the root directory of your site. Make a copy of the file. After making the copy, rename the file to .htaccess

You could do this from the cPanel of your host services using utilities such as File Manager.


Thank you very much!

i deleted the current .htaccess

changing the htaccess.txt to .htaccess worked!!


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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2012 2:22 am 
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one more issue is that when i click on my "get you quote today" picture link i get redirected to the old site. could

computerstudio.us


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