[pmwiki-users] Switching Hosts

[DaveG]

I redid the whole process again. Same result. The pagelist simply does 
not behave in the same way as the original site.

DaveG wrote:
> Followed your process, and now have exactly the same problem -- the 
> category footer isn't playing :) Everything went pretty smoothly (notes 
> below), with no major errors or deviations.
> 
> I also now have a problem with with wiki.d/counter attributes
> 
>   ~ ~ Dave
> 
> H. Fox wrote:
> 
>>On 1/15/06, DaveG <pmwiki at solidgone.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm stumped. I've tried downloading my current site, and uploading to
>>>the new host. I change the config file. The Category.Groupfooter does
>>>not seem to get applied to pages in the Category group.
>>>
>>>I've tried using two different FTP clients. I've downloaded, and
>>>reuploaded three times, deleting everything except the wiki.d directory
>>>(I deleted the content of wiki.d though), to retain the permissions on
>>>the directory which I let pmwiki create.
>>>
>>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>Do you have shell access?  If so, I'll take a shot at it.  (Even if
>>not, you might be able to "translate" to what you can do with the
>>tools you have available.)
>>
>>Upload the old site, in its entirety data and all, to the pmwiki/
>>directory.  Better yet would be to zip the old site and unzip it to
>>the new one.
>>
>>First, assure all directories and files from the old site are readable
>>
>>   find -type d pmwiki | xargs chmod 755 *
>>   find -type f pmwiki | xargs chmod 644 *
> 
> The find command failed. I moved the -type arg to after the folder name:
>      find pmwiki -type d | xargs chmod 755 *
>      find pmwiki -type f | xargs chmod 644 *
> 
> However, this set attributes on all folders so I could not read anything 
> :) I manually changed all folders to 755 and files to 644 via TP client.
> 
> 
> 
>>Now rename that directory so we can do a fresh, from-scratch installation.
>>
>>   mv pmwiki pmwiki.old
>>
>>Next do a fresh installation of the same PmWiki version your old site
>>is running.
>>
>>   wget http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-2.1.beta14.tgz
>>   tar -zxvf pmwiki-2.1.beta14.tgz
>>   mv pmwiki-2.1.beta14 pmwiki
>>   chmod 2777 pmwiki
>>   #Visit the new wiki so it can create a wiki.d/ directory.
>>
>>Next you want to let PmWiki create the upload directory and group
>>subdirectories.  Use a minimal local/config.php with your values for
>>upload-related settings
>>
>>   #Upload an image file to each group that has uploads.
>>   chmod 755 pmwiki
>>
>>Next copy your files over the new copy of pmwiki
>>
>>   cp -a pmwiki-old/. pmwiki
>>
>>Now test.  Any luck?  Hopefully so.  Either way, you might want to
>>finish with a fresh "upgrade".
>>
>>   tar -zxvf pmwiki-2.1.beta14.tgz
>>   cp -a pmwiki-2.1.beta14/. pmwiki
>>
>>Hagan
>>
> 
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