New postnuke site

[Jim Herrmann]

dt at xr7.org wrote:

>On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Jim Herrmann wrote:
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>>I have a new PostNuke site that has been under development in a /new/ 
>>subdirectory of my htdocs, so that I access the site with 
>>www.domain.tld/new/ which gives me the nuke home page.  I am just about 
>>ready to take this to production, and I would like to move everything up 
>>a directory so that the nuke is the main home page, i.e. 
>>www.domain.tld.  What would be the best way to do this?  Would the mv 
>>command be the best, and if so any tips on options to make it go 
>>smooth?  If I mv everything, would it have to update every file in the 
>>whole tree structure, or only the first level of files and directories 
>>within the /new/ directory? 
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>Because there's more than just PostNuke to my site, I left it in it's 
>subdirectory.  Stick this in as /index.php:
><?php
>  header("Location: new/index.php");
>?>
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>Cheapest way to force the whole site to 'appear' to be PostNuke.  Olus, 
>when you want to change to new.2, you can easily do so.
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>>Also, any thoughts from you PostNukers out there about what 
>>configuration parameters to be aware of?  I've tried to be careful to 
>>make everything use relative links, and thus not specify the /new/ 
>>directory, but I suppose that there could still be some broken links.  
>>Is this going to mess up any of the modules?  I know that the gallery 
>>module will need to be reconfigured to work correctly.  Are there others 
>>that you are aware of?  I've already gone through changing the directory 
>>from /nuke/ to /new/ and most everything except the gallery worked well.
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>Hmmm...I don't recall having to do anything special to Gallery to make it 
>work.  But it's primary location is still outside the PN tree at /gallery.
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To use Gallery as a module within postnuke, all you have to do is put it 
in the modules directory.  The albums directory can be outside the PN 
tree, but to work as a PN module, the gallery directory needs to be in 
the tree.  I suppose if you want to us gallery outside of PN, then you 
would leave the way you have it.  What happened with the configuration 
is when I changed the directory from nuke to new, some things got lost 
as there are places in the configuration that have the full URL.  So, I 
suppose they could even be on another website.  Hmmm.  Interesting idea.

Anyway, it looks like redirect is the way to go, then any full URLs 
would still work.

Thanks,
Jim