By email68 on

I have a virtual host w/o a domain name. I'm testing a migration to the new host.

So the address I have to work with is http://ipaddress/~name

I can FTP and use the cpanel to access this site. I uploaded the drupal6.2tar file and upzipped.

When I went through the process after putting in the database information, I get a lot of errors similar to this:

/public_html/drupal/includes/install.inc on line 618
/public_html/drupal/includes/install.inc on line 619

I'm pretty sure this has to do with the ~name and that its not setup as a domain name.

Is there a way to install drupal on this site for testing?

Thanks
Tim

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gadams commented

try removing the ~ from the folder path.

You can install Drupal on servers using the IP Address instead of a domain name.

In this instance you will only need a vhost file for the ip address and directories that your site is stored in.
<VirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80>

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email68 commented

The way I understand it is that there are several sites under the IP address. Then the virtual sites are isolated by the ~name of each user.

So I cannot remove the ~ since that would not get me access to my area of the server.

I could be wrong, but this is how I understand it.

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bitradiator commented

The tilde (~) is an alias for the path to your home directory, usually something like /home/username. Instead of ~ use the complete path starting from the servers root.

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woodp commented

I have a similar problem in that I'm trying to move a site from a domain to a numeric ip address.

www.domain.com -> 12.34.56.78/~domain

Moving the files and the database was the easy part. Then I edited the $db_url and $baseurl values in settings.php to:

$db_url = 'mysqli://domain_admin:password@localhost/domain_drupal';
$base_url = 'http://12.34.56.78/home/domain';

Now, when I go to 12.34.56.78/~domain, I receive the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function db_query() in /home/domain/public_html/includes/session.inc on line 32

It looks like my $db_url string is wrong but it's configured identical to my other Drupal 6 sites. Any thoughts about what's going on?