By rl on

Happy New Year!

I am relocating my drupal site from my sites public_html/drup474 to public_html so that my site url is now mysite.com instead of mysite.com/drup474. After I moved the files and changed the settings.php file I expected things to work. I get something, but no themes and no ability to log in. Any idea what else I need to change?

Thanks

Rich

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rl commented

I needed to edit the database backup I made with the backup module (or you could use your phpmyadmin program or other database backup method). My backup was in ascii form. I edited the file and made a search and replace of the old path with the new. There were thousands of them. Created a new database (using cpanel in my case) and imported the edited database with pypmyadmin. Edited settings.php to point to the new database and all is well.

Cheers

Rich

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nancydru
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The only mentions I see of the path on my PC is in Watchdog entries, which I am assuming I really don't need on the remote server.

My host forces a prefix on my database and usernames; I don't know if that's a problem.

I added that prefix onto my $db_url, but Drupal keeps telling me that it couldn't connect. I'm totally lost now.

Nancy W.
proudly running 3½ sites on Drupal so far

NancyDru

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cog.rusty commented

If it appears "themeless" it is almost certainly a problem with your $base_url in your /sites/default/settings.php. If you have set one, try to disable it with a # in front now that you are not in a subdirectory.

Also make sure that your .htacess file has been moved along with all the other files, because it is a "hidden" file, and a normal copy or move command leaves it behind.