Moving from development site with 'development-domain.com' to production site with 'production-domain.com'

Thanks Ken! This module is fantastic. Thank you so much for your work on it!

I wish I was good enough to do this "Starting a back port of that module [Domain Alias] to D5 would be very helpful." I have not done any module development at all, but I will have a look at it at least.

Just reporting for others that

$conf['domain_root'] = '123.45.678'; // Your IP or hostname for the live site.

worked great except you also have to comment out:

$cookie_domain = 'yourdomain.com';

in settings.php to get login to work.

Continuing saga:

I am now in the process of moving this site to my client's production server (their own in house server). To test it there I though I would run the whole site in a folder first, before putting it in the root of the server (because their old site is there live now).

So, my settings.php has this in it for production:

$base_url = 'http://123.123.23.24/drupaldevel';

$cookie_domain = '123.123.23.24';

$conf['domain_root'] = '123.123.23.24'; (last line of settings PHP)

I am accessing the site via: http://123.123.23.24/drupaldevel/

I can login OK and the site works OK EXCEPT I cannot access any of the admin pages. Any admin page I try to go to just never loads - browser says loading but it never loads.

Now, this server is different in many ways from the development server. One difference is that devel server was MySQL 4.1 and production server is 5.x. Also production server does not have mysqli support, so I have to change connection from:

$db_url = 'mysqli://username:password@localhost/databasename';

to:

$db_url = 'mysql://username:password@localhost/databasename';

Any advice appreciated. Thanks.

Changing to active - and sorry as this is likely nothing directly related to domain access.

OK I will comment out $base_url. Then to use the site in a folder can I do this?

$conf['domain_root'] = '123.123.23.24/folder'; (I will try it - the production server is actually down right now so I can't).

Strange: it is only the /admin/* pages that are not loading. Wondering what is different about those than all other pages.

---update---

This didn't work: $conf['domain_root'] = '123.123.23.24/folder'; and also doesn't work if I don't use $base_url.

I might try to see if I can disable Domain Access modules via phpMyAdmin (not sure if possible) to see if that helps me able to get to admin pages to help see if Domain Access is anything to do with this problem (as opposed to MySQL differences between devel and production discussed above).

I just wanted to update that the problem I encountered when moving to the production server had something to do with Update Status module. When I disabled it (via phpMyAdmin) I could then get to my production sites admin pages. Perhaps Update Status was hanging trying to phone home or whatever it does.

Thank you so much for your help.

DA is a fantastic module with fantastic documentation and help!