By vonny007 on

Hi Guys,

Iv moved over to a new web host, everything seemed to be working fine until i tried clicking a link the error says - "404 Not Found :The server can not find the requested page: 78.129.178.110/~sunkendr/og (port 80)",

..currently i have a temporary address of: http://78.129.178.110/~sunkendr/ I was wondering is there a way to get the links to point to the temporary address?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

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arh1 commented

depending on how you're writing your content, what modules you're using, what editor you're using (e.g. rich-text like FCKeditor or TinyMCE), the links in your content may be relative (e.g. 'path/to/page'), absolute (e.g. 'http://example.com/path/to/page'), or "root relative" (e.g. '/path/to/page') which means "add this path right after the domain/host name in the URL".

the best way to handle this issue generally, IMHO, is to create all of your sites -- dev, staging, production, test site on a new host, etc -- as peers of each other, and use root relative links.

so, first of all be sure you're using root relative links and have your modules/editor configured to do the same. then, assuming your production site is at http://example.com and you're moving to a new host, point an A record for something like http://new.example.com to your new host's IP address.

similarly, you might create a local dev site at http://dev.example.com , a staging site for site editors at http://staging.example.com , etc. the use of root relative links will ensure that your db is portable across all of these sites.

hth!