Moving Drupal Troubles!!!!!!

By daviqh on 1 Nov 2005 at 21:23 UTC

Hi, I just moved drupal from a sub-domain to its real domain(www.mashband.org) and on some computers, the old site shows up, on some the new site shows up w/out the pics, and the links are screwed up. Any ideas what I did wrong? Is it wrong to move Drupal around?

David

Comments

Cache?

smallfluffykat commented 1 November 2005 at 21:33

It sounds like on some computers your old site has been cached in the browser and therefore still looks OK. I'm afraid that it sounds like that the computers that are showing the site all wrong are showing the /actual site/ rather than the cached version. Have you checked that your settings.php now correctly reflects the location of your new site.

PS: To check the cache problem find a computer that's showing your site ok, clear the browser cache and then reload it. See if it looks screwy or OK.

(Just tried the link you gave and it seemed to give a static HTML site rather than a Drupal site - I'm confused :-?)

quick one..

Dublin Drupaller commented 1 November 2005 at 21:36

did you remember to change the BASE_URL in the settings.php file?

that will cause the problems you have described.

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

Did you change $base_url?

gerd riesselmann commented 1 November 2005 at 21:37

Did you change $base_url in the settings.php? It is most likely located under /sites/default/.

If so, try deleting everything from the cache table using phpMyAdmin:

DELETE FROM cache;

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Yes i did make sure to

daviqh commented 1 November 2005 at 21:39

Yes i did make sure to change the settings.php file-->don't worry...

Any other suggestions?

David

just tried your site..

Dublin Drupaller commented 1 November 2005 at 21:43

Hi David,

Just tried that link...browser spent almost 5 minutes loading nothing....is it working or have you taken it down?

Dub

Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate

DNS?

webwright commented 1 November 2005 at 21:45

You should REALLY post URLs with issues like this. What was the old URL? What's the new URL? http://www.mashband.org/services.html appears to be plain ol' HTML.

Show me a page that is broken and I can take a look at it.

If any of the moves have involved changing a DNS record, it can take 24-48 hours for DNS info to propogate... Any time I hear that it's "screwed up on some computers", that often indicates a DNS issue (or a caching issue).

If it is a DNS issue, the good news is that it usually works itself out.

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