I've created a forum using phpBB3,
The address I got is : http://<FORUM NAME>.com/phpBB3
I would like to change it to http://<FORUM NAME>.com (without the phpBB3)
Is it possible to create another forum addressed to the second URL I mentioned, that uses the same SQL database as the first forum?
The /phpbb3 part of the URL refers to the directory on the server that your forum is installed in. If you move all of the folders and files out of the phpbb3 directory into your websites root directory (usually either htdocs or public_html) then the URL will then become http://<FORUM NAME>.com This is best done via FTP and not your hosts file manager to help prevent corruption of any files.
Only do this if you don't already have pages at http://<FORUM_NAME>.com otherwise you will overwrite anything already there that share any file names.
If you do move everything, once finished log into your phpBB admin control panel and under 'Server configuration -> Server settings' make sure 'Force server URL settings' is set to 'No' and all the internal links on your board will adapt themselves to the new URL.
IMPORTANT! Before you do ANYTHING make sure you download a backup of the files and the database, then if anything goes wrong you can easily put things back again.
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I have a client who wants to move their hosting provider and we have successfully cloned exact copy of original server to the new hosting provider's server. We want to use different domain name staging.copiedsite.com to creating staging environment to check everything works fine, then we want to flicker it back to original DNS (www.actualsite.com). My question is, how do you configure the site to work with staging domain name? I am going to basically find all database record that says "www.actualsite.com" and replace it with "staging.copiedsite.com". Is that all it needs? Is there any configuration text file that I need to edit? Thanks.
You shall change the domain in BackOffice > Preferences > SEO & URLs. This will update configuration in database and your .htaccess file (For some obscure reason you might have to save this page two times so that the .htaccess file is overwritten).
Also some CMS pages and modules can use absolute URLs so changing all those values by querying the database is a good idea.
Basically that's all you need.
I've setup a VPS with apache2.
I am using cloudflare for DNS management.
Now, I have my websites's files in "var/www/website" folder. Inside that, there is another folder for forum. like "var/www/website/forum" inside which there are all forum related files.
Now, suppose I have www.website.com pointing to "var/www/website"
and I also have a subdomain forum.website.com pointing to "var/www/website/forum".
What I want to do is make the files inside "var/www/website/forum" accessible via subdomain only. I don't want users to access forum via www.website.com/forum, but I want them to access it only via "forum.website.com"
What you need to do is set up what's called a virtual host. You would put your forum at /var/www/forum and website at /var/www/website.
inside /etc/apache2/sites-available, you'll need to add an additional configuration file for that site called forum.website.com.conf.
You'll then need to create a symbolic link to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled for that file so that apache sees it. From there, you reboot the server and are good to go.
Here's some documentation:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/examples.html
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-apache-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-14-04-lts
This may be a bit different depending on the flavor of linux, but should be about the same. Control panels like Cpanel, Plesk and WebMan can make this process a bit easier by abstracting the configuration to a web control panel.
Hope this helps you.
I had a shared hosting package with 1and1 and I just moved over to their VPS hosting that uses Plesk. I already had the domains moved over the VPS server and I already uploaded all of the files via FTP.
I talked to an agent yesterday and he helped me setup the main page on the website so that it would go to the appropriate root directory. The main website is working properly whenever I go the main domain name, however, whenever I go to website.com/blank or website.com/stuff, I receive a 404 error.
The strange part is that I see the files in Plesk file manager, I just don't know why they are not displaying properly. I didn't change anything in the migration process.
I did not change the code on any of the pages and I have contacted their customer support team a number of times, but they have been unable to resolve the issue.
Can anyone tell me what I should do to make sure that the files are associated with the correct pages?
Have you checked the permission for the files and folder under your domain, this seems to be an issue with either your ownership or permission of the files. And if thats not the problem it could even be your .htaccess file.. make sure you have transferred your .htaccess file as well from old shared hosting to new VPS.
I am learning how to use SQL, I set up a localhost, in the course of that journey, I was confronted to the issue of importing sql files into phpMyAdmin, I did the right click on config.inc.php and clicked on the Notepad++ that I previously installed, I typed in there the following code: $cfg['UploadDir']='c:\Files';, of course I created on the hard drive C the Files directory. Now that I came back into phpMyAdmin, clicked on my database, clicked on import, this is what I got as message:
The directory you set for upload work cannot be reached.
Can anyone help me here with this issue?
Your webserver probably doesn't have permission to read 'c:\Files' thus it is not a valid directory. Technically you would say this is out of the web root.
I suggest you set the upload directory to a subdirectory of your web server's root directory (or in the PHPMyAdmin web directory). Then if for your own ease of use you want it to be located at 'c:\Files' you can create a shortcut from the web root upload directory whatever you name it, and place the shortcut in 'c:' and name it 'Files'.
I've just finished moving a Wordpress site to a new server. The domain has not changed, nor has the directory that Wordpress is installed in; the only thing that has changed is the machine it happens to be on.
The only problem I seem to have had as a result is that my permalinks aren't working, and when I go into the permalink settings, it claims that my .htaccess is unwrittable. For testing sake my .htaccess is currently CHMOD777, so it definitely is.
Any suggestions?
I have experienced problems in changing file permissions through FTP sometimes; CPanel always works. So try doing it from your host's control panel.
If that doesn't work, try editing .htaccess file manually. Follow this link to learn how to.
Your files may be 'owned' by a different user, especially if your hosting provider moved the files for you or if you used a script. If you continue to have problems, ask your hosting provider to check if the owner and permissions are set correctly on the files.
The permalinks themselves aren't working, i.e. the rules already in the .htaccess file from the previous server aren't taking effect. Mod rewrite, header and expire weren't installed. If a moderator wants to delete this silly question please feel free.