Problems moving to a localhost server

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jeffsydor Reply #1, 6 years, 9 months ago

I'm having issues with moving a copy of a website to my local machine. I've moved other sites before and didn't have this level of issues.

Here's what I've done so far:

Downloaded the databases as SQL files
Downloaded the files from FTP (no access to cPanel yet)
Updated the following files with local URL (C:/Users/<user>/Documents/websites/ModX-Install/)
/core/config/config.inc.php
$database_user
$database_password
$database_dsn
$modx_core_path
$modx_processors_path
$modx_connectors_path
$modx_connectors_url
$modx_manager_path
$modx_manager_url
$modx_base_path
$modx_base_url
$modx_assets_path
$modx_assets_url
$http_host='localhost';
/config.core.php
/manager/config.core.php

Then I reuploaded the SQL files into new databases on localhost.
Cleared the remaining files under /core/cache/.
Commented out the .htaccess code referring to the original domain name.
Revised the base url in the <head> with the ModX Site_URL.

The only success is that the homepage and assets work when I load the local install. Everything else that I link to from there is met with an error:
Not Found
The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Paulp Reply #2, 6 years, 9 months ago

Sounds like you don't have the .htaccess file or it's not being utilised, you can turn off friendly urls in the settings in the manager section

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BobRay Reply #3, 6 years, 9 months ago

First, delete all files in the core/cache directory.

If you didn't run setup on the local install, do that.

Make sure you have this tag in all templates (with the exclamation point):

<base href="[[!++site_url]]" />

If you do have an .htaccess file, check the Rewrite Base line. On remote servers it's usually just /, because a virtual host is set up, but on many localhost installs, it needs to indicate the subdirectory the MODX install is in. Be sure it has both a leading and trailing slash.

For example, my local site is in localhost/ht_docs/addons/ so this goes in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /addons/

Also, make sure the rewrite engine is enabled in the local server, it's sometimes off by default.

If none of that works, check the paths and URLs in core/config/config.inc.php and in the three config.core.php files in the following three directories: MODX root, manger, connectors.

Ultimately, you may need to hard-code the paths and URLs, e.g.,:

    $modx_core_path= 'C:/xampp/htdocs/addons/core/';
    $modx_base_url= '/addons/';

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