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[SOLVED] Moving modx to a parent folder

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    sirus21 Reply #1, 16 years, 1 month ago
    Hi Guys,

    I have developed my Modex site in a subdirectory on my production server and its now ready to go live. Can you see any problems in just copying all the files to the parent directory and then just updating the .htacess file ? Or will I have to do a install ?
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      sirus21 Reply #2, 16 years, 1 month ago
      hi all this is now solved thanks
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        allanb Reply #3, 16 years, 1 month ago
        Glad you got it working @sirus21
        If you could detail how you did this others could maybe learn.

        Also if you could add [SOLVED] to the first post Subject.
        Helps others find a working solution.

        Regards.
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          sirus21 Reply #4, 16 years, 1 month ago
          This was my solution:

          1) I simply copied the entire contents of my sub directory to the parent directory
          2) I then updated the config file with the slightly different paths
          core/config/config.inc.php.
          As per the documentation http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Moving+Your+Site+to+a+New+Server the ammendments I made were to
           /* PATHS */
$modx_core_path= '/path/to/modx_doc_root/core/';
$modx_processors_path= '/path/to/modx_doc_root/core/model/modx/processors/';
$modx_connectors_path= '/path/to/modx_doc_root/connectors/';
$modx_manager_path= '/path/to/modx_doc_root/manager/';
$modx_base_path= '/path/to/modx_doc_root/';
$modx_assets_path= '/path/to/modx_doc_root/as
sets/';

/* HOST (used for command-line PHP stuff) */
$http_host='yoursite.com';



          3) I then uploaded the Modx set-up folder to my parent directory and ran the installer which defaulted to upgrade mode.

          I don’t know if this is the correct solution but it worked well for me. smiley