New Site: Moving Directory After Fully Functional

Before I even install modX, I want to ensure that I can move it from a subdirectory to the root directory once I have it fully functional and all the bugs are worked out. The server is the same and the database will be as well. I have seen this question asked, but not too many confident answers... Shouldn’t it be just a matter of moving the folders/files to the root directory?

Simply moving, and if you’re using friendly urls changing the base path.

Just make sure you use relative urls in your content, templates etc.

As a side note: this forum is intended for reviewing sites and introductions and not for general or specific questions... try the general forum or the more specific forums next time

Sorry about the wrong forum - please move this to the appropriate section.

To be clear(er) on my part, an relative URL would be:

"../images/example.gif"

instead of:

"http://www.filmjackets.com/modx/images/example.gif"

Quote from: Rick5150 at Jul 02, 2010, 06:35 AM

To be clear(er) on my part, an relative URL would be:
"../images/example.gif"
instead of:
"http://www.filmjackets.com/modx/images/example.gif"

Yes

You can (and, in my opinion should) place [tt]<base href="[(site_url)]"></base>[/tt] in your template head, and call anything from that path on. So if your site url (as set in MODx configuration) is filmjackets.com/modx, you only need to call /images/example.gif.


Your name/nick looks familiar to me.. you’re not by any chance in SD are you? (If not, just ignore this )

If by SD, you mean New Hampshire, then yes.

My goal is to get the site running in the modX folder, then after I am happy with it, move everything to the root folder. I expect that if I make the move, I would have to edit any templates that had the filmjackets.com/modx reference...

You should not hardcode the file path anywhere. CSS and JS can be called relative to the site and use [(site_url)] where you need absolute paths.

Once done you should then update the setting in site config and when you move your site you will need to clear the cache to remove the old url paths. You will also likly need to change the site root in the .htaccess file as well.