I thought I'd nailed this...
I built a test site at a subdomain of my main site:
http://www.mod.hellbendermedia.com/
My main domain was (at the time) hosting the full site under a different CMS, with over 700 pages or so.
I wanted to build up the test site enough and then make the switch.
I'm running Revo 2.2.2 on an Apache server, hosted by Dreamhost.
The way Dreamhost works is that you have folders for each domain and subdomain... I'm sure you know the drill. Each domain allows you to point to a folder which contains the site files. As it happens, the original site was pointing to some oddball folder (previous domain).
So, when I was ready enough, this is what I did:
1. Changed the MOD.HELLBENDERMEDIA.COM folder's name to HELLBENDERMEDIA.COM
2. Told the HELLBENDERMEDIA.COM domain settings to point all calls to the HELLBENDERMEDIA.COM folder.
Checked. Whoops, failure condition. Could not even log into the manager.
3. Checked
http://rtfm.modx.com/display/revolution20/Moving+Your+Site+to+a+New+Server
4. Changed all the settings described in "Updating your Config Files"
5. Tried to follow the directions in "Update your Database," but the phpAdmin app was being crabby. I ended up changing the PATH value somewhat manually.
So, this is where I am so far:
The site at
http://www.mod.hellbendermedia.com/ still works, although if I follow links on it, I tend to switch to the non-"MOD." version of the link, which I kinda expected.
I seem to be able to navigate handily around
http://www.hellbendermedia.com/, so that's good. Even the gallery stuff worked well right outta the gate.
If I go to
http://www.mod.hellbendermedia.com/manager/ I can continue doing the things I do to make the website hunky-dory. I can add pages, move stuff around, etc.
HOWEVER...
If I go to
http://www.hellbendermedia.com/manager/, I see the title bar at the top, the menu bar below it, and then the entire rest of the screen is blank. Just a big white rectangle.
I can still edit my site using the manager tool from
http://www.mod.hellbendermedia.com/manager/, but that's not going to work in the long term, because I want to kill the MOD. domain as soon as reasonably possible.
It SMELLS like somewhere I have a path wrong, but I cannot figure out where that might be.
I read that one option was to reinstall MODx on top of one's existing installation, but I'm a bit terrified that'll wipe out my existing site (yikes!) and that was a few weeks worth of work.
Ideas? Suggestions? Observations? Help?