Topic: Transfer To New Domain

[designer2012]

Hi

I am trying to transfer my forum to a new domain (same host), this is what I have done so far:

Set up and installed SMF on new domain, transferred the Themes and Sources folder from the current domain (these folders are the only ones that contain files I have modified).

Now whilte the forum is showing, non of the admin settings and posts/topics have transferred.

Did I miss something?

Thanks

[Orangine]

did you transfer the database?

[mrintech]

You need to transfer the database

[Orangine]

Yes, the forum consists of files and the database.  You need to transfer both for it to work.

[(F.L.A.M.E.R)]

There is an easier way to get this done if you haven't created two hosting accounts and are trying to accommodate it under one.
- Ask your hosting company to change your domain name on the account to the newer one.
- After the change, upload the repair_settings.php under your forum.
- Go to yournewdomain.com/repair_settings.php
- Update the settings as suggested.
- Voila! You are done.

If you want to keep the old domain to get redirected to the new one, simply add it as an addon and create a 301 redirection from .htaccess or you can even do a redirection setup from your domain registrar.

[designer2012]

Hi

Well I transferred all the files and the database, but somewhere along the transfer it got completely messed up (looks wise), this is the site as it should be
http://tinyurl.com/d8kxpb4

And even though I transferred the whole Epic theme folder over as, on the new domain it looks completely different and really messy, not just the homepage but acoss all the pages. As can be seen here http://tinyurl.com/d7a89yy

Anyone any idea what went wrong?

[(F.L.A.M.E.R)]

Original forum link: http://www.flamingolandrentals-forum.co.uk/
Moved to: http://www.forum.flamingolandrentals.co.uk/

Would that be correct?

I can't even view the website currently at http://www.forum.flamingolandrentals.co.uk/

Try using the repair_settings.php located here: What is repair_settings.php?


See if it resolves the layout issue first?

[designer2012]

Hi

Thanks for all your advise, I reset all the themes and that fixed the problem, so it's all ready to go, I do have one more small thing, I can open a new thread if that's better.

The popup window you get when you click on ? throughout admin I can't see the text because it's the same colour as the background, I found a link to a mod designed to remove the backgrounds from popup windows but it says it's not compatible with 2.02, so does anyone know of any other mod or another way of doing it?

[Orangine]

you can always emulate lower version to get the mod to work

[designer2012]

I actually tried that, the mod is this one http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1169 but when I try to emulate version 1.1 it says that parts of it are corrupt and it is recommended not to continue with the installation.

Are there any other mods that do with? or a manual way to remove the backgrounds from the help topic popup windows?

[Orangine]

1.1? I don't think the 1.x and 2.x branches are that compatible

are you on Firefox/Chrome maybe? if on Chrome, right click on the popup and select "Inspect Element", then you can see what part of css is responsible for the background
if you're using firefox, get Firebug and do the same

[ziycon]

Try modifying the index.css file for that theme(Themes/{theme name}/css/index.css), look for the class called 'body#help_popup' and add in the below line.

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background-image: none;

[designer2012]

Thank you, that sorted it