Manual installation not completely working

Tuesday 04 December 2007 5:41:55 pm

The situation I've got is not ideal
- I'm on shared Linux servers not designed specifically for Exponential.
- I've been given a .zip of the file and the database dump from a previous server, and need to migrate it ASAP off the old servers
- the version of Exponential is 3.8.6
- Apache version 2.0.59 (can't help that)
- PHP 4.4.7
- Mysql 5.0.45
- I'm new to Exponential, so bear with me

What I've done so far is basically follow the manual installation guide:
1) unzipped the zip file to the root where it should be
2) edited the files /settings/* where the new database settings are to be entered (I checked using <i>grep -ilr "DBusername" *</i> to make sure I'd not missed some files).
3) Created the above database and set it to UFT8 default character set
4) Imported the database from the database dump
5) created php.ini and set memory_limit =64M
6) created .htaccess and entered "AcceptPathInfo On"

Problems:
Only the home page shows up, and links that I know work from the previous site only show the home page (which is currently an image)
I can't bring up the admin view either. It seems like I can't get Exponential in this installation to accept queries from the url. However, I've installed Exponential 3.10 via the install wizard, and this seems to have worked fine. I don't want to go through the all the configuration files and manually compare each ones to see if I can find out what's the problem

Any suggestions on what to do?
Are there some settings I'd need to edit in the MySQL database to show up the new location of the files?

Wednesday 05 December 2007 1:59:02 am

Hello,

Thanks for the reply. I should have mentioned that I did not put my settings in override.php, and checked the old configuration. It had settings in settings/siteaccess/*/site.ini.append.php

I have also cleared the cache as per the install guide for the 3.8.* series.

Additionally, I configured apache using the information at http://ez.no/developer/articles/the_ez_publish_web_server_environment/configuring_apache_and_php

What finally worked was copying the all except /settings/ to the previously clean Exponential 3.10 folder (I know, not recommended, but I was trying something as a last ditch attempt). I then copied over from the settings (note this had been modded to use the correct DB already) folder:
- site.ini*
- siteaccess/*
- override/*
- template.ini
- admininterface.ini
- codetemplate.ini
- content.ini
- design.ini

It now works. is any path information stored in the other files? I don't have time to check that out at the moment, but I was wondering if anyone knew off-hand
Cheers for your help. I may still need more.