migrate to new hosting and domain

[thibault]

HI everybody,

I'm totally new using this CMS, my friend is asking me basicaly to duplicate his website done via TYPOlight, to a new domain and hosting, ( He just keep the same design, changing just the content).

I'm use to do this with wordpress, but not with TYPOlight, is there anybody to help me in that step ? I can not find the path / process to do . ..

Thank you so much for your help

[xchs]

Hi,

what exactly is the problem? Have you already read the section "Moving an installation" from the Contao manual?

[thibault]

Hi,

The website has been done by TYPOlight webCMS, the old version of Contao apparently . . . I follow the step from your link, it does kidn of works, but only the homepage . . . if i try to go to another page, it says it can not find index.php . . .

thank you for your help

[xchs]

Seems like you need to activate the server configuration file by renaming the ".htaccess.default" (or "._htaccess") to ".htaccess" in the Contao main directory.

Depending on your vhost configuration you might also need to check whether the RewriteBase is set correctly:

  ##
  # Change the RewriteBase if your Contao installation is in a subdirectoy and
  # the rewrite rules are not working properly. Usage examples:
  #
  #   RewriteBase /contao-3.0.0
  #   RewriteBase /path/to/contao
  #
  # Depending on your server, you might have to remove the line entirely.
  ##
  RewriteBase /

[thibault]

Hi,

Thank you for those informations,

should i put the rewritebase on the htacess ?

my htacess is like this:

#Fix Rewrite
Options -Multiviews


<Files ~ "^.(htaccess|htpasswd)$">
deny from all
</Files>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^admin/.*$ - [PT]
RewriteRule ^css/.*$ - [PT]
RewriteRule ^js/.*$ - [PT]
RewriteRule ^files/.*$ - [PT]
Options -Indexes
<FilesMatch ".(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=3600"
</FilesMatch>


RewriteRule ^(\w+)/rss?$ rss.php?lang=$1


RewriteRule ^(\w+)/product/(\w+)/(\w+)/(\w+)?$ index.php?type=product&category=$2&subcategory=$3&product=$4&lang=$1
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/product/(\w+)/(\w+)?$ index.php?type=product&category=$2&subcategory=$3&lang=$1
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/product/(\w+)?$ index.php?type=product&category=$2&lang=$1
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/project/(\w+)/(\w+)?$ index.php?toptype=project&type=$2&lang=$1&ext=$3
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/project/(\w+)?$ index.php?toptype=project&type=$2&lang=$1
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/(\w+)/page-(\w+)?$ index.php?type=$2&page=$3&lang=$1
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/(\w+)/(\w+)?$ index.php?toptype=$2&type=$3&lang=$1
RewriteRule ^(\w+)/(\w+)?$ index.php?type=$2&lang=$1


#ErrorDocument 400 ./error/400.html
#ErrorDocument 404 ./error/404.html
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php      
order deny,allow

I'm not really in back-end, I really appreciate your help,

thank you

[xchs]

Your RewriteBase is set to "RewriteBase /" which is just fine as long as you map your domain directly to the Contao root directory.

However, you'd also have to add the following rewrite URL so that the Apache web server rewrites all requests with an ".html" URL suffix to the "index.php" script:

  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule .*\.html$ index.php [L]

BTW: Do you have an entry

$GLOBALS['TL_CONFIG']['rewriteURL'] = true; 

in your local configuration file "system/config/localconfig.php". If this is set to true, Contao will rewrite the front end URLs and omit the "index.php" URL fragment.

[thibault]

Hi,

It's just super weird, It seems they did 2 different backoffice, I can not understand why and how to deal with that,

IN the other installation, the ht.acess is:

# Enable mod_rewrite
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Block any URI protocol in the query string
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (ftp|https?):|/etc/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Block any URI protocol in the request
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (ftp|https?):|/etc/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

# Rewrite TYPOlight URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .*\.html$ index.php [L]

I try to add

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .*\.html$ index.php [L]

and

RewriteBase /subfolderinstallation
# RewriteBase /mymainfolder/subfolerinstall/

and doesnt fi anything . . .

Is there a way to have a chat for your hand please ??

[xchs]

I can take a look at it if you want. Contact me via PM.

[thibault]

thank you I've send you a pm