[TYPO3] Typo3 Super Noob - Site Transfering

[Christopher]

Thanks for your reply....its helping...slowly.  Below here is more
clarification for you.



On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Francois Suter <fsuter at cobweb.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's not quite what you have done or not, but let's try to guess
>
>  > I was able to get the new version of
>  > Typo3 installed on my new server.
>
> You downloaded the source code from typo3.org. Is that correct? YES Did
> you
> really get the source or did you get the dummy, or the dummy and the
> source?  BOTH
>
> > I was sent a zip file of the files on the old server.
>
> I suppose what you got were the local files, which would explain why...
>
> > The files structure is totally different.
>
> TYPO3 is designed to be deployed with a "local" part which stands in the
> web root with symbolic links to the source code (which is generally
> placed outside the web root).  This clarifies some things. (Attached are
> images of the folder trees of what I was sent, vs. what the fresh install
> looks like)
>
> So normally the steps you should have to take are:
>
> - create a new database and load the SQL dump you received into it (if
> it later all looks like garbage it may be that encoding of dump and
> database don't match => redo from start) I did get two SQL files: one was
> 648 mb, which I thought was large for one file, but I have no way of
> knowing.  One other came in as well.  8mb.  Total Site was 785 mb.
>
> - unzip what you received and place it in the web root of your new server I tried that.  My default on my server is the HTML file.  One of the folders
> in the ZIP archive was WWW...so I used it contents.  However, I did not see
> any index.php file in the WWW folder...and when I searched the contents on
> the archived site, found many, but none were high enough to be the master
> for the site....????  Hope that makes sense.
>
> - download the source code of TYPO3 and place it somewhere outside the
> web root  I tried pulling out my install and replacing it with the
> contents of the Archive WWW folder.  No luck.
>
> - in the stuff you unzip, you should have broken symbolic links.
> Basically you should have something like:
>
> index.php -> typo3_src/index.php  I don't see this folder  see attached
> images
> t3lib -> typo3_src/t3lib/
> typo3 -> typo3_src/typo3/
> typo3_src -> /path/to/typo3/src/
>
> or something similar. That's if you're running under Unix. I am If running
> Windows, you can't have symbolic links, so you have to copy the stuff
> from the source code to your local directory  When I initally unzipped the
> archive on my machine, I got errors about this symbolic link issue.  I
> understand that its a windows issue.  (typo3 into typo3, t3lib
> into t3lib, and index.php to the web root).  As mentied, I found maybe 13
> index.php's, none anywhere near the upper root heirarchy of the unzipped
> content.  I can send you a screen shot of their locations if needed.
>
> - in typo3conf folder, you should have a file called localconf.php.
> That's where you need to change the database name, username and password. This I did...in Dreamweaver, the only thing I can view PHP files in
> logically.  I know there are other ways, which I am about to learn...
>
> - then you need to make sure that folder fileamdin, typo3conf, typo3temp
> and uploads are writable by the web server Have them all... CHMOD 777?
>
> You should normally have something running then, although you may have
> more configuration to do.  kIndof waiting for you to look at the images
> and structures before I continue...
>
> HTH for a start.



I really appreciate you provding any assitance to me on this...


Christopher

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Francois Suter <fsuter at cobweb.ch> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It's not quite what you have done or not, but let's try to guess
>
>  > I was able to get the new version of
>  > Typo3 installed on my new server.
>
> You downloaded the source code from typo3.org. Is that correct? Did you
> really get the source or did you get the dummy, or the dummy and the
> source?
>
> > I was sent a zip file of the files on the old server.
>
> I suppose what you got were the local files, which would explain why...
>
> > The files structure is totally different.
>
> TYPO3 is designed to be deployed with a "local" part which stands in the
> web root with symbolic links to the source code (which is generally
> placed outside the web root).
>
> So normally the steps you should have to take are:
>
> - create a new database and load the SQL dump you received into it (if
> it later all looks like garbage it may be that encoding of dump and
> database don't match => redo from start)
>
> - unzip what you received and place it in the web root of your new server
>
> - download the source code of TYPO3 and place it somewhere outside the
> web root
>
> - in the stuff you unzip, you should have broken symbolic links.
> Basically you should have something like:
>
> index.php -> typo3_src/index.php
> t3lib -> typo3_src/t3lib/
> typo3 -> typo3_src/typo3/
> typo3_src -> /path/to/typo3/src/
>
> or something similar. That's if you're running under Unix. If running
> Windows, you can't have symbolic links, so you have to copy the stuff
> from the source code to your local directory (typo3 into typo3, t3lib
> into t3lib, and index.php to the web root).
>
> - in typo3conf folder, you should have a file called localconf.php.
> That's where you need to change the database name, username and password.
>
> - then you need to make sure that folder fileamdin, typo3conf, typo3temp
> and uploads are writable by the web server
>
> You should normally have something running then, although you may have
> more configuration to do.
>
> HTH for a start.
>
> --
>
> Francois Suter
> Cobweb Development Sarl - http://www.cobweb.ch
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