[TYPO3-english] Preparing a staging site from a live environment

[Joshua Nichols]

After copying an entire site to a new server to build a staging environment (entire web root and database dump), I'm having some trouble getting the front end to load pages correctly.  There are a few issues which may or may not be related:

1. loading the home page, e.g. staging.domain.com/ send a 301 redirect to www.domain.com/home.html

note that that the domain part changes.  I've changed config.baseURL with no luck.  The site uses the CoolURI extension--could that be causing the redirect?

2. if I hack my hosts file to work around the domain name issue, this "home.html" page gives a 404 anywhere.  So something is working to redirect me, but not to actually load content with a friendly URL.

3. Simply trying to load a page without any of that, for example: staging.domain.com/index.php?id=356  throws a TemplVoila error:

"TemplaVoila ERROR:

Couldn't find Template Object with UID "XX".
Please make sure a Template Object is accessible."


If anyone can point me in the right direction on any of these issues, I'd really appreciate it.