[TYPO3-dam] SOLVED unable to use previously saved dam selections after moving to a new server

[georg kuehnberger]

Mathieu,
- Why dont you simply add a symlink from the old path to the new onw? 
should have solved your problems in seconds.
- Aside the above, I fully agreee to change all path information to 
realtive. however, as this is rather a new feature than a bug, I feel 
this would have to wait for the next version.

Mathieu, can you please file this as a feature request in the bugtracker?
regards georg

Mathieu Kessler wrote:
> Dear list,
> I have found the reason for my previously saved DAM selections not working
> after migrating the server despite the correct change of the absolute path
> in the tx_dam_selection table. I therefore post it in case it may be of some
> help to others:
> In the definition field of tx_dam_selection,
> a:1:{s:6:"SELECT";a:1:{s:11:"txdamFolder";a:1:{s:88:"/home/sandieg4/public_html/sandiegotypo3/fileadmin/imagenes/viernes/temporada2008/02_05/";s:1:"1";}}}
> the number after s: corresponds to the number of characters in the string
> that follows. If I only change the path in my sql dump file, it is likely
> that the number of characters in the string containing the new path has
> changed. In my case, the new path has 2 characters less. In the example
> above If I change s:88 to s:86 my selection works perfectly....
> Now a question for the developers: Would it be possible that the definition
> field of tx_dam_selection contain the relative path with respect to the
> typo3 installation install instead of the absolute path on the server? That
> would avoid the problem I met (which I agree is pretty specific...)
> Anyway, I have found DAM to be a wonderful tool, thanks to the people that
> made it possible...
> Mathieu
> 
> 
> 2008/12/9 Mathieu Kessler <mathieu.kessler at upct.es>
> 
>> Dear list,
>> I want to move a working typo3 website with Dam to a new server. I
>> made the sql dumps etc...imported the database etc... and everything
>> works fine on the new server, exept for the dam selections.:-(
>> The selections that I had defined in my old server don't work in the
>> new....
>> I have checked the database and could see that in the table
>> tx_dam_selection, the definition field contained the absolute path to
>> the directory on the old server, e.g
>>
>> a:1:{s:6:"SELECT";a:1:{s:11:"txdamFolder";a:1:{s:88:"/home/sandieg4/public_html/sandiegotypo3/fileadmin/imagenes/viernes/temporada2008/02_05/";s:1:"1";}}}
>> I therefore thought that I had found the problem since the typo3
>> installation is not in the same folder in the new server as in the old
>> one.
>> I then changed with sed all the ocurrences of
>> "/home/sandieg4/public_html" to the new base path:
>> "/var/www-data/apache2-default/" in the sql dumps files
>> and reconstructed again the database. The path that appears in the
>> definition field of table tx_dam_selection is now correct, but the
>> selections still don't work!
>> What is even more puzzling is that I can define a new selection in the
>> new server selecting the same directory and this one works!
>> If I compare the selections rule of the old selection (that does not
>> work) and the new selection (that works) they are almost the same:
>> old selection:
>>
>> a:1:{s:6:"SELECT";a:1:{s:11:"txdamFolder";a:1:{s:88:"/var/www/apache2-default/sandiegotypo3/fileadmin/imagenes/viernes/temporada2008/02_05/";s:1:"1";}}}
>> new selection
>>
>> a:1:{s:6:"SELECT";a:1:{s:11:"txdamFolder";a:1:{s:86:"/var/www/apache2-default/sandiegotypo3/fileadmin/imagenes/viernes/temporada2008/02_05/";s:1:"1";}}}
>> What am I missing?
>> It seems to me an  important issue when making backup copies of an
>> existing typo3 site with many dam selections...
>> Many thanks in advance for any hint...
>> --
>> Mathieu
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