[TYPO3] Typo3 Super Noob - Site Transfering

[Francois Suter]

Hi Chrisotpher,

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

Keep faith :-)

>> Did you really get the source or did you get the dummy, or the  
>> dummy and the source?
>  BOTH

OK. What you really need is just the source. Try getting only that as  
it will make things clearer. If you download just the source code,  
you should have something like that in your folder once unarchived:

ChangeLog
GPL.txt
LICENSE.txt
NEWS.txt
SVNreadme.txt
index.php
misc
t3lib
typo3

> This clarifies some things. (Attached are images of the folder  
> trees of what I was sent, vs. what the fresh install looks like)

As far as I understand your screenshot, you have placed the source  
code in "/delta9media.com/sexystarfish.com/html" (which I would call  
the "source folder" and the ZIP you received in "/delta9media.com/ 
sexystarfish.com/typotemp/tonda/var/www/typo3/tsi" (which I would  
call the "local folder").

Is that correct? If yes, what you need to do now is to create  
symbolic links inside "/delta9media.com/sexystarfish.com/typotemp/ 
tonda/var/www/typo3/tsi" that look like:

index.php -> typo3_src/index.php
t3lib -> typo3_src/t3lib/
typo3 -> typo3_src/typo3/
typo3_src -> /delta9media.com/sexystarfish.com/html/

Your web root should be the local folder, i.e. "/delta9media.com/ 
sexystarfish.com/typotemp/tonda/var/www/typo3/tsi".

> 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.

It's not surprisingly large. A TYPO3 database can grow to be pretty  
large if it uses the internal search engine, for example, and also by  
storing system logs for a long time.

>> - then you need to make sure that folder fileamdin, typo3conf,  
>> typo3temp
>> and uploads are writable by the web server
>>
> Have them all... CHMOD 777?

That will do for a start, but you may want to have better security  
before going live. In a typical setup the web server should be either  
the owner or the group of the whole file structure. That way you can  
set 0 rights for "other".

I hope this will get you a bit further.

François Suter

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