Web site in new folder

cats_five · 30 Mar 2015 at 15:05

I've downloaded the website we plan to replace with a Wordpress one into a folder 'old' under /var/www, but there are lots of ways it's broken because it's no longer in /var/www.

This is on Debian using Apache2 & PHP5. The .conf files are splattered all over the place.

Is there an easy way to fix this?

MoDe · 30 Mar 2015 at 15:51

Not 100% sure on this, but it could potentially be the links?

If the links are set to

<a href="/foldername/whatever.html">Link</a>

Then they will point to the root directory first. So a / takes you back to the very heart. ../ Takes you back one folder.

Just a potential troubleshoot.

cats_five · 30 Mar 2015 at 18:18

Hopeing to find a solution that doesn't involve editing every damn file as this is the old site, don't want to spend much time on it...

Yes, you are right, the links are prefixed with '/'. Will have a think about it - using vi might make possible to alter, of course it might all fall apart bigstyle!

inogen · 30 Mar 2015 at 18:20

cats_five said:
Hopeing to find a solution that doesn't involve editing every damn file as this is the old site, don't want to spend much time on it...

put it on a subdomain.

roger that · 30 Mar 2015 at 18:44

You could try inserting a 'base' element in the head of every page with the new path.

Etheco · 30 Mar 2015 at 22:47

Yeh a sub domain is the easiest option like Inogen mentioned, There isn't much more you can do without replacing links sadly, you can find programs to do a mass find replace, but this is hugely error prone obviously.

cats_five · 31 Mar 2015 at 10:50

I can do a mass find & replace with vi but as you say it's error-prone., and there are nearly 100 page / PHP pages to deal with. A little editing has improved it possibly to the degree needed, but I'll look into a sub-domain, thanks for the suggestion. It's a pain but the website was written several years back so maybe that's part of the problem.

inogen · 31 Mar 2015 at 23:08

cats_five said:
I can do a mass find & replace with vi but as you say it's error-prone., and there are nearly 100 page / PHP pages to deal with. A little editing has improved it possibly to the degree needed, but I'll look into a sub-domain, thanks for the suggestion. It's a pain but the website was written several years back so maybe that's part of the problem.

Send me a PM via trust and I can sort you out a subdomain and upload it there. At least you'd see if it works or not.

cats_five · 1 Apr 2015 at 20:49

I did it myself!

Thanks for the offer though. Also had to tweak Apache to run php embedded in htm files.