[support] How to move a Drupal site below the domainroot

[Joe Murray]

I have issues getting file attachments as well as images and absolute links
to work properly when moving a Drupal site. It appears that system/file is
stored with settings property per node in the database, rather than replaced
when node is being displayed. After looking through the forums I wasn't able
to find any postings about how to fix this issue. I believe this is only a
problem when using Drupal's private downloads, rather than the public
downloads setting.

This would be a very useful addition to documentation if someone could
figure out how to move a site.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 5:06 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: Re: [support] How to move a Drupal site below the domainroot
> folder?
> 
> Quoting Albert Cuesta <acuesta at gmail.com>:
> 
> > As part of a Drupal 5.x to 6.x upgrade, I have moved my Drupal site
> to
> > a folder below the HTML root level of my server, so now it's at
> > public_html/drupal6 instead of public_html as before.
> >
> 
> Is there a reason why you can't update the httpd.conf for the site so
> that the DocumentRoot is public_html/drupal6 instead of public_html?
> 
> > Now the site stopped working beyond the front page: users can login
> > but cannot logout, all links display an unthemed front page, and so
> on
> >
> > Can somebody explain the required configuration of .htaccess (for the
> > domain root and the drupal6 folder) and settings.php so the site
> works
> > again? I think I have already tried everything in the handbook and
> > readme :-(
> >
> 
> Cache tables, sessions table probably need to be truncated.  Browser
> caches may need to be emptied as well.  Did you change the RewriteBase
> in the .htaccess file?
> 
> Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
> -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
> 
> --
> [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]