[support] Gone live problem

Tue Jun 19 20:46:44 UTC 2012

Thanks Jamie. Will be going to a drupal meetup tonite to try further.
Replaced the .htaccess.

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  I would first check to see if you can access anything without clean urls
> (ie: http://example.com/index.php?q=user). If you can, then replace your
> .htaccess with a clean one from Drupal. Drupal 7 is here:
>
>
> http://drupalcode.org/project/drupal.git/blob_plain/30d1e719aa5e9a9ad66514078ca3b0975ddadc9c:/.htaccess
>
> Drupal usually stores your images relative. You can check the file system
> settings in admin > configuration > media > file system. If you inserted
> them into nodes and that with absolute URLs then you'll either have to
> search and replace all the body and summary fields in MySQL or setup an
> .htaccess to direct back to the new folder. I would attempt the MySQL first
> though to help with server performance.
>
> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>
>
> On 6/18/2012 2:29 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
> It used to be in ~/public_html/{some folder} and now it is in the former.
> I copied it over manually. So some of the images are still in the {some
> folder} /sites/default... which was another question I had. Where to change
> that setting so that the pics are taken from
> ~/public_html/sites/default/... instead of ~/public_html/{some folder}/.
> sites/default/... ?
>
> I access it by example.com
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>>  How exactly are you set up? Is drupal installed in ~/public_html or
>> ~/public_html/{some folder}. To access it, do you go to example.com or
>> example.com/{some <http://example.com/%7Bsome> path - refers to some
>> folder}
>>
>>
>>
>> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>>
>>
>>   On 6/18/2012 2:13 PM, Anthony wrote:
>>
>> Yes I tried un-commenting and didn't help. Perplexing.
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>  Generally you don't need it. Read the documentation in settings.php to
>>> understand it.
>>>
>>> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>>>
>>>
>>>   On 6/18/2012 1:53 PM, Anthony wrote:
>>>
>>> So it should be used and set correctly?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Jamie Holly <
>>> hovercrafter at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Yup
>>>>
>>>> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   On 6/18/2012 1:27 PM, Anthony wrote:
>>>>
>>>> # $base_url = 'http://66.147.244.79/~polamor1/polamnew';  // NO
>>>> trailing slash!
>>>>
>>>> Does hash comment it out? polamnew is the old path.
>>>>
>>>>  On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jamie Holly <
>>>> hovercrafter at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  You don't by chance have $base_url set in settings.php, do you?
>>>>>
>>>>> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   On 6/18/2012 1:07 PM, Anthony wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow. When I comment it out I get this:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://66.147.244.79/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/~polamor1/accounts
>>>>> when trying to go to the accounts page.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Jamie Holly <
>>>>> hovercrafter at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  Comment it out and it should fix it. I have a client with Drupal
>>>>>> installations in sub directories as well as the root directory on BlueHost
>>>>>> and none of them need RewriteBase set.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jamie Hollyhttp://www.intoxination.net http://www.hollyit.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   On 6/18/2012 12:25 PM, Anthony wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for all the info. As usual the devil is in the detail.  Let me
>>>>>> try to explain exactly what I did.
>>>>>> 1. I didn't want to move our email from yahoo so I started asking
>>>>>> Bluehost how to go about doing that. They said and I quote*"Changing your name servers to Bluehost would interrupt your mail unless
>>>>>> you change your MX records with us to point to Yahoo before you change the
>>>>>> nameservers.I went ahead and made the MX record change on our end, you can
>>>>>> change the nameservers at anytime.*"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They also said (different dude 10 hours later).
>>>>>> *"You can change the hosting of just the website to us by pointing
>>>>>> just the a record of the domain to 66.147.244.79.  This will change
>>>>>> the domain but not the mx entries."*
>>>>>> 2. So I changed only the A-Record from yahoo to the ip address
>>>>>> mentioned. Not the NS records on network solutions.
>>>>>> 3. Then got the error mentioned. Got to home page but no further. 500
>>>>>> errors.
>>>>>> 4. Looked in the .htaccess and saw the line
>>>>>> RewriteBase /~polamor1/
>>>>>> I suspect that this may be wrong and I have to comment this line out
>>>>>> but due to my ignorance can not justify based on logic.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Tony
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Jamie Holly <
>>>>>> hovercrafter at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> First thing to do - make sure that your computer is going to the
>>>>>>> correct
>>>>>>> IP. From a command window:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> nslookup example.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If the IP is right then check your server error logs. A 500 error is
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> a DNS error. It actually comes from a webserver (see RFC 2616). As
>>>>>>> long
>>>>>>> as you are going to the right server, then the big hint will lie
>>>>>>> within
>>>>>>> the server's error logs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also make sure you have a CNAME set up:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> example.com. A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>>>>>>> www.example.com. CNAME example.com.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You need to CNAME www. to your A record or it won't work since www.
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> viewed as a subdomain. This wouldn't lead to the error (you would
>>>>>>> just
>>>>>>> get a server not found error - no HTTP error codes), but it does
>>>>>>> prevent
>>>>>>> future problems of people who want to use the www.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jamie Holly
>>>>>>> http://www.intoxination.net
>>>>>>> http://www.hollyit.net
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 6/18/2012 10:46 AM, Joel Willers wrote:
>>>>>>> > I was referring to his hosts file on his personal machine for
>>>>>>> testing. Editing your hosts file makes you not have to wait for DNS
>>>>>>> changes, as you're telling your browser what IP address it supposed to be
>>>>>>> used. I use it to see what happens if I want a site to go live but what to
>>>>>>> see the ramifications first.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Joel
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> > From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:
>>>>>>> support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Earnie Boyd
>>>>>>> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 9:40 AM
>>>>>>> > To: support at drupal.org
>>>>>>> > Subject: Re: [support] Gone live problem
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Joel Willers wrote:
>>>>>>> > >  You can always change your 'hosts' file on your machine to test
>>>>>>> how something works without actually changing the A record. Just add a line
>>>>>>> with IP address and the URL you want it to take over. Just make sure you
>>>>>>> remove it, otherwise you might not notice problems in the future.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > I don't believe the OP has access to his /etc/hosts file and the
>>>>>>> provider will not do it for him.
>>>>>>> >
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