On 23 May 2011, at 12:00 AM, Lloyd Lowe wrote:

Hi There,

I have inherited a Drupal 5 setup which our Organization uses on a daily basis. We have a machine hosted in the UK that supplies our website to all our visitors and sponsors. This website has been build on Drupal and I have recently upgraded it to Drupal 6.20. We are planning on revamping this website completely but cant afford to do this on the live site for obvious reasons so i have done the following :

I have installed a Debian 6.0.1a machine with Apache2, PHP5 and mysql-server. I have tarred the /var/www folder and the /etc/apache folder and downloaded them to my local machine. I have backed up my database to a .sql file using phpmyadmin and downloaded that as well. Let me tell you what i have done so far :

in the sites-availabe and sites-enables folders I have websites that look like this : www.x.org.za (path = /var/www/drupal/home/www.x.org.za)
www.y.org.za (path = /var/www/drupal/home/www.y.org.za)

I have logged into phpmyadmin and imported the database.

I have untarred the download file into /var/www creating the paths specified above.

Now, here are my questions :

1 . How do i change the names of the websites so i can browse them as http://localhost/x etc....... ?

You should not have copied over the entire apache folder. All that is necessary is to copy the /etc/apache2/sites-available/* virtualhost files. Then you would use "a2ensite www.x.org.za" and then restart apache.

For local access (on your development PC) you want to edit the localhost entry in /etc/hosts file, like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost www.x.org x www.y.org y whatever-x whatever-y

. . . But I wouldn't use actual domain names. Rather add a ServerAlias directive below the ServerName in /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.x.org.za, like this:

ServerName x.org.za

ServerAlias www.x.org.za x whatever-x

Remember, no changes take effect until you restart apache ("service apache restart" or "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart").

These are not Drupal issues, though, so feel free to email me for more help or info if you need.

2 . How do i make sure that Drupal is using the data I imported in the step above - Was I supposed to import the data into the database i pointed Drupal to or does the website have seperate database references?