Just moved my site from one server to another and need some help

[tmeyer45458]

I just moved my site and there is some critical info not being processed. This is going to be tough to explain so bear w/me please.  Lets start with what I've done.  I made "all" of the necessary changes to the config.php file.  I changed the DB info, root url, root path etc. 

The site actually shows...there seems to be no problems with the database.  That said, the nav bar is gone.  All of the style sheets are missing from the code (view source).  And alot of content is misssing.  Basically all i see are a few pics and h1 and h2 headings.  All else is absent.

I still don't know what version of cmsms I'm using but its recent...downloaded about a month ago.  I'm hosted through site5...I believe MySql is 4.3 and I'm not sure the version of apache matters.

It is important to note that when changing the root url in the config, I used the IP since my domain has yet to propagate. 

I think that's about it...I could really use some guidence here.  If you need more info...I'd be happy to provide it.

Thanks!

[heatherfeuer]

My first thought is did you export the data from the old database?  If so, did you import into the new database?  Did you use the same prefix, etc?  The images would be okay because they are in a folder outside the database.  It really sounds to me like not all of your templates/stylesheets got imported correctly.

[Pierre M.]

Yes, and the "domain not already propagated" isn't a sane way for deployment.
My advice is to wait 48h for domain propagation completion and recopy from the beginning.
Pierre M.

[tmeyer45458]

Thanks for the replys.  I did export the DB from the the "development" location and import to the new location.  To be honest, exporting/importing DBs, deploying sites, etc...this is a first. 

Anyway, I suspected that maybe it was a database issue but if that's the case then I'm at a lose.  I made sure that the db name, username, and password were updated in the config.php file.

When exporting the database from its "development" location, I simply clicked export in phpadmin, used the default settings and then exported the database to my desktop.

When importing, I first created the database and user...granting a privileges to the user. Then imported the database...all tables appeared and info seemed to be OK.

I'm not really sure how to fix this and help would be appreciated!

[heatherfeuer]

Well Pierre has a point.  Sometimes weird things happen until a site is propagated completely.  However, you might go into phpmyadmin and look at the tables holding the template info and make sure the information is really there.  Or, if you can log into the admin area, check the templates from there to make sure they are there and are complete and correct.

Otherwise, I am at a loss.  You might have to manually copy the templates from the development site and paste into the deployed site through the admin area.

[tmeyer45458]

Hmmm...admin area is not working either.  I'll have to look into this a little further.  Thanks for the help though

[heatherfeuer]

That definitely sounds like an install problem!  You might want to reinstall then try re-importing the data.

[tmeyer45458]

I'm w/you on that!  I'm in the process of doing that right now.  When exporting/importing I followed this tutorial:

http://fragments.turtlemeat.com/image2- ... yadmin.php

Seemed pretty straight forward.  Anyway, I'm going to attempt to reinstall and then go from there

[tmeyer45458]

OK...the new install provided partial success.  The site is up; however, I am using the cataloger module and all of my images are broken.  That presents a huge problem as the 'catalog' is the core of the  site.  I will open another thread and hopefully someone can tell me a quick way to fix this without uploading all of the pics again

[heatherfeuer]

That sounds like a path problem.  What is the difference in the paths from the development site and the remote site?