[SOLVED] Errors After Move to New Server

[BAlGaInTl]

I installed a new copy in a separate directory, and everything worked just fine.

I'm going to try to do the re-install without updating the database to see how that goes.

[BAlGaInTl]

Copied the installation directory over to my main install.

Pointed my browser to domain.com/install and followed Dr CSS's advice.

The errors are still there.

[Rolf]

BAlGaInTl

Can you PM me a temporarily admin login, so I can it see myself?

Regards, Rolf

[BAlGaInTl]

PM Sent

[Rolf]

One quick look says more than a lot of posts here. 
>> You have got a fileowner problem on your server.

Good read: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg44063

Installing and deïnstalling modules is difficult, files can't be created or deleted because the cms isn't the fileowner.
Uploading images and creating thumbs isn't possible. Etc. 
Take a look in the cms FileManager, all the folders got 'locks'.
This might also be the course of the captcha problems. The module is deinstalled, but there are probably some files left... 

Some things you can do:

a. Don't use FTP anymore, just the FileManager from the host.

b. Reset permissions of all files with the hosts FileManager

c. Change the permissions of the folders and files: /modules, /uploads and /tmp to 777 (CHMOD 777)

d. Set 'File Creation Mask (umask)' to 000. Site Admin >> Global Settings >> Advanced Setup

e. ... I think this was it 

But you aren't blessed with this host...   :-\

Grtz. Rolf

[BAlGaInTl]

One quick look says more than a lot of posts here.  :D
>> You have got a fileowner problem on your server.

Good read: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg44063

Installing and deïnstalling modules is difficult, files can't be created or deleted because the cms isn't the fileowner.
Uploading images and creating thumbs isn't possible. Etc.  :(
Take a look in the cms FileManager, all the folders got 'locks'.
This might also be the course of the captcha problems. The module is deinstalled, but there are probably some files left...  :-\

Some things you can do:

a. Don't use FTP anymore, just the FileManager from the host.

b. Reset permissions of all files with the hosts FileManager

c. Change the permissions of the folders and files: /modules, /uploads and /tmp to 777 (CHMOD 777)

d. Set 'File Creation Mask (umask)' to 000. Site Admin >> Global Settings >> Advanced Setup

e. ... I think this was it  ;)

But you aren't blessed with this host...  

Grtz. Rolf

I'm a bit confused now, but I will comment... I think I'm missing something.

a. I didn't use FTP.  I used the backup manager of DirectAdmin.  It creates a backup tar.gz which I then used that to restore everything.  It includes databases, email, files, as well as permissions and owners.  I transferred the backup to the new server, and then restored it there using the same utility.

b.  I did that.  All of my permissions seem to be fine to me at first glance.  I even used SSH to do a

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chown -R user:user public_html 

to make sure that the user was the owner of all of the files in the public html folder.

c.  That is done as well.  Everything that needs to be 777 is.  Or at least as far as I can tell.  All of the folders you listed are 777 with the user as the owner.

What do you mean by I'm blessed with the host?  I'm the host.  LOL

It is a VPS, so I have full root access and I can change anything that needs to be changed.  I try to do what I can from the command line via SSH, but I'm still a novice in that respect.  The problem is that I don't know what the issue is exactly.  Nothing has been transfered by FTP in the traditional sense.  I only transfer via tar.gz files and expand them on the server.  I either push them from one server to the other via FTP, or I retrieve them via wget.

There is some mundane setting, or something that I'm missing from my new environment that is causing the issue.  The rest of my sites, scripts, etc, all transferred fine.  CMSMS is the only hangup right now.

[BAlGaInTl]

Ok...

I'm getting closer...

the site is almost back.  But for some reason, all my images that were inserted with CMSMS are not recognized.  Even though they are still there.  I'm able to get most of them back by simply editing the page and going to image properties and then reselecting the image.

I'm still missing a couple of images from my theme including the header image and an image that is on the side....

Almost there.

[replytomk3]

Check config.php image path setting. Check "view page formatting" in tinymce before you select the image and see what the source html patch to image is. that might be the problem. finally, check your template links to those images. it could have been hard coded into the template.

[BAlGaInTl]

Check config.php image path setting. Check "view page formatting" in tinymce before you select the image and see what the source html patch to image is. that might be the problem. finally, check your template links to those images. it could have been hard coded into the template.

Yup.

The ones that I'm missing are hard coded in to the template.  I can fix that easy enough, I just need to find the proper images and upload them.

I'm going to mark this one as [SOLVED]

I want to take a moment to thank the community here.  You have all been great!  I wouldn't have been able to figure it out without you.

It was in fact an ownership problem.

It seems that the DirectAdmin restore did not restore the user "apache" correctly.  So modules needed to be owned by that user and group in order to function properly.  I figured it out by logging on to my old server IP and going through the files one at a time until I determined the error.

Thank you all again for your help.