In 2008 I hired a web designed to build a website for me. She did so using CMS Made Simple. She built it and I was able to do all of the editing and updating I wanted. I also updated a friend's site. If I ever had a problem I just contacted my designed. However, she has now moved out of the country and my friend's site is down. I have checked with my hosting account and it seems everything is good there so it is apparantly within the content itself and I am not savvy enough to even begin to figure out why. I am looking for someone to help....willing to hire someone but can't find anyone familiar with this program. CMS Made Simple 1.5.2 "Caguas"
The website that is not live is http://www.martinslastdollarranch.com. If you try to pull it up you will see a string of errors that make no sense to me.
Please help!!!!!
Need Help getting site live
Re: Need Help getting site live
It looks like they may have updated the PHP, shouldn't be too hard to fix, if you have server access...
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Yes, I have access. No idea what do do with it though 
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- Contact the hosting company or log into the hosting admin panel and see if you can switch back to the old version of PHP (PHP4)
- If you cannot do this via an admin utility, then assuming the hosting provider still supports PHP4, add the following line to the top of your .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php4 .php
The syntax may be different for your host - so check in the Help or FAQ sections of your hosting provider
- If you hosting provider does not support the old PHP, your only option is to download a copy of the site (files and DB) to a local machine that has the old PHP version running, perform an upgrade to the latest version of CMSMS (or at least a recent version like 1.9.3), then push your changes back to your production site.
Note - I'm not sure your problem is necessarily PHP version related since the Admin page came up successfully (http://martinslastdollarranch.com/admin/login.php), so log into the admin panel, clear the site cache and see if there are other problems being reported. Your host could have also moved servers which may have broken the locations configured in your config.php.
Hope that helps.
S
- If you cannot do this via an admin utility, then assuming the hosting provider still supports PHP4, add the following line to the top of your .htaccess file:
AddType x-mapp-php4 .php
The syntax may be different for your host - so check in the Help or FAQ sections of your hosting provider
- If you hosting provider does not support the old PHP, your only option is to download a copy of the site (files and DB) to a local machine that has the old PHP version running, perform an upgrade to the latest version of CMSMS (or at least a recent version like 1.9.3), then push your changes back to your production site.
Note - I'm not sure your problem is necessarily PHP version related since the Admin page came up successfully (http://martinslastdollarranch.com/admin/login.php), so log into the admin panel, clear the site cache and see if there are other problems being reported. Your host could have also moved servers which may have broken the locations configured in your config.php.
Hope that helps.
S
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As I mentioned before the web designer created 2 sites....mine (wilhelmperformancehorses.com) and my friends (martinslastdollarranch.com). Both were hosted under her account at godaddy.com. When she moved I purchased my own hosting account from Godaddy.com so that I could just "simply" transfer the sites to my account. 
However, I procrastinated and did not do this. Partly lack of time and definitely a lack of knowledge so I was scared.
A few months ago the Martins site went down. Again at that time they were both on the same hosting account. Now I was forced to do something to try and get the site up so with the help of a godaddy tech we transferred the Martins files to my hosting account. After we tranferred them I could once again access the administrators console which I wasn't able to do at first so I thought everything was good but it still wouldn't go live. Godaddy says its configured and pointed in the right direction and that it has to do with my content which they can't help with. Maybe I didn't get a file transferred?
I did look and see that on my hosting account it runs php5.2 but not sure that is the problem as the site was down when it was still on her account which is run by php4x. My (Wilhelmperformancehorses) site is still hosted under her account. I also noted that the two sites were created with a different version of cms....
Wilhelm site uses CMS Made Simple 1.3.1 "Havana"
Martin site uses CMS Made Simple 1.5.2 "Caguas"
I don't know if this helps or not?
However, I procrastinated and did not do this. Partly lack of time and definitely a lack of knowledge so I was scared. A few months ago the Martins site went down. Again at that time they were both on the same hosting account. Now I was forced to do something to try and get the site up so with the help of a godaddy tech we transferred the Martins files to my hosting account. After we tranferred them I could once again access the administrators console which I wasn't able to do at first so I thought everything was good but it still wouldn't go live. Godaddy says its configured and pointed in the right direction and that it has to do with my content which they can't help with. Maybe I didn't get a file transferred?
I did look and see that on my hosting account it runs php5.2 but not sure that is the problem as the site was down when it was still on her account which is run by php4x. My (Wilhelmperformancehorses) site is still hosted under her account. I also noted that the two sites were created with a different version of cms....
Wilhelm site uses CMS Made Simple 1.3.1 "Havana"
Martin site uses CMS Made Simple 1.5.2 "Caguas"
I don't know if this helps or not?
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Look at the source of the page:
Where is:
I think that the template has no association with a stylesheet.
Succes!
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<__html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Martin's Last Dollar Ranch</title>
<!-- base href="http://martinslastdollarranch.com/" -->
<meta name="Generator" content="CMS Made Simple - Copyright (C) 2004-6 Ted Kulp. All rights reserved.">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>Code: Select all
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="your-style.css" />Succes!
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roon: I found the codes you are talking about on my CMS administrator panel.....I have NEVER messed with any type of codes.....all I have done is make changes to content so I'm not sure what you are saying about the missing code? Do I need to add it? Where?
Janvl: I am not able to reply to a PM. Maybe because I haven't participated in the forum long enough????
If there is someone familiar with this CMS Made Simple who could actually look at my site and fix it I would be very grateful? I would assume there would be a fee and that would be fine.....I just want it fixed
You can find my contact information on my website www.wilhelmperformancehorses.com
Janvl: I am not able to reply to a PM. Maybe because I haven't participated in the forum long enough????
If there is someone familiar with this CMS Made Simple who could actually look at my site and fix it I would be very grateful? I would assume there would be a fee and that would be fine.....I just want it fixed
You can find my contact information on my website www.wilhelmperformancehorses.comRe: Need Help getting site live
You may want to put something in the Help Wanted board...
I would be happy to try and help...
I would be happy to try and help...
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@reiner1 - I sent you an email earlier. Feel free to forward me an Admin account and I can look around and see what can be done.
- Sanjay
- Sanjay
