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Hi Guy's

I'm a total noob with CMS

I need some help moving a CMS website to a new web server, I have a copy of the old CMS website that I downloaded to my pen drive as well as the database. I'm trying to get it working locally with xamp before moving it to the new web server. I have no problem getting CMS made simple to install in xamp and connecting it to the database, then I follow the info to move a CMS website here http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/moving after that the website displays a blank page? I look at the files from the old site and there are some extras e.g stylesheet.php and stylesheet.css

please let me know what info your require to help me out!

P.S If you can help me get this going today there is $50 in it for you to get a case of beer and a pizza LOL!!!:)

In your message you say "I have no problem getting CMS made simple to install in xamp". Does this mean that you did a new installation of of CMS made simple including a database connection and then imported your website and database?

I use xampp on my laptop to create a simulation of several active websites as a demonstration to show to potential clients. The procedure I used was as follows:
1. create a folder for each website in xampp/htdocs then copy the whole site as previously ftp'd from the server into the relevant folder.
2. Using PhpMyAdmin in xampp, create an empty database with the same name as the original database and create a user with the relevant permissions with exacly the same username and password as the original database. Then import the database into the empty database.
3. Follow steps 3 & 4 in http://docs.cmsmadesimple.org/moving

I hope this helps!

Thanks for the help I managed to get it working in xampp and it worked well so I uploaded it to the web server. There is only one problem I need help sorting out after setting the website backup. See the "Rooms & Rates" and "Things to do" links on right side of the page courtyardmotorinn.com.au, they are not working the "Rooms & Rates" link used to go to this page courtyardmotorinn.com.au/index.php?page=rooms-and-rates and the "Things to do" link used to go to this page http://www.courtyardmotorinn.com.au/ind ... shepparton

I noticed the links on the top of the page for "Rooms & Rates" and "Things to do" go the the right address
courtyardmotorinn.com.au/index.php?page=rooms-and-rates
courtyardmotorinn.com.au/index.php?page=about-shepparton


the links on right side of the page for "Rooms & Rates" and "Things to do" go the the wrong address

courtyardmotorinn.com.au/rooms-and-rates
courtyardmotorinn.com.au/#

I'm trying to workout what I need to edit? I guess it's the template? would someone be kind enough to direct me on how to do this, I'm new to CMS.

Try looking in the Layout stylesheet associated with the template.
You need to edit the links in div id="rooms" and div id="todo"

The site doesn't use pretty URLs but the link does, so you need to set up pretty URLs or/and change the links...