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Hello all

I wonder if you can advise on moving around of some EE and WP files on my server. I want to make my EE site an archive, and the WP installation the main website.

I currently have two CMSs installed. The first is an Expression Engine installation in the root directory:
- http://www.teentoday.co.uk/
- Admin files in a folder called /[namehere]/

The second is a wordpress installation at:
- http://www.teentoday.co.uk/news
- With all files within the /news/ folder

I moved my EE files:
index.php
.htaccess
license.txt
path.php

to the archive folder http://www.teentoday.co.uk/teentoday/

I moved my WP index.php and .htaccess to the root directory and have successfully installed it there after making a few tweaks in the control panel.

Now however when I go to http://www.teentoday.co.uk/teentoday/ to see the archived EE site I get:

“The system path does not appear to be set correctly. Please open your path.php file and correct the path.”

Can anyone advice of the file changes I need to make to the paths to make this work.

Thanks

ollym,

Open up your http://www.teentoday.co.uk/teentoday/path.php and change

$system_path = "./system/";

to

$system_path = "../system/";

So it is pointing to your system folder outside of the teentoday folder.

Does that help?

Hi John - thank you for this. This now ‘works’. The only issue I now have is all my article URLs have updated. For example:

http://www.teentoday.co.uk/article/golden-circle-tickets-t4-stars-of-2010/

is now:

http://www.teentoday.co.uk/teentoday/article/golden-circle-tickets-t4-stars-of-2010/

Which then doesn’t work? Any ideas… is this to do with URLs being rewritten? Thanks again.

PS you can see the site at http://www.teentoday.co.uk/teentoday/

How are you links created? Can you show us a bit of relevant code?

Hi

There’s a rewrite on the links as follows (.htaccess):

AcceptPathInfo On
RewriteEngine On
#Forum
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^forums/(.*)$ /index.php/forums/$1 [L]
#Members
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^member/(.*)$ /index.php/member/$1 [L]
#Handle comment redirection
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !^POST
RewriteRule ^teentoday/?(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]
#Handle removal of index.php and template group from EE URLs
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/teentoday/$1 [L]

#Specific URL redirects
redirect 301 /calendar/ <a href="http://www.teentoday.co.uk/page/teen-events/">http://www.teentoday.co.uk/page/teen-events/</a>
redirect 301 /article/redirect <a href="http://www.teentoday.co.uk/news/?=hp">http://www.teentoday.co.uk/news/?=hp</a>
redirect 301 /calendar <a href="http://www.teentoday.co.uk/page/teen-events/">http://www.teentoday.co.uk/page/teen-events/</a>

I didn’t create this and it is meaningless to me, but believe it’s what’s creating the URL structure.

Thanks again

Oh and to clarify, I believe I have a custom field for the creation of the article URL (golden-circle-xxxxx) for SEO.

ollym,

Because you moved your site into the folder ‘teentoday’ it is now part of your URL structure.

http://www.teentoday.co.uk/teentoday/article/golden-circle-tickets-t4-stars-of-2010/

In your htaccess there is a method for the removal of index.php from the URL which unfortunately we do not support.

You can see how the correctly formatted URL works
http://www.teentoday.co.uk/teentoday/index.php/article/golden-circle-tickets-t4-stars-of-2010/

My advice is to update the rule which handles the removal of index.php and template group from EE URLs to just index.php and not include the teentoday segment.

Then you can apply a rule to remove the teentoday segment when somebody accesses it

RewriteRule ^teentoday/(.+)$ <a href="http://www.teentoday.co.uk/$1">http://www.teentoday.co.uk/$1</a> [R=301,L]

None of this is considered official support though so moving this thread to the CodeShare Corner for you

Hi John

Thanks for your advice on this.

I saw this:

My advice is to update the rule which handles the removal of index.php and template group from EE URLs to just index.php and not include the teentoday segment.

Then you can apply a rule to remove the teentoday segment when somebody accesses it
RewriteRule ^teentoday/(.+)$ http://www.teentoday.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Can you clarify the exact changes I need to make as I have not worked with URL rewrites before?
If you can’t help with this, should I perhaps post for paid development?

Thanks
Olly