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Moving a very old EE 1 site!

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User tOKgLsjz's avatar User tOKgLsjz

uh, try System Preferences?

       
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also it turns out that because @tomjaeger & co are very smart and lovely people, EE docs are available online going all the way back to v1: <https://docs.expressionengine.com/v1>

       
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That took me here.

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And yes, @Preston Feiler, per the docs it’s going to be in System Preferences -> General Config

       
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<https://docs.expressionengine.com/v1/cp/admin/system_preferences/general_configuration.html>

       
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User tOKgLsjz's avatar User tOKgLsjz

So click General Configuration

       
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and you should see a way to set your themes path

       
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User tOKgLsjz's avatar User tOKgLsjz

er, themes URL

       
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User tOKgLsjz's avatar User tOKgLsjz

actually hang on, the URL shouldn’t have changed, right? this is a path issue

       
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let me continue looking at the docs

       
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okay, so what you may need to do is look in your browser devtools under the Network tab and see where it’s looking for those files

       
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it’s presumably 404ing so you can just see what the URL that is 404ing is

       
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Ok. Yeah, this is what I see in there. Themes is /themes/.

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ok

       
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