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Just moved our EE installation (1.6.0) from a shared hosting environment to a dedicated server environment, and upgraded to 1.6.4.

Now I’m unable to login and stay logged in to the Admin area.  I can get logged in, although there’s all sorts of errors in the blog due to invalid server paths from the old server still hanging around.  When I click on “templates” to go and edit them to remove these old paths and replace them with the proper ones, I get kicked out and am forced to login again.  Any option I click on repeats this process, and I’m unable to make any changes whatsoever.

The domain itself has not yet been transferred to the server, as we want everything up and running before we change the DNS entries, but you can see what we’re experiencing right now:

http://www.bttf.com/  (1.6.0 installation on old server)
http://67.212.187.42/  (1.6.4 installation on new server)

Advice?

Hey, Stephen.

Notice the second link? You have http:// in there twice. Did you run update.php from your system directory?

What I would do is work with a special hosts file on your local machine to set the value for bfft.com and http://www.bttf.com to be 67.212.187.42.

I’ve done this on my Windows machine, and I know there is something similar for the Mac.

Are you familiar with using a hosts file?

Notice the second link? You have http:// in there twice.

Just a typo on reporting the problem here.

Did you run update.php from your system directory?

Yes.

What I would do is work with a special hosts file on your local machine to set the value for bttf.com and http://www.bttf.com to be 67.212.187.42.

I’ve done this on my Windows machine, and I know there is something similar for the Mac.

Are you familiar with using a hosts file?

No, sorry, I’m not.  I know what you’re talking about, but I’ve never had to do this before.  This is the first time I’ve had a dedicated server and the first time I’m responsible for what goes on it.

I’m using a PC.  I’m not a Mac person.

Regardless, this probably has nothing to do with my issue.  I’ll be decomissioning my site on the existing hosting plan I’m on once I have the configuration on the new server working.  DNS has not been changed to point the internet from one IP address to the other yet.

I’m getting logged in now from a different PC, but I’m still missing something major.  Here’s the current results:

http://67.212.187.42/

It should look like this:

http://www.bttf.com/

Well, I changed things on one of my machine’s hosts file, and to the best of my knowledge, the EE parts look OK.

But that’s just the front end of things.

What did you change in EE to use the IP address instead of the actual domain name?

Nothing.  I simply uploaded the same files to the new server in the same directory structure, then upgraded from 1.6.0 to 1.6.4 just as the instructions stated.  This was the results.

Ah ha! The infamous missing /themes folder problem.

You’ll need to change the path to your themes folder to match your new IP address right now.

http://67.212.187.42/themes/cp_themes/default/images/bg_top.gif is one of these images.

The path will need to be changed in two places.

Which file do I change this in?

Admin ›  System Preferences ›  General Configuration

Yep, that was it!  Thanks so much!

So are we good to go for now?

Yes, thanks.  I’m good to go.

Glad Sue got you squared away.