Question

I had created my website on localhost under a subdirectory ‘joomla’. Now I have ported this website to my hosting server under another subdirectory ‘testing’. After doing this, whenever I user any of the menu items created, they try and find a page under the ‘joomla’ folder instead of ‘testing’

So the links are something like http://www.mydomain.com/joomla/articleid=… instead of http://mydomain.com/testing/articleid=…

To which file should I make this change and where in the file? I tried looking into configuration.php but couldn’t make much sense of where I should make the change.

This is a problem only for the menu used on the home page (my home page is a custom page) I also noticed that the home page does not directly access images in the /testing/images folder. I have to explicitly add the /testing to the image src.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Look in the configuration.php file. There’s a couple of variables you’ll have to change:

In Joomla 1.0:

$mosConfig_absolute_path = 'C:/webroot/joomla'; $mosConfig_cachepath = 'C:/webroot/joomla/cache'; $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://localhost/joomla'; // change to: $mosConfig_absolute_path = '/home/username/www/testing'; // of course, use your own path here - find it out with php_info() $mosConfig_cachepath = '/home/username/www/testing/cache'; $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://www.mydomain.com/testing'; 

In Joomla 1.5:

var $log_path = '/home/username/www/testing/logs'; var $tmp_path = '/home/username/www/testing/tmp'; var $live_site = 'http://www.mydomain.com/testing';