New installation…

  • Resolved Gemini23

    (@gemini23)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I have recently created a new wordpress based website for my partner – working on it offline… and then uploading it…

    before uploading it contacted the hosting techies and asked what was the best way to do it… they suggested creating a test folder and add new content to there – check all was working and then ‘move’ content to root folder and then go live…

    fine.. uploaded and all worked okay… until they ‘helped’ move the content – but it transpires that they simply ‘mapped’ the root to the ‘test’ folder – and many gallery links then didn’t work… and also an earlier blog installation (which was exactly that – a blog – rather than typical website pages… in a /blog folder (from the root) stopped working… and still doesn’t work..

    also.. redirects DON’T seem to work.. from old .html urls to new wordpress ones…. ie example.html to example/

    The question is…. is it best practice to leave content in a folder and ‘Map’ to it from root or is it best practice to move the content to the root folder? and does Mapping have any effect on website loading speed?

    and what to do about getting ‘blog’ to work again…

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter Gemini23

    (@gemini23)

    To clarify

    old html files were in the public_html folder and that was the ‘site’ apart from a wordpress installation blog which is still in the folder /blog/ but is not not being picked up due to the root being mapped to the /test/ folder

    ‘all is working’ apart from the old blog which is still in the public_html/ folder in /blog/ and I am not sure how to get it to be working again.. copy the /blog/ folder to within test folder?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Yeah, since you host mapped the domain to /test/ you’d have to move the files under /blog/ to /test/blog/

    Thread Starter Gemini23

    (@gemini23)

    Brilliant – thanks

    and that has worked! MANY thanks ??

    easy when you know how… or when you ask someone who knows!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    You’re welcome! ??

    Thread Starter Gemini23

    (@gemini23)

    slight problem in that images are not showing in the /copied/moved blog… path shows domain and /uploaded_images/image.jpg

    but there is no folder with that name… in the root…

    Thread Starter Gemini23

    (@gemini23)

    hm.. rewind… this is likely to have nothing to do with the wordpress.. but a moving of hosting etc some time ago…

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Probably, where exactly are in the images now?

    Thread Starter Gemini23

    (@gemini23)

    Resolved – they were on a previous hosting and not transferred….

    now we just need to try and speed the website up…. and what a potential minefield that is…

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Run your site through https://www.webpagetest.org/ and https://gtmetrix.com/ for some great data and advice.

    Thread Starter Gemini23

    (@gemini23)

    On to exactly them today ??

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