Moving directories with Publisher

divinemayhemstudios · 2015-02-21 12:25:25

I am not sure if this is possible, but the previous times I've started a post like this, I've been amazed with the results.

I created a 'test' site in a sub folder named /test/ to build and polish my ce4 site while my ce3 site stayed up. Now that I am ready to archive the ce3 site and replace it with the ce4 site, I find myself at a loss as to easily move all of my published galleries 'up one level' by removing the 'test' sub folder.

I used notepad++ to 'find and replace' all of the instances of /test/ with / and I re-exported all of the pages, gallery templates, and stage pages. I copied all of the ttg-be stuff over to the new location. I had hoped to just adjust the address in the publisher service and have it republish.

That was not the case as I have gotten many, many errors.

Any magical solutions?

Ben · 2015-02-21 13:41:00

Hi, can you provide a link to your site? What kinds of errors are you getting?

divinemayhemstudios · 2015-02-22 01:13:26

My main site is http://www.divinemayhem.com and my test site is http://www.divinemayhem.com/test

I received SQL errors when I attempted to edit and republish sets and galleries from the relocated publisher instance.
Here is one:

I've resolved that I've made some horrible mistakes and now I'm wondering how to completely remove the publisher history from the main site and start fresh.

divinemayhemstudios · 2015-02-22 01:52:56

I believe that I have found a solution, albeit messy. I deleted the publisher folder in ttg-be and replaced it with a freshly downloaded copy. I deleted the publisher folder in the ttg-be/data folder as well to clear out any residual gallery sets and galleries. I then created a new publisher instance in Lightroom and have been copying the title, description and Page MD test into new sets and galleries. I had hoped to preserve the test site's structure, but I can clear it out as well and use it simply for testing new galleries.

If there is a way to successfully relocate a publisher instance from a subdirectory to the root (essentially) of the site, I'd love to hear about it. I thought that I had it figured out in my head, but it didn't work out the way that I had expected.

rod barbee · 2015-02-22 02:11:00

I'm guessing that it has more to do with the database than the Publisher instance. That database error above referred to a location in the /test/ folder.

My guess is that a database connection got broken during your move.

Ben will have to confirm.

Ben · 2015-02-22 06:28:05

You should be able to move everything within test to the level above. I have something similar, moving the galleries, lib and ttg-be directories from /ttg/pages_ce4/ to /. A gallery that had resided at http://mysite.com/ttg/pages_ce4/album-one/ then functioned fully at http://mysite.com/album-one/

I then changed the Publisher API URL from http://mysite.com/ttg/pages_ce4/ttg-be/ to http://mysite.com/ttg-be/ and was able to publish albums to the new location.

divinemayhemstudios · 2015-02-22 07:30:56

Ah, maybe it was that I didn't move the actual galleries. I figured that if I marked them all to republish, then it would just upload all new ones.

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Moving directories with Publisher

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