I know this has come up a few times and I've tried searching the forums and reading related threads but I'm still missing something.
We are moving our domain to a new host but we want to leave our forum where it is, so we've set up a subdomain. The subdomain is pointed to the forum root directory and that part works fine.. until we change the URLs in admincp options..
Then we run into problems others have had with internal server 500 errors and the forum not rendering properly (as if there are 404 errors, no styles etc). So if I'm understanding correctly it is trying to find files with the old address.. but in our case none of the files have moved and we haven't redirected the old domain to the new host yet so all old URLs should still work?
I've been in contact with our host's support to make sure allow_override is set in our php.ini and that mod_rewrite is enabled. I reinstalled the install folder and tools.php to reset the URLs but got the same result as setting the URLs in admincp > Options.. but so far I'm having no luck.
Now that I've found tools.php I no longer need to delve into the database to fix the URLs every time I try to switch them over (thank goodness).. and for the record that's the ONLY bit in the database I did anything with...just changing references from the new URLs back to the old ones.
So I guess my questions would be.. what other information can I give that might be helpful? and of course, what am I missing??
I did try setting the paths in config but that resulted in no change (either way).
Thanks
We are moving our domain to a new host but we want to leave our forum where it is, so we've set up a subdomain. The subdomain is pointed to the forum root directory and that part works fine.. until we change the URLs in admincp options..
Then we run into problems others have had with internal server 500 errors and the forum not rendering properly (as if there are 404 errors, no styles etc). So if I'm understanding correctly it is trying to find files with the old address.. but in our case none of the files have moved and we haven't redirected the old domain to the new host yet so all old URLs should still work?
I've been in contact with our host's support to make sure allow_override is set in our php.ini and that mod_rewrite is enabled. I reinstalled the install folder and tools.php to reset the URLs but got the same result as setting the URLs in admincp > Options.. but so far I'm having no luck.
Now that I've found tools.php I no longer need to delve into the database to fix the URLs every time I try to switch them over (thank goodness).. and for the record that's the ONLY bit in the database I did anything with...just changing references from the new URLs back to the old ones.
So I guess my questions would be.. what other information can I give that might be helpful? and of course, what am I missing??
I did try setting the paths in config but that resulted in no change (either way).
Thanks
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