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problems testing locally after migrating DWCS3 to DWCS5.5

Mar 24, 2012 2:11 PM

Tags: #cs3 #cs5.5 #dreamweaver #localsettings

Back story is: Following the excellent Mr. Powers' suggestion (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/439283), I recovered my 'lost' sites by importing them into the HKEY registry of my new machine. All good and fine, suddenly my new PC with its new DWCS5.5 is populated with all my old sites! (I've had to re-enter remote usernames and PW's, but, no problem.)

Problem is, that now, whilst testing on my local server, the links are broken (404) -- whereas before, on the old local testing server, all was fine.
New server set-up just as old one--  example C:\xampp\htdocs\thesite .

 

Hover over a link & address bar says "localhost/filename.php" where it should (and did on old machine) read "localhost/sitename/filename.php". I can't seem to figure out how to test locally (just when I thought I'd begun to advance as a web developer! lol)
To my mind this should be a simple matter of a well formed site definition, but, I'm flummoxed.

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

1317 Views   11 Replies   Latest reply: robertbeau, Mar 27, 2012 5:50 PM
 
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  • Nancy O.
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    1. Nancy O.,
    Mar 24, 2012 2:17 PM   in reply to robertbeau
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    Let's see how your Local Testing Server Folder is configured.  Site > Manage Sites > Edit...

    Can you show us a screenshot?  Use the forum's camera icon.

     

     

     

     

     

    Nancy O.

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  • robertbeau
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    2. robertbeau,
    Mar 24, 2012 3:00 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Thanks Nancy. Is this the screen shot you are looking for?
    grab1.PNG

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    3. Nancy O.,
    Mar 24, 2012 3:20 PM   in reply to robertbeau
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    OK.  That looks fine.

     

    Are you using links relative to document or site root?

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • robertbeau
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    4. robertbeau,
    Mar 24, 2012 3:26 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Site root

    The menu.inc.php has the link, like so: /foldername/ , then the .htaccess takes care of the rest.

     

    Odd thing is that on old PC & DWCS3 local testing not a problem.

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    5. Nancy O.,
    Mar 24, 2012 4:08 PM   in reply to robertbeau
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    Not sure what you mean. 

    What's in the .htaccess file that "takes care of the rest"?  

    Is that .htaccess file in your local testing site?

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • robertbeau
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    6. robertbeau,
    Mar 24, 2012 4:08 PM   in reply to robertbeau
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    Hmm, tinkered a bit more with settings and got this warning which only adds to my confusion:

     

     

     

    grab2.PNG

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    7. Nancy O.,
    Mar 24, 2012 4:13 PM   in reply to robertbeau
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    You're missing a backslash on Server folder:

     

    C:\xamp\htdocs\wollmanStudios\

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • robertbeau
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    8. robertbeau,
    Mar 24, 2012 4:57 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    I'm using ".htaccess" to set the default file inside "/somefolder/" so that a link to "/somefolder/" becomes the same as "/somefolder/defaultfile.php"

     

    All files are present and acounted for.

    Seems to me, testing site is well configured (as in my first screen-shot). So as I hover over "sculpture" the address window should read "localhost/wollmanStudios/" and the link should convey user to the desired location. Instead, user goes to "localhost/sculpture", obviously the wrong address. See screen-shot below:

     

    grab3.jpg

     

     

    Thanks for your help :-) , I'll continue plugging away at the site management configuration.

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    9. Nancy O.,
    Mar 24, 2012 6:11 PM   in reply to robertbeau
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    Obviously, links are drilling down too far in the hierarchy.

    I'm inclined to think that for testing server purposes, you may need to remove the "helpful" .htaccess file.

     

     

    Nancy O.

     
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  • robertbeau
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    10. robertbeau,
    Mar 24, 2012 6:41 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Thanks, will try.

     
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  • robertbeau
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    11. robertbeau,
    Mar 27, 2012 5:50 PM   in reply to robertbeau
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    Okay. Was a simple error of using the Deployment (links look like "/link/") include rather that the Local Testing (links look like "../link/") include file. I knew I was overlooking something silly.

     

    TNX.

     
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