By screamstone on

Hey all... Becoming a drupaller and loving it... dispite the confusion and learning curve! But it's going much better than I thought it might.

I have a domain, the primary one, at www.organicchurch.com (which I haven't had time to work on.)

gocoh.com is a multisite of that install, as is viafide.org and hopefully soon, brainbucket.com

However, brainbucket.com is limping along as a static site (html) and currently in use until I can transfer to drupal.

Any way to upload to the site now and start getting data there so I can switch? I don't know what URL to use to get to the new home page for brainbucket.com, but I can't switch with the current site in use by students.

(BTW, I've changed the URL for security reasons... I didn't think it was wise to post the URL of a virgin site up there so anyone could go and get the first login and be my admin... I'd like to do that myself!)

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effebi’s picture

effebi commented

well, if will you change host too you can set your local pc to see on new host in this way:

GNU/Linux system:
edit /etc/hosts and insert the string "IP_ADDRESS brainbucket.com"

Windows system:
look for hosts file (into XP in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
edit /etc/hosts and insert the string "IP_ADDRESS brainbucket.com"

MacOSX system:
edit /etc/hosts
lookupd -flushcache

if you will not chang host try to install it under some subdirectory, brainbucket.com/cms/, brainbucket.com/web/, ...

screamstone’s picture

screamstone commented

brainbucket.com (not the real URL) is live on another host. I'm moving to a new host that's already running www.organicchurch.com and www.gocoh.com. www.Gocoh.com is in the multisite folder (/sites/gocoh.com).

I'd like to get brainbucket.com moved to my drupal host as a multisite also (sites/brainbucket.com), but I can't seem to get to the site now... I've tried

organicchurch.com/sites/brainbucket.com
and
organicchurch.com/brainbucket.com

neither seems to work.

I just can't move it when I'm using the old site. My students need to get to the site. I jsut need to be able to log in long enough to start moving the important data over.

rs

screamstone’s picture

screamstone commented

Is it possible to just create a subdomain, set it up, and then change the subdomain to a domain in /sites?

for example:

Set up:

/sites/bb.mydomain.com

then get it running and ready to launch, then simply change the folder in sites to be:

/sites/mynewdomain.com

Will that work? Not sure how Drupal does the whole miltisite magic, so I don't know if changing the folder name will break some of the stuff drupal does to make the multisite work. Will it re-route links and such or will the old links created still point to bb.mysubdomain.com?

This might be the way to make it happen....