I installed my Drupal site at http://mydomain.com/drupal and everything works fine. I registered a new domain www.newdomain.com that points directly to the http://mydomain.com/drupal directory. I tried changing the settings.php file so that the drupal site is now www.newdomain.com but when the initial page loads there are no frames. I am obviously missing some setting somewhere. Help

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

What exactly did you change?

The important thing is that the settings.php file must be in a "/sites/newdomain.com" directory.

Usually the $base_url in the settings.php file can be left commented out.

mikemet’s picture

mikemet commented

The settings.php is in /sites/default

When I access the site from http://olddomain.com/drupaldir everything works fine. When I access the site from www.newdomain.com the site comes up without the left menu panel or the rightmost panel. Just the center panel comes up.

I created a dir /sites/newdomain.com and copied the settings.php into it. Still have the problem. It seems like drupal is looking for something in the http://olddomain.com/htdocs directory. I am using a theme with three panels. All of the drupal files are installed under http://olddomain.com/drupal

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mikemet commented

OK. Changed newdomain.com to point to http://olddomain.com root and used an HTML redirect to point to www.newdomain.com/durupaldir and everything works fine. Not perfect but it works. I would prefer to not use the redirect.

mikemet’s picture

mikemet commented

Spoke too soon. Some pages load correctly and some do not. I am very confused.

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senpai commented
Assigned: Unassigned » senpai
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This is not a documentation issue, it's a user install issue. I'm closing the queue so that we all stop getting these emails, and I'm pointing Mike Metcalf (http://drupal.org/user/108578) to the Forum instead of the Documentation Maintainer team.

Mike, please post a question in the Forum instead of the Doc Issues queue. We'll be able to help you so much better there, since only 30 people are actually reading your problem here, and thousands of users monitor the Forum. Thanks!