Site transfer issues, probably with $session ..?

[choppingblock]

Hey,

so now my first PW site is ready to go to the production server, but something's not working.

I have set up a new database, dumped my local database and imported it.

I then copied all files to the production server, changed the db settings in the config file, made site/assets writable and emptied site/cache.

The .htaccess file is in the root folder.

The site is running, but:

I have a 

$session->redirect($page->children->first()->url); 

in the home template, which is not working (displays a 404 error).

And, even worse, I can't login to the admin page. I assume that this is somehow connected to a session error... but I can't figure out where to look.

I did a fresh install of PW on the same machine and all was good, so it must be an issue related to the transfer.

Any hints are welcome... thanks.

[horst]

Maybe you try it with http://mods.pw/Z (Site Profile Exporter Module)

You have to copy a fresh PW-Installation and change the default site against your exported one. Do a normal install run and after that you are ready to go online!

[Martijn Geerts]

Did you transfer the .htaccess ? 

I like to transfer all files within a zip & then unpack it on the server. If you're on mac, use the terminal for zipping. ( sudo zip -r zipfile.zip directory )

This way the read/write stays intact and no single file missed issues.

[arjen]

@Martijn, I always use .tar of .tar.gz since I've learned tarring respects the permissions. Zip does that too? I have some mixed experiences using zip.

[choppingblock]

Hey,

thanks for the replies... I will give the Site Exporter Module a shot when I'm back in the office on monday.

Read/write I will have to do manually as I work on a windows machine (I know, I know... )

[choppingblock]

Hm. Does not work either... the Site Exporter Module seems not to work with a multi language site (i get a ton of error messages "unknown field: name1010").

I'll keep trying to figure out how to do it.

[Soma]

ProfileExporter doesn't work with languages as it was created before language support.

Make sure all files get transfered, empty the session folder and cache folder.

You might want to install a fresh PW on the server, then transfer the needed site files and db. 

[choppingblock]

Still not working. Fresh install works ok, I can login as admin. Transferring the site files and db works, even the $session->redirect on the homepage. But as soon as I log out from the admin section, I can't login again and the redirect stops working. Arg.

[Soma]

Have you deleted the sessions?

What PW version? Any modules installed?

[choppingblock]

Okay... i made some progress, sort of.

I transferred the site to a different server, and the login works now. The redirect again only worked when I was logged in... until I realized that I set the page to unpublished. Corrected that, works now.

I still have to figure out what is not working on my production server... maybe it's a php setting or something.

[choppingblock]

Ok, I think I figured out what causes the issue. Seems that the old PHP 5.2.6 on my production server messes up the encryption/hash functions, so the Password::matches() method does not work as expected (on my local machine I have 5.3.5 ...which is rather old, too, as I just realized ).

I'll try to udpate the PHP version and check again.