We have a site running to drupal and migrated it to Squarespace. I have to retrieve some pages of drupal site but I can no longer view the site. Do you know any way to get the old content of website on drupal? Please know that we still have access to the drupal box. Any suggestions will be a big help.
Easiest way would be to make the old Drupal site available again through the browser running on a different domain like old.example.com, login into the admin panel and start copy/pasting content.
If you know your way around your computer, know the IP address the old server is running on you could for the time being change the host file of your machine to send requests for your site to the old server and get access to the site that way.
Migrating content by automating the process is also an option, but it is not only time consuming, it requires in depth knowledge of both platforms so is mostly a very expensive solution if you are not able to do this yourself.
But if I read your question, I think the first option is the easiest option. Get a hold of the technical person/party of the server the site is running on and get them to make the site accessible on a different domain.
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I've read many questions on here but nothing seems to fit my scenario and try as I might, nothing seems to work so far!
My host unlawfully transferred my domain name out from under me resulting ine being unable to use the usual plugins to export my site and migrate it… Nominet enabled me to regain access to my domain name and I’ve transferred it out from 1&1 Ionos to a new host (GoDaddy) and went about setting up a hosting plan with them.
So, what I have is a webspace with Ionos with all the WordPress files and the database from my WordPress site which I’ve downloaded via FTP and my new domain name set up with a Linux server with GoDaddy.
The issue I’m facing is, when I upload the site files I downloaded via FTP and import the database, it keeps coming up with the “install WordPress” screen to set up a fresh WordPress site.
I’ve transferred over the htaccess file and now, it’s trying to download a file that doesn’t do anything (according to the text in the file when opened with notepad).
I’m in a right pickle. Wp-config is all set up correctly so far as I can tell pointing to the new host with the new database username and password.
Can anyone provide a step by step guide on moving from another server webspace to the domain name? All the guides online I can find includes migration whilst the previous site is still active. For me, this isn’t the case.
My issue is (probably) unique because it is effectively a local host set up on the 1and1 server where everything is still pointing to my domain name, I’ve downloaded this and assumed it wouldn’t be too difficult to just upload, reconnect the database and I’d be good to go but it doesn’t seem to be so easy as I expected.
So far, I’ve spent the last 8 hours toying with it myself, and since the 11th June dealing with the domain hijacking and spent much of that time with Ionos and GoDaddy support to try and get it all sorted and up and running… Its half 3 in the morning now and this post is probably going to be my last avenue for a solution before giving up on it! 😂
Really appreciate the help.
I wanted to create a website that would be like a dropbox of sort, which just has files that me and my organization can access. I wanted to password protect the website, just a simple username and password. I have my own domain. I have been looking all over the web to find how to do this(I am a beginner) and found that using httaccess and htpasswd would be used to secure a website similar to what is shown here: http://www.htaccesstools.com/articles/password-protection/
But I cannot seem to get it to work. I am using the s3 bucket and putting the httaccess and htpasswd file in the same folder as the index.html file. Do you know how I would get my site to have a simple password protection(thats not seen in the source code or by typing in the html)? I am not sure if I am finding the directory correctly or not to implement this password protection correctly. Thank you for taking the time to read this and hopefully this makes sense!
Anyone else had this issue?
Amazon AWS alone won't do it. htaccess and htpasswd are also not the right tools for what you want to do.
Get yourself a cheap hosting account with a company like hostgator or godaddy or namecheap or any other that will host your web page and give you PHP and MySQL.
You cannot accomplish what you want just using javascript/jQuery. Those languages run on the browser, but you want to store your files on a server. Therefore, you need the language that controls the server - that is usually PHP. (The other popular solution is ASP, which is by Microsoft and runs on costly and complex Microsoft servers -- PHP is free and runs on (free) Linux and is therefore what ALL of the cheap web hosting companies provide. MySQL is the (free) database that is analogous to Microsoft SQL)
Next, watch a video tutorial on creating a PHP / MySQL login system, such as the ones over at:
phpAcademy (now called codecourse, apparently)
theNewBoston.com
You need to learn more about:
PHP sessions
Ajax
jQuery
MySQL (possibly)
On a basic website, you can stick your files into directories and control who can access those directories by whether or not they are logged in.
You can determine if a visitor is "logged-in" or not by asking for a username/password and setting a session variable. Session variables are just variables that are stored on the server, rather than on a user's own computer (of course, that wouldn't work since every visitor has his own computer and your files are stored on a central server -- so that is where the security (variables) must reside, right?)
Anyway, in a weekend of video watching and trial-and-error you can probably get something cobbled together that will do what you want.
I am new to web development, I've learned php, mysql and javascript. I'm trying to make a website that uses facebook authentication and login. At the moment, I'm still working on localhost and am running xxamp. Is there any way to use the facebook development tools on a localhost? Or would it be simpler if I made my own mysql user database?
Thanks
Facebook authentication working same way in local environment as it working in every other place (just configure application using local URL's for "Canvas URL" and/or "Site URL"). To achieve this you may use both PHP-SDK and JS-SDK for that. See examples for PHP-SDK how-to implement authentication of user.
There is however functionality like social channels for which you'll need that Facebook be able to reach the machine your app running on (this may be solved with a bit of effort too)...
I am trying to configure Apache2 so I can use MySQL for authenticating users to access certain pages. Also authorization needs to work so different groups can reach differen pages.
Now, I have googled a lot but can't find out how to do this. At least not for the configuration I am having. There doesn't seem to be any version of mod_auth_mysql that supports my configuration.
OSX 10.6.4
Apache 2.2
Now, how do I achieve this not creating my own login-application in php but using the built in support of Apache2? I'm totally stuck on this one...
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
Niklas
I also would like to use a taylormade login page, not pop-up
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how do I achieve this not creating my own login-application in php but using the built in support of Apache2
Short answer is that you can't. Unless you rewrite the Apache source code or create your own module, you can't mix HTTP based authentication with non-pop-up login prompts.
However if you are using PHP then a relatively low impact solution would be to use auto-prepend to prefix every protected page with a check on the users session. Obviously this would need a bit more thought if it is to be applied to files other than PHP source files (it'll work perfectly well if you tell Apache to apply the php engine to, say .gif files, but your script will need to detect and return the appropriate mime type).
A simpler solution might be to put a tool like squid in front of the webserver as a reverse proxy, then make the session handling data available to the squid url-rewriter.
You can build mod_auth_mysql from the source. Have a look at this post.
I you want your own log-in page, you cannot use Apache to do authentication.
Apache authentication uses the Authentication portion of the HTTP standard, and as a result you're reliant on the browser to handle the interaction with the user. There are plugins (like mod_auth_mysql) to use a database as the backend for this, but Apache can't ask the user for their credentials any other way.
The fastest approach might well be to set up Drupal or Joomla, which will get you user and group management as well as full content editing, in a way that will let you control who can edit what.
I'm using wordpress as a simple backend CMS for a flash site. Posts are queried and displayed in list format on the frontend. I want to be able to make post edits or add new posts on my staging server, and have a quick and easy way to publish changes to production without having to do a full mysql db dump / import. I've looked around for plugins or solutions but haven't found any. Seems like wordpress needs a "publish to production" option.
The intended workflow is that users can create or edit content as much as they want, then an editor will go through it and approve content. Once everything looks good on staging, we publish to production. Any ideas?
Some of this thread at Wordpress might be relevant for you as it concerns moving from staging to production and the use of relative and absolute paths, etc.
WordPress does have a preview button that should allow you to see the WP content without actually publishing. If you must see it in the flash site, I think your best bet will be to setup your flash site with XML-PRC.