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Can I Configure Geek log without a domain name?


mommiegeek

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I am moving my website to a new host and want to have as little downtime as possible.

I have not redirected my nameservers to my newsite, so my new site is only accessible via http://server.mywebhost.com/~mysite

I have had problems with other CMS packages because the script is automatically looking for a domain name of http://www.mysite.com which doesn't exist on this server yet. Is there a way to install and configure Geeklog before updating my nameservers? I would like to avoid downtime on my site if at all possible.
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Dirk

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Quote by: mommiegeek

I have not redirected my nameservers to my newsite, so my new site is only accessible via http://server.mywebhost.com/~mysite


Just set that for your $_CONF['site_url'] then.

You may have a few hard-coded links here and there that won't work (e.g. in stories), but Geeklog itself uses $_CONF['site_url'] as the base URL everywhere.

bye, Dirk
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LWC

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You can put any URL you want in config.php. No one ever said it must be a root folder.
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1000ideen

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Yes you can configure Geeklog before updating nameservers. That`s what I always do and partly for test installations over quite some time.

The only problems I had were with cpanel. I did not manage using their strange "~userXYZ" to work with geeklog and mysql. It would work with HTML but not with Geeklog. So it may depend on the administrative interface on the server.
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