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Posted by silekonn, 06-01-2009, 12:19 AM i just temporarily took over a website and have to transfer it to a different server. the original designer is unavailable. the prev. host used /HTML as the directory for web-browsers. The new host (IGX) uses CPanel, which is /PUBLIC_HTML . Everything moved via FTP, but the new site does not display the main page correctly. It is coded with CSS and PHP. Can anyone recommend a program that will update the references to the old and new directory hierarchy? I have FP XP, which is useless (& not for PHP). Funds are unlimited to the extent of (purchasing web editing s/w), though free is also very cool. I am looking at a trial of the FP replacement, which is needlessly difficult.
Posted by Kohrar, 06-01-2009, 03:55 AM If all you need to do is update /html to /public_html, can't you just use a text editor and do a search/replace? I'm not really aware of any refactoring tools for this type of job though. But can't you just make a sym link from /html to /public_html? Your scripts should still work properly if that's the only difference in your new host.
Posted by csparks, 06-01-2009, 10:31 AM you can download crimson editor, and do a search and replace on files in the directory. I am assuming they are all hard coded in the files? maybe even create a new file with the a variable like $PATH, and replace the hard coded with the variable.
Posted by mwatkins, 06-01-2009, 10:41 AM If that is the only issue, why not create a symlink -- an alias in other words: That's it. If your account does not have shell privileges, ask your host to do this for you.
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