Actually used winscp for the transfer so i'm pretty sure it all transfered, i'll check again. I'm also pretty sure they changed the .htaccess and I didn't think of comparing it to a clean copy so that is something else i'll check when i'm able to.
On Apr 25, 7:02 am, acl68 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Labe, > > if you have the default cake configuration you might not have to adapt > anything > with the .htaccess file. But some ftp clients don't transfer the hidden files. > So check if they are on your server. > > Anja > > Am Montag, 25. April 2011, um 05:20:16 schrieb Labe Einhorn: > > > > > > > > > Thanks for responding, i'm not going to be able to do some of these > > tests till a little later in the week, but as for what I have seen so > > far, I have tried setting a path both absolute on the server and > > relative to the web directory, I have set the debug to 2 but saw no > > log generated. One thing that is unusual is it works flawlessly when I > > tried it in xamp on my windows box so it may be server related. > > The .htaccess I have no idea what I need to change in it to what. I > > did at one point try to make a small html file under the root of the > > site, cake seemed to take over and display it's own page rather than > > the one I wanted it to show. I'll try a txt file next time, it is a > > subdomain which may be the issue, but I didn't see any configuration > > issues (though that being said i'm not really a web server admin so I > > may not be seeing what the issue is. NSLOOKUP responds correctly but > > pings on the server are blocked so there wouldn't be a response to > > pings. I looked at the error logs a few days ago and saw nothing I saw > > as unusual. At one point it was showing db connect errors (had to > > update the login for it) as soon as the login info for the db was > > correct, that is when it started going to the other site. I will check > > the rest of the questions out when I get back. > > > On Apr 24, 7:22 pm, cricket <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Labe Einhorn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Not sure if i'm in the right place for this but I was hoping someone > > > > could point me to where I need to look. I have a webhost with a > > > > standard linux distribution and i'm trying to use some code a > > > > developer made for me. Problem is their code (based on cakephp) is not > > > > functioning correctly and I don't know why. What is happening is I go > > > > to the site in question and it goes to a completely different site on > > > > the host. None of the logs are showing anything that I can determine > > > > as an issue, the host is helping me but their not programmers, where > > > > the programers will not work with me citing "all information is going > > > > to be one way, from us to you" and I don't know where to look to get > > > > this issue resolved, any idea where I should look for a solution? > > > > Labe > > > > Can you visit any URL at all under the domain or is this occurring > > > with just some paths? > > > > Create a file at app/webroot/foo.txt, contents: "foo". If it happens > > > when you browse tohttp://the.domain/foo.txtthenthe problem is with > > > either the webserver or DNS and Apache is loading the default site > > > (eg. first loaded virtual host) instead. > > > > Is the site a subdomain? > > > Can you ping the domain? From a shell (on your computer), try > > > "nslookup the.domain" > > > If you're on Windows, try > > > this:http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Quickly-Test-DN > > > S-... > > > > Has the virtual host config been created/enabled? > > > Has Apache been reloaded/restarted? > > > Have you checked Apache's error and access logs? > > > > If you DO see foo.txt ... > > > > What version of Cake are you running? > > > If not all paths are affected, which ones are? > > > set debug to 2 -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
