jonnylons

No, I’ve installed outside of the root before.

I know why it gave me the warning, by the way. I previously had installed a MS on this site (siteAdomain.com) but had removed it when I migrated it to a new directory (the DB was repopulated with an export from the old site).

So, when I reinstalled MS, all of those old sites reappeared again.

Problem solved!

Thanks Andrea R, Roy, and Ipstenu. Yeah, the warning threw me off.

siteAdomain.com (sorry for the bad examples!) I want to be separate from domain.com, and both have their own DBs. I was just worried about config files being corrupted or something.

I have several sites hosted on domain.com through directories (domain.com/siteA, domain.com/siteB, etc.) They are all running some variant of WordPress.

So, you got to keep ’em separated works for me! I’ll report back if anything apocalyptic happens!

I hope so. I have spent the last week trying to migrate all my sites to a new server and in the process, some I have been trying to upgrade to offer multisite functionality. Was just going to use MU like I used, too! LOL! Thanks for the hope, James.

Just to confirm:

After you move the wp-content/gallery folder from old to new site, you will need to log into each gallery and hit the Scan Folder for New Images button. The galleries won’t have any images prior to you rescanning them.

Well, I was right – but hadn’t taken this far enough.

Here is a workaround – may not be the best option, but it works.

Open up your old NextGen Gallery > Manage Gallery. Take note of how many galleries you have and what you named them.

Go over to your new NextGen Gallery > Manage Gallery. Add each of these galleries in the exact order and name you had them on your old NGG.

Now, using your FTP, drag the contents of your old NGG folder (found under wp-content/gallery) into your new site (again, locate wp-content/ and put it there. If you already have a folder there, then expand the old one, and drag each separate folder into the new site’s wp-content/gallery folder)

Double check that it worked by logging into your new site’s backend. If anything, look at each gallery and then find the Scan Folder for new images button and that should populate them.

Let me know if that works!

I need help with this, too.

I was under the assumption that if you exported the data from the old site and imported to new site AND you dragged the wp-content/gallery images folder from the old site to the new site you would be good to go.

I did this and the files and images are there but NExt Gen doesn’t want to acknowledge them. I even tried updating the tables in the database, but it said the tables already existed.

Not sure what I am missing.

You win, for now, WordPress. But I’ll be back someday!

In all seriousness, I have a production site and can’t afford to mess around with it. I will try this out on an experimental site and see exactly how you migrate WP 3.0.1 MS from one sub-directory to another and point that domain there.

If I can’t figure it out, I am sure someone else will!

Thanks for your help. Andrea. Sorry I am too stoopid to figure out how to fix this!

dropped my previous tables, and imported new data.

Configured my config and my htaccess files and…

Error establishing database connection

So, it didn’t work. I am sure I missed something but getting frustrated since this is seemingly something that isn’t all that complicated and has been done before. After all, how do people migrate their WP installs from one directory to another?

To save my revised data, I just clicked Save As in Notepad, and chose UTF-8 for the option and titled the file datafile.sql. Saved it – just hope all the characters stay!

According to this article, they will:

https://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_save_an_sql_file_with_UTF8_encoding.html

Now…how to import back into database…

Thanks Andrea.

I create a data dump from my tables, copied and pasted to Notepad. Then used the search function to find the old URL and replaced it with the new URL. You’re right, it was laborious, especially on a site that extends back a few years with content, but using that technique was efficient.

Now, here is a really dumb question. How do I save that work as an .sql so I can import it back into my database? And, do I just import it or do I have to drop the tables first then import it?

After this, I will make the edits mentioned above to my config and .htaccess files. That, I hope, should do it.

I am still not finding the solution. But let me be specific here, what the heck.

I want domain MarlinsNation.com to point to the sub-directory phrenes.com/marlinsnation-site I have my domain pointed towards that directory with my host, no problem. But when I navigate to my site, it still shows the url phrenes.com/marlinsnation-site, etc. I want that to change to marlinsnation.com/…

So, here is what I have done so far.

1. I have updated my config file from:

$base = '/marlinsnation-site/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'phrenes.com' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/marlinsnation-site/' );

to

$base = '/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'marlinsnation.com' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );

2. I changed my htaccess from

RewriteBase /marlinsnation-site/

to

RewriteBase /

3. I went into my db, using phpmyadmin, and updated the following fields on the table wp-options:

siteurl

From ...phrenes.com/marlinsnation-site
To ...marlinsnation.com

home

From ...phrenes.com/marlinsnation-site
To ...marlinsnation.com

(… = https://) I got a database error.

Ok, I hope someone spots something really obvious because, for the life of me, I can’t figure this one out. Driving me MaDD ;D

Ahh…ok, good to know.

So, how do you install the site then? If I create a directory and upload wordpress 3.0, how do I get the domain to reflect the directory?

Put it another way, if I wanted mysite.com/blog to be the root, how would I point the domain to be domain.com = mysite.com/blog?

Ok, long story short:

Figured I would use the Super Admin > Sites > Edit function. But it wont let you change the Domain, Path, and SiteURLS.

Are those the areas that are changed in the wp-config file?

@ Andrea-r, you mentioned updating the references in the database. How is that done?

Thanks Andrea, but that didn’t seem to work.

I updated the links in the wp-config file but I am still getting the same URL:

mainsite.com/domainB

Maybe I didn’t mention this – I have my domain pointing to my directory. I want the URL to not state exactly where it is, but have the domain name there instead. So, instead of mainsite.com/domainB (as it was moved from mainsite.com/domainA), I want it to simply say domain.com.

I have pointed the domain to mainsite.com/domainB. I assume that there is something I have to configure in the config file for that to change but the suggestion I made above didn’t work.