Moved to new domain; still trying to connect to old domain.

[Ombra]

I am trying to make a copy of my forum on another domain for development purposes. I have duplicated the database and copied all of the files over, but the copy is still trying to access the original domain. It is still trying to pull the images from the old domain and several things from the database.

I cannot figure out where the copy is referencing the old forum. I uploaded tools.php and reset the cookie domain and went through all the cache clearing options. I also changed the url to the development server url in Site Name / URL / Contact Details. I'm not sure what else to do. Can someone please help?

[Im Spazzoid]

Have you changed the settings in the config.php file to match those of the test site?

[DEGE]

Hi Ombra,

Hope we both have our answers cause I'm having a very similar problem when migrating (take a look at my post Smooth migration ).

Keep in touch if you have any answers.

[Ombra]

Originally Posted by Im Spazzoid

Have you changed the settings in the config.php file to match those of the test site?

There is no reference to the old domain in config.php, but I did change the database information there and checked the memcache settings as the instructions in the vBulletin manual suggest:

If you are not using the default database cache in vBulletin, you will need to flush your cache and restore it on the new server. These means updating your Memcache settings in your config.php file. If you are using the filesystem to store your Datastore, you need to make sure that includes/datastore/datastore.php is chmod 0777 so vBulletin can write to it.

I'm still having this issue and am at a loss for what else to try.

[jwashburn]

Originally Posted by Ombra

I am trying to make a copy of my forum on another domain for development purposes. I have duplicated the database and copied all of the files over, but the copy is still trying to access the original domain. It is still trying to pull the images from the old domain and several things from the database.

I cannot figure out where the copy is referencing the old forum. I uploaded tools.php and reset the cookie domain and went through all the cache clearing options. I also changed the url to the development server url in Site Name / URL / Contact Details. I'm not sure what else to do. Can someone please help?

Please excuse this if it seems basic, but I dont know your skill level.

Are you talking about the images within vbulletin like smilies, or gradients etc? Or are you having problems with images such as custom headers etc?

The reason I ask is sometimes the paths to status icons, etc get hardcoded with www.domain.com/images/blah instead of ../images/blah


and so it doesnt matter what your config is set to its going to follow the hard coded paths.