Hi,
I have a site which the client has completely changed after 3 years but I would like to keep it as a sample site for my online portfolio. The problem is it was very heavily WebYep driven, so when I copied it over to my server I have lost all the data from the WebYep pages and items. My site has WebYep installed on it but obviously with a different data folder. Does anyone know of a way to configure WebYep to read the old data?
As Paul and Helveticus say: replace the default ‘data’ folder in the
‘webyep-system’ folder with the old ‘data’ . If WebYep is loaded at
the root of you site (e.g. public_html, htdocs, etc), it may work
without changing the ‘documents’ file, but otherwise just change the
path in front of the numbers to reach the desired new folder/page path.
I transferred a site from a test domain to its final domain like this,
a couple of weeks ago and it all worked fine - and I’m basically a a
‘non -coder’!
Colin
On 18 Nov 2009, at 00:06, Helveticus wrote:
What Paul said, the numbers behind the file names in the document
folder must match the numbers in front of the file name in the data
folder
Thanks everyone for the replies. I tried your suggestion Colin of changing the path in front of the numbers but it refuses to rename the file. I have checked the permissions and they seem ok.
Any idea why I can’t rename?
How are you making your changes? You should be working only on the
‘documents’ file in the ‘web-yep’ system folder. Open this in a text
editor (I use Text Wrangler) via FTP (e.g. Fetch, Transmit, etc.) and,
once you have changed the path on the first entry on the list, you
should be able to copy and paste down the rest. The path should point
to the folder and any sub folders that hold the HTML (or PHP) pages of
your web site - i.e. /folder/page number.
Change a couple first and go to the relevant pages on your site and
you will see if the data has been picked up. Then, when you get the
path right go right the way down the listing in the ‘documents’ files.
Important! Don’t change anything on the FW files.
HTH Colin
On 18 Nov 2009, at 19:43, pixelart wrote:
Thanks everyone for the replies. I tried your suggestion Colin of
changing the path in front of the numbers but it refuses to rename
the file. I have checked the permissions and they seem ok.
Any idea why I can’t rename?
How are you making your changes? You should be working only on the
‘documents’ file in the ‘web-yep’ system folder. Open this in a text
editor (I use Text Wrangler) via FTP (e.g. Fetch, Transmit, etc.) and,
once you have changed the path on the first entry on the list, you
should be able to copy and paste down the rest. The path should point
to the folder and any sub folders that hold the HTML (or PHP) pages of
your web site - i.e. /folder/page number.
Change a couple first and go to the relevant pages on your site and
you will see if the data has been picked up. Then, when you get the
path right go right the way down the listing in the ‘documents’ files.
Important! Don’t change anything on the FW files.
HTH Colin
Thanks Colin. What a idiot I am I was trying to alter the name of the actual files !!! I have now edited the documents file and it works. Thanks Richard
Glad it worked out - we all make mistakes like that, usually from
having to work at a pace that gives us little time to think: so we
just jump in. (Thankfully, I work at an easier pace nowadays - but I
still make the mistakes!).
Colin
Thanks Colin. What a idiot I am I was trying to alter the name of
the actual files !!! I have now edited the documents file and it
works. Thanks Richard
I can confirm that… sometimes I think I know it… then forget what I did before, then do it wrong again, then learn some complicated thing, then forgetting the simple things, then give up, then pick it up again… Welcome to website design folks…
