Can you move installation directory or change base URL after setup?
I just got a new hosting account set up and installed ProjectPier on it. Because I haven't changed my DNS yet for my domain to point to the new hosting account, I had to use a URL with an IP address in it followed by /~zomigi/, my hosting username, and then /projectpier/ as the base URL for PP. But now I realize that once the domain is set up, the base URL for PP will need to be different -- it will need to be just my domain name followed by /projectpier/. Is there any way to move PP or change the base URL after you've already installed PP in a certain location?
To be clear, I don't want to actually move any of the PP's files -- they'll still be in /projectpier/ inside my /public_html/ folder -- but I want PP to still work when I try to access it at the new, simplified URL.
I think what you're looking for is in config/config.php. You would need to change the variable ROOT_URL.
Tim
Ok, great! I'll try that when I get to that point. Thanks!
I had installed Project Pier in an obscure location on my server to test it, and I then decided to move it to a more permanent location. Moving it took a little more research than I expected, but it's fairly easy to do.
Open [cache/autoloader.php] and change every occurrence of the old path with the new path. (There are 219 of them, so I recommend find and replace.) Just to illustrate, the first line of code in my file looked like this:
$GLOBALS['autoloader_classes']['ACCESSCONTROLLER'] = '/home/randyhoyt/www/temp/projectpier/application/controllers/AccessController.class.php';
I changed every occurrence of [/home/randyhoyt/www/temp/projectpier/] with [/home/randyhoyt/www/apps/projects/]. The exact details for this change will vary per hosting provider.
I hope this can help anyone who might need to move a Project Pier installation.
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(I don't think that last part should be necessary; a constant such as ROOT_PATH could probably be placed in config.php that would contain this value.)
Just for reference, you can simply delete the [cache/autoloader.php] file and it will be regenerated. As the directory name suggests, this is part of the cache system.
So, just worry about the config file change.