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Hangin' Around Joined: May 31, 2006 Posts: 49

I created a new nuke site which I want to overwrite an existing one with. When I trialed this and tried to log into admin it would redirect me to the old sites admin panel. My question is what values do I need to change in the database in config etc. to alter the paths so it all works with the new address?

e.g. www.mysite.com/admin redirects to www.mysite2.com/admin.
but i don't want it to Sad

Thanks

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:55 am

The way nuke defines which site its in is by calling the server and asking it for the info of where its at, makes no sense for it to be relinking you to the old admin.php.

A link to show us may help.

Theme Guru Joined: Nov 01, 2003 Posts: 1006

it could just be your computers cache and cookies. try deleting all of that and then reboot. that could solve your issue.

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:48 am

You could also check your .htaccess file to see if there are any redirects in there. But the most likely solution is to change your config.php to point to the new database. There are fields for the database name, the database user name, and the password and those have to be pointing to your new database.

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 6:52 am

I've changed the values in config.php etc. Sentinal was installed with http auth on so i'm wondering if this could be the cause. Thanks for the replies so far. Unfortunately now i'm having major problems with my hosting company so trying various solutions may now take some time. I'm pretty sure its not to do with cookies or cache though as I tried clearing all that data when I first had the problem.

thanks

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:44 am

Ok every link points to the old site for some reason. As i said i have changed config.php to reflect the new database name etc yet every module seems to be grabbing data from the old site. I must be missing a simple value somewhere but I can't think where I edited the config table in the mysql database to change the siteurl to the new url as well. Shocked

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:54 am

what is the REAL url and the old url?

Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:06 am

argh it doesn't matter now all my databases have stopped working due to a fault server end...... Sad

thanks for offering though darklord

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:01 am

I found out my problem now my hosts servers a working. I'd set the base url in the header fil and forgot about it s copying the site it thought it should still go to this base url instead. Maybe one day i'll not my changes.