Moving to new server

Regular Joined: Jan 14, 2005 Posts: 93

I've backed up my database using mysql dump, moved it to my new server, created a blank database with mysqladmin and populated it with the data from my old servers database.

However when i go to the main page of the nuke site on the new server, it has my site name in the browser bar, but the page comes up blank.

I'm running PHPnuke 7.5 on both servers.

Any ideas?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

That usually means a MySQL connection problem. Set $display_errors = TRUE; in your config.php file and try again.

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:02 pm

Hi Raven... Thanks for the help as always.

Turns out the problem was the default theme I was using wasn't installed on the new box. I copied it over, and I can now see the site, albeit I'm getting a number of errors (yes - I turned on error reporting as you instructed).

Most critcial is that I cannot login via admin.php I'm prompted for username and password, and taken to the admin control panel, but then when I attempt to click on any icon, I'm returned to the admin login screen again.

Here are the errors I'm getting when I access admin.php -

At the top of the page, above the header, the following errors are displayed...

Code:




Notice: Use of undefined constant admin - assumed 'admin' in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 35





Notice: Use of undefined constant admin - assumed 'admin' in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/mainfile.php on line 211





Notice: Undefined variable: aid in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 84





Notice: Undefined variable: aid in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 87





Notice: Undefined variable: pwd in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 88





Notice: Undefined variable: op in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 89

Once I "login", I see these errors above the header...

Code:




Notice: Use of undefined constant admin - assumed 'admin' in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 35





Notice: Use of undefined constant admin - assumed 'admin' in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/mainfile.php on line 211





Notice: Use of undefined constant HTTP_USER_AGENT - assumed 'HTTP_USER_AGENT' in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 91





Notice: Use of undefined constant random_num - assumed 'random_num' in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 91





Notice: Use of undefined constant gfx_check - assumed 'gfx_check' in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 93





Notice: Undefined index: gfx_check in /home/DOMAIN/public_html/admin.php on line 93

The last two lines of the above error message are repeated maybe 100 times or more over and over.

Thanks again for any advice you all can offer up.

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:20 pm

http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/faq-2-Nuke+.html-+Troubleshooting#18

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:00 pm

Per that document, I've set php.ini to:
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

I still get the errors. And I still am returned to the admin login page every time I try to access one of the admin modules.

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:02 pm

Oh and again, i turned on error reporting in config.php. I could turn that off, but thats not going to fix the errors, is it?

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:05 pm

Make sure that you removed the ; that is usually before the error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE line. Also, you must restart your Web Server for the changes to take effect.

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:21 pm

OK yea - I forgot to stop and restart apache Rolling Eyes

The errors are "gone" but I still am asked to relogin to the admin interface every time I try to go to any area within the admin panel