Would like tips and advice on updating website URL and Server Path in EE1 to a subdomain

Question

I'm doing a major re-desing of an old EE1 site and would like to stick a copy of the old site on the subdomain archives.mystie.com for future access. With EE2 there are wonderful addons like REElocate to make this process easier. I haven't found anything similar for EE1

I've updated my config and path fiels and I'm able to navigate the CP using the following URL structure

mysite.com/archives/systemfolder/index.php

I have a couple of questions.

ONE

I can't seem to get it to work using the subdomain url archives.mysite.com/systemfolder/index.php

Not sure what could be preventing that, but if someone has some ideas I'd love to hear them.

TWO

The paths to my file assets (images, css, js ect) are not updating. I must be missing some setting, but I just don't know what or where.

Due to limitations on newbies posting links I was not able to add the notes on what I've done so far inline. To read what steps I've taken go to http://webbdemo.com/files/moving-ee1-site-to-subdomain.txt

NOTE: Except for one, all "links" are config settings.

Thanks for any insights or solutions! Jules

Answer 1

For your #1, can you browse static files (e.g., put a robots.txt in the root folder) at http://archives.mystie.com? Can you browse http://archives.mystie.com/robots.txt? Make sure that works, as a starting point.

From the point of view of EE, it doesn't really know that a subdomain is a subdomain--it's just a domain name / URL. So, in your config file, you should have things like this:

$conf['site_url'] = "http://archives.mysite.com/";
$conf['cp_url'] = "http://archives.mysite.com/systemfolder/";

And, for your paths, you'll want to use the full path (most likely), like:

$conf['system_folder'] = "/home/un/public_html/archives/systemfolder/";

For your #2, take a look in the control panel under: CP Home › Admin › Weblog Administration › File Upload Preferences

You'll need to update your file paths for each of your file upload destinations.

(Note that if you have hard coded full URLs to http://mysite.com/... in your content entries, those won't update.)

I think, if you tweak a few things, and double-check that you have the URLs and paths right, you should be good to go.