Moved updated site to live hosting, getting white screen on front-end and when trying to view CP login page

Question

I got an established site running locally on my computer and updated EE from 1.6.9 to 2.7.3. I also made other modifications to the site and it was working fine locally. I moved all the local site files to the live host and renamed the old stuff "system_old, themes_old, etc." like I was doing an upgrade. After everything was uploaded I changed the folder names and dropped the live DB and then imported the updated DB. I get a white page when trying to access control panel and the front-end of site. I have attached an image of the debug error I get. I can see the old local path is still there... I 99% sure my DB is connected ok, and all files have been uploaded. I haven't changed any paths yet, because I cant login to the CP...any ideas? I really need to get this working soon as my site is down :/

EDIT: I've managed to get rid of the PHP errors, but the Fatal Error belwo those is still there causing issues...any idea what that is from?

Answer 1

From these errors it looks like the paths are pointing to folders that don't exist (because you're moving from a local setup to live). Have you ever used a multi-environment config like Focus Lab's Master Config?

Since you can't log into the control panel and it looks like the issue has to do with paths, you could get the paths reconfigured using a multi-environment config. Focus Lab documented the installation process very well. I'd recommend looking into it.

Answer 2

It looks like you still have references to your local filesystem for both your themes folder and your templates folder.

These values might be set in your config.php file, or directly in the database. (If you set them via config, you can override any bad values in the database.)

Pop these in your config.php file to fix this up:

$config['tmpl_file_basepath'] = '/real/path/to/templates';
$config['theme_folder_path'] = '/real/path/to/themes';

Answer 3

Excellent suggestions by Derek and Aaron.

It could also be something much simpler -- try re-uploading ALL files and reset permissions. White screens can caused by corrupted files during transfer via FTP/SFTP.