Moving site, GS keeps looking for install.php! Cannot access /admin

[pixelita]

I just migrated a site from my development server to the client's live server and after nuking the /data and /backup folders, I went thru the motions of "installing" GS. It went flawlessly. I went in and configured the settings, then went back to FTP and restored the *.xml files from the /data/pages folder and now when I try to access the admin area, GS keeps throwing this into the address bar:

http://systemsprojectmanagement.com/admin/install.php

What have I done wrong? I need to get this site up tonight so I can leave town tomorrow. Ugh! (Also, note to Devs, if we need to write "how to move a site" tutorial, and if I need to correct my steps, I'll help write it, if you'll just get my hiney out of this jamb!)

Joni

[pixelita]

Okay, I went ahead and reinstalled GS and again nuked the /data/pages folder. This time, I just copied and pasted from the development server to the client's server and all is fine. But there has to be an easier way to do this.

[ccagle8]

The site currently checks two places to see if the site is currently setup or not.

/index.php line 21
/admin/inc/functions.php lines 70-78

...in both cases it was seeing that there was no $SITEURL listed. I don't know how reinstalling GS would have fixed something like this, but what you describe is definitely weird behavior.

[pixelita]

Well, to get it to work on the client's site, I just installed GS from scratch, set it up, and THEN went to my development site and copied and pasted the pages, which is the same I guess as typing them anew. I was not able to successfully move the /data/pages/ files to the new site without any hiccups.

So, Chris, what would be the correct procedure for moving a site from one *domain* to another (which is basically what I was trying to accomplish)?

[ccagle8]

i would have done exactly what you did...

what I was explaining above are the only two times GS would ever redirect you to the /admin/install.php page. In both cases, it happens when the $SITEURL variable isn't set. This variable obviously gets set immediately after installing the site, which is stored in website.xml in /data/other/