TUTORIALS

1. Basic - click here
2. Pro - click here
3. ProFTP

SETUP

Setup can be done is many ways - but here is the way we use to do it.

1. Install ProFTP at your Main Site

2. In the component menu -> Sitemanager -> Categories
  • Create some categories so you can sort your sites
3. In the component menu -> Sitemanager -> Sites
  • Click New Site
  • Setup your main Site by adding all the needed info in the fields
  • You dont have to fill out the FTP info for Main SIte as you wont be using this
  • Save the Site.
4. In the component menu -> Sitemanager -> Configuration
  • Select the Main SIte for Default Source Site
  • If you want to do copies of your Main Site to a subfolder you must click the:
    Allow Sub Dir Of Source
  • Mouse over the fields so you can look at the possibilities for all the remaining fields
5. In the component menu -> Sitemanager -> Sites
  • Click New Site
  • Setup your New Site by adding all the needed info in the fields
  • MySql access could be something like: http://mysql.myhost.com
  • FTP access could be something like: www.mynewsite.com/httpdocs/newsite
    (the FTP URL will point to the root of your FTP access so remember to add the folder for the target site!! Else the copy will be done in the FTP root!!)
    You often have to append "httpdocs" or "public_html" to the path. Like the absolute path of the source site contains it.
    An example:
    /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs
    and the FTP Url
    ftp://mysite.com/httpdocs
    If Safe Mode is ON FTP will certainly take longer so the execution time is very helpful (we do NOT like Safe Mode ON!!).
  • DATABASE PREFIX: Remember to use another prefix for the new site if you use the same database - else you will have the same prefix in the database used for 2 sites!!
  • Click Save
 
6. Select your new site in the checkbox and click (Re-)Install


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  • Select Source Site
  • Copy files
    • Select what to be copied using the choices
    • REMEMBER: if you allready have some sub folders/dirs on your source site you might not want to have these copied.
      And if you are doing the copy to an existing sub folder unselect this folder to be copied (to avoid looping of the copy)
  • Update config: do you want to update the configuration.php at the target site
  • Copy database
    Here you select between the choices
    Obs: you can only copy a total database table - not just some records in a table!!
  • Synchronize
    Check the box if you want to synchronize all users from Source site to the new Site
  • Click (Re-)Install
  • You will look at the Info for doing this copy.
    If the Info is okay - click Start
    If the Info is not okay - click Back and redo your choices
  • The copying starts and in the text field to the left you can follow the operations.
    If you are copying sites having a lot of content and media it can take a while depending at your Internet connection and server speed.
  • When the operations are done a confirmation message is shown

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