ExpressionEngine – Publish Your Universe!
I’ve recently started learning ExpressionEngine and so far I’ve been presently surprised. I’m supporting our company’s web site: www.ksba.org that uses it for it’s backend, and copying it down to my local machine was a bear.
I used XAMPP, Latest version which caused some problems because xampp’s version of php was newer than the servers. There’s millions of setting that have to be changed luckily our previous webmaster Deron Sizemore was very helpful through this process.
List of things to remember:
- .htaccess is a hidden file and would not show up in FileZilla so I set the Server >> Force Show of Hidden files option to see what it was setup as on the live server.
- I used Deploy_Helper module to see what the settings were on the live box.
- The local folder paths are funny: /xampp/htdocs/system
- Change the cookie path in the admin from .ksba.org to .localhost just remove the www
- Possibly add this to the config.php, It allowed me to login initially to get into the control panel: $conf['admin_session_type'] = “s”;
- disable extensions at the beginning: $conf['allow_extensions'] = “y”;
- bump up debug mode to be more verbose: $conf['debug'] = “1″;
- change the system/config.php file to point to the appropriate local database.
That’s all I can think of now…
ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system that empowers thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies around the world to easily manage their website. If youre tired of the limitations of your current CMS then take ExpressionEngine for a spin…