Rebuild existing site with CMSB

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Last Post: January 26, 2009   (RSS)

By tonycook - January 22, 2009

I have read various threads which touch on my question, but none that answer my needs fully.

I intend to rebuild www.searoom.com completely, with a new template, but retaining much of the existing content. The site contains many articles from many sources, plus one particular section from a single author with literally hundreds of pages. (It is a log of a sailboat voyage started in 1998 and continuing).

I have used IT products previously (Listings Manager and News Manager) but for new sites - never for an existing one. My problem is how to rebuild the existing site while leaving the current site pages live on the same server until I am ready to release the rebuilt version.
Tony Cook
Searoom Communications, Toronto, Canada
www.searoom.com
www.boatsell.com
www.boatsell.ca

Re: [tonycook] Rebuild existing site with CMSB

By Dave - January 22, 2009

Hi Tony,

There's a few issues, such as moving all the data and article content from the old pages into the new system.

But to start you could setup your site on a subdomain if your host supports this, such as new.searoom.com. Another approach would be a subdirectory on the same site such as /new/.

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any more questions about that.
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] Rebuild existing site with CMSB

By tonycook - January 22, 2009

Thanks Dave - I was thinking along the lines of a subfolder, perhaps password protected. But what I am not clear about, is what will happen to all of the links once I delete the existing site and then move the new site into the root? Won't the individual pages still be pointing to /subfolder/ ?
Tony Cook
Searoom Communications, Toronto, Canada
www.searoom.com
www.boatsell.com
www.boatsell.ca

Re: [tonycook] Rebuild existing site with CMSB

By Dave - January 22, 2009

Yes, they will but because there are much fewer files (since it's database driven you don't have an html file for each page) you can update them a lot quicker.

Another approach is just to have your new php files in the same root dir as the other files. Since no one will no they are there they won't be able to link to them.

Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com