moving site to different domain

Hi Mark,

You can install CMS Builder on your current domain without affecting your current pages. You can set up a sub folder where you put all your files that use CMS Builder for development. Once you have everything working the way you want it to, you can simply move those files out of your sub folder and into your root. That way you already have your CMS set up and are ready to go.

We don't really have a guide for moving your site over to CMS Builder as there are a lot of different approaches. A good way to start would be to create all of your sections in CMS builder first, then start integrating the CMS into your different pages one by one.

This would be a good start and you can always post a question if you run into any problems.

Hope this helps

Jason,

I understand how I can install it in the domain and use a different directory for the time being. But what's the procedure to move all the data from one directory to another when I've converted everything and I'm ready to "go live".

Also, I'm having a problem wrapping my brain around how to convert the static pages to CMSBuilder pages. I have lots of pages on this site, and would like to keep the urls the same if possible. So, how do I keep the static html URL but have it a page generated by CMSBuilder. Can I build a section editor that has fields for path and page name to keep those the same. Maybe a field for "template to use" and category, so I can choose which template a page should you and what the filename should be? If you have documentation on this, please point me to it or quickly explain how I could accomplish switch a plain html site to CMS and keeping the page names the same.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi Mark,

In terms of installing the software, you can just install it in your root directory, so when you're ready to go live, you don't have to worry about moving the software, just the files that use it.

There are a couple of things to keep in mind for file names. First, since CMS Builder uses PHP, all your pages that need to use CMS Builder would need to have a .php extension. Also, usually in CMS Builder, you don't have an individual section for each page.

For example, if your site had a list of articles, you would have 1 article section where you would create all your article records. On your front end, you would have a 1 page that would display a list of your articles, and another page that would display the details of a particular record.

For an example of this, take a look at our "Add Ons" section:
http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/
This is a page that displays a list of all the add ons that are available. If you click on an individual add on:
http://www.interactivetools.com/add-ons/detail.php?Website-Membership-1012
you see the details of an individual record. No matter which add on you click on, you're looking at "detail.php" The information in the query string is used to get a particular record to display on that page.

Hope this helps clarify. The best way to get use to CMS Builder is to try it out on a few simple pages. Please let us know if you have any further questions or run into any problems.

Thanks