I'm planning to install 4.6.1 on our own server very soon. For reasons of his own - I'm pretty green regarding these issues - the sys admin prefers to install on a virtual server during development and then move the install for publishing. I've read this is not easy. I have no clue how to approach this, what to tweak if needed.
I've read Umbraco also runs as the default site when installed, and this concerns me. We need to Umbraco parallel with our current CMS on the same server, then shut down the current CMS and replace go public with Umbraco. Any tips on how to install and develop without comprimising our existing config is apprecitaed.
@Dwayne In my humble opinion: spare yourself the pain! Just create a beta.mydomain.com and a www.mydomain.com. Have a look at this screencast on how to install umbraco, this is the same procedure that can be followed on the server.
Hi again. Earlier I wrote virtual directory. I need to install on a virtual machine/server: Windows 2008 R2 x64 IIS 7. Isn't this a straightforward install, same as an install directly on the server?
Virtual Directory for 4.6.1
I have moved my 4.6.1 install to a virtual folder and with come tweaking and a change to the ubmTopNavigation it works fine.
Does 4.6.1 officially support running in a virtual directory?
I appreciate I may get issues with other plug-ins which I am willing to risk, but if it's not supported, that is a different question.
Tony
Yes, vdir is supported out of the box, but it's pretty inconvenient in my humble opinion, for reasons you've mentioned.
One tip, if you're referring to files, try to use ~/path/filename.extension so that you don't rely on hard coded "../" paths.
Excellent - thanks.
How can you refer to paths in templates - JS and CSS. At the moment I have them hard coded, but does ~ work in a template?
I'm planning to install 4.6.1 on our own server very soon. For reasons of his own - I'm pretty green regarding these issues - the sys admin prefers to install on a virtual server during development and then move the install for publishing. I've read this is not easy. I have no clue how to approach this, what to tweak if needed.
I've read Umbraco also runs as the default site when installed, and this concerns me. We need to Umbraco parallel with our current CMS on the same server, then shut down the current CMS and replace go public with Umbraco. Any tips on how to install and develop without comprimising our existing config is apprecitaed.
@Tony Yes, it should work in templates as well.
@Dwayne In my humble opinion: spare yourself the pain! Just create a beta.mydomain.com and a www.mydomain.com. Have a look at this screencast on how to install umbraco, this is the same procedure that can be followed on the server.
Thanks Sebastiaan. I'll take a look at your suggestion and ~hash it with the server admin.
Ok - I have been working with this for a little while now and it's far from consistent....
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="~/css/custom.css" media="screen">
Hi again. Earlier I wrote virtual directory. I need to install on a virtual machine/server: Windows 2008 R2 x64 IIS 7. Isn't this a straightforward install, same as an install directly on the server?
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