I had an Omeka S setup, my host was bought out, new host only has Classic available.
My original Omeka S site was in a folder /chc/ and I’d planned to eventually migrate the site into the root directory after I’d gotten everything setup - using Softaculous’ one click install + an csv import module.
I tried converting over to Classic, but the features I want/need are not available - relevant because Omeka Classic is presently installed - through Softaculous - into the root dir.
I’ve managed to get Omeka S updated and working (mostly) fine in my /chc/ folder, so I thought I would just put in a domain redirect straight to the chc folder until I finalized everything & was ready to move/rebuild everything to the root directory, however, that is not working for me.
If I put in a base directory for the omeka classic root dir .htaccess, then it does take me to my chc omeka s page, but it seems like it’s not actually overwriting all the things, because it’s not loading up the S theme (and probably other things, I didn’t dig much.)
I tried commenting out all of the Classic’s root dir .htaccess junk and pasting in the S versions /chc/.htaccess file, but that resulted in a 502.
I am feeling like I am over my head. I am positive that I am missing the various “connections” to like application/php.ini and whatever else, but I can’t seem to wrap my old brain around what I need to change/where to change it. This has obviously left me lacking any confidence in my ability to actually migrate my site from chc to the root with a from scratch install of Omkea S.
I have a few questions to hopefully bolster my confidence and/or decide on my next course of action:
How complicated /is/ a scratch install of Omkea S to the root? I read the github instructions, and it looks fairly simple, but… tbh I’m scared! lol
Would a scratch install actually fix my .htaccess file from whatever chaos has been wrought OR will it just try to append non-working commands like doing a redirect through CPanel did? OR do I have to try to fix the file, because I think I’m realizing my limitations on that happening.
Am I better off to just use an HTML page redirect and be happy with that “cheat” - even if all my url’s look like trash? Would that even work or will it just result in the same flaws & errors that editing the .htaccess did?
I’d appreciate any suggestions.