ctfoto
02-01-2008, 02:21 PM
i'm not even quite sure how to ask my question, but here goes...
i've had some pictures up for some time now (ctfoto.com/blog), for which i used an early PixelPost... 1.2something, maybe? it's been great, uncomplicated and very low maintenance. so low maintenance in fact, that now, 2 years or so since i installed PP, i find that i am again needing to learn how to talk to my Mac... but i'm sure it's alot like riding a bike. diving on in, i'm sure it'll all come rushing back to me.
anyway, i was thinking i could install PP 1.7 into a different sub-folder of my URL (/pets instead of /blog - yeah, pet portraits... so? gotta pay the bills) and run it seperately from the PP 1.2 site that's currently under the /blog sub-folder. you know, test 1.7 out on /pets, get it running nicely, then upgrade /blog once i got everything looking how i want.
still with me? so, i did this, i uploaded 1.7 into it's own sub-folder, and went to /admin only to find the new version was accessing all my pics from /blog, even though in a different tab i could still access the old 1.2 admin version(?). seeing this, i went back to the new admin, thinking that the pictures had somehow just been copied from the old version to the new version, and that all i needed to do was erase them from the new version and upload new pics. i erased a few pictures, then just to be sure, i went back to /blog, and damn if i hadn't erased those pictures from that site!
i wonder if what i should've done was create a new SQL database for 1.7?>.. but i don't know for sure.
so now, i'm not really too worried about those erased pictures, cuz, as i mentioned, i want to upgrade that old site anyway, but what should i do now?
how can i - if i can - run more than 1 PP site?
i want to use the Delicious template (the image page) to make a few different galleries of work, to be navigated to from a common intro page... seems like a doable thing, but i've been thrown a little off track by my uneducated assumptions, and i'm not sure what to do next.
thanks for any advice!
cheers,
ct
i've had some pictures up for some time now (ctfoto.com/blog), for which i used an early PixelPost... 1.2something, maybe? it's been great, uncomplicated and very low maintenance. so low maintenance in fact, that now, 2 years or so since i installed PP, i find that i am again needing to learn how to talk to my Mac... but i'm sure it's alot like riding a bike. diving on in, i'm sure it'll all come rushing back to me.
anyway, i was thinking i could install PP 1.7 into a different sub-folder of my URL (/pets instead of /blog - yeah, pet portraits... so? gotta pay the bills) and run it seperately from the PP 1.2 site that's currently under the /blog sub-folder. you know, test 1.7 out on /pets, get it running nicely, then upgrade /blog once i got everything looking how i want.
still with me? so, i did this, i uploaded 1.7 into it's own sub-folder, and went to /admin only to find the new version was accessing all my pics from /blog, even though in a different tab i could still access the old 1.2 admin version(?). seeing this, i went back to the new admin, thinking that the pictures had somehow just been copied from the old version to the new version, and that all i needed to do was erase them from the new version and upload new pics. i erased a few pictures, then just to be sure, i went back to /blog, and damn if i hadn't erased those pictures from that site!
i wonder if what i should've done was create a new SQL database for 1.7?>.. but i don't know for sure.
so now, i'm not really too worried about those erased pictures, cuz, as i mentioned, i want to upgrade that old site anyway, but what should i do now?
how can i - if i can - run more than 1 PP site?
i want to use the Delicious template (the image page) to make a few different galleries of work, to be navigated to from a common intro page... seems like a doable thing, but i've been thrown a little off track by my uneducated assumptions, and i'm not sure what to do next.
thanks for any advice!
cheers,
ct