Hello everybody!
Yesterday I moved my Joomla website from "normal" server to VPS. I did it by Akeeba. After setting redirection of the domain it appears that my Joomla and CF doesn't work properly. What was the problems?
- I couldn't open in Joomla's backend option for cleaning cache. It appears blank white page.
- I couldn't save CF. Neither the code nor form wizard. Saving code looks like it's done, but no changes. Saving form wizard redirects me to main page of backend.
After while and some search and studying server logs i fond the solution.
1. I found that the cache should be handled by file but I couldn't change this in backend (I could choose only file from drop down list). In configuration.php file change line 43 form
public $cache_handler = 'apc';
to
public $cache_handler = 'file';
2. Problem with CF was more complicated. First of all you need to change max_input_vars It's PHP option. You can do it changing value in php.ini file or... other way which depends on server's settings. In my case I used server's admin panel (Plesk) feature to rewrite php option and chenged max_input_vars from 1000 to 2000. You can also try to set max_input_vars in httaccess file or use ini_set in template's index.php file.
It solved part of the problem. Still could't save form wizard. Silly thing. My main directory had permissions 700 and should be 755. By main directory I mean directory where is located Joomla. For example: var/home/mydomain.com/[Joomla files]
The directory mydomain.com should have permissions 755
And this solved all of my problems.
So good luck and hope it will help.
Yesterday I moved my Joomla website from "normal" server to VPS. I did it by Akeeba. After setting redirection of the domain it appears that my Joomla and CF doesn't work properly. What was the problems?
- I couldn't open in Joomla's backend option for cleaning cache. It appears blank white page.
- I couldn't save CF. Neither the code nor form wizard. Saving code looks like it's done, but no changes. Saving form wizard redirects me to main page of backend.
After while and some search and studying server logs i fond the solution.
1. I found that the cache should be handled by file but I couldn't change this in backend (I could choose only file from drop down list). In configuration.php file change line 43 form
public $cache_handler = 'apc';
to
public $cache_handler = 'file';
2. Problem with CF was more complicated. First of all you need to change max_input_vars It's PHP option. You can do it changing value in php.ini file or... other way which depends on server's settings. In my case I used server's admin panel (Plesk) feature to rewrite php option and chenged max_input_vars from 1000 to 2000. You can also try to set max_input_vars in httaccess file or use ini_set in template's index.php file.
It solved part of the problem. Still could't save form wizard. Silly thing. My main directory had permissions 700 and should be 755. By main directory I mean directory where is located Joomla. For example: var/home/mydomain.com/[Joomla files]
The directory mydomain.com should have permissions 755
And this solved all of my problems.
So good luck and hope it will help.