Adopting MojoPortal

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8/7/2011 5:12:01 AM
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Adopting MojoPortal

Hi!

I have a shared hosting space on Windows Server. The site currently is a simple .net site with no CMS.

I would like to adopt the mojoportal site for the same. The site gets good amount of traffic every month and I dont want to lose the page rankings and traffic and still adopt to mojoportal.

1. Any suggestions?

2. Also, is there anyway where I can create a subdomain like test.mysite.com, test the site there and then push the content to Live site "www.mysite.com"?

Please help.

Thanks

aditya

8/7/2011 10:43:47 AM
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Re: Adopting MojoPortal

Hi Addy,

Can't say what you can do on myspace, but after looking at this site I took out Windows hosting with Arvixe which I find allows me to very easily manage & test out my MojoPortal websites.

If you just want to use the standard MojoPortal modules (HTML, blog, forums etc), getting started is really simple. I first download & Install MojoPortal to my local pc (there are other ways but I use WebMatrix to do this, its free & easy to use). This gives a standard MojoPortal website to which you can add your own content to get the site built & tested. You can then publish it to a hosting account. 

Arvixe have a MojoPortal section in their blog and a MojoPortal forum to help you.

I also use a temporary area to publish to for initial testing & later swap to the real url.

Spike

8/7/2011 5:29:30 PM
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Re: Adopting MojoPortal

Aditya,

You've found a great CMS to work with, and a great community to support it - great choice!

As Spike mentioned, Arvixe is a great hosting provider; setting up a staging environment is as easy as creating a subdomain, setting up a database through your hosting UI, and installing your "testing" installation on the subdomain (ex: mytestingsite.myexistingdomain.com). This is my standard procedure for my clients, to allow better pre-launch collaboration.

Since you can point to the same database from either the primary or subdomain, it makes it easy to get everything set up, then when the staging site is fully prepared, approved, and ready to go, install mojo to your primary URL (www.myexistingdomain.com), and instead of running the install, just point the connection string to your existing database, and your new instance is live, and ready to rock.

One caveat; make sure that any images you use in the staging server site are copied over to the live site before you make the switch, to avoid "broken" image links.

One of the ways you can ensure that existing site traffic won't hit a "page not found" error is to utilize the 301 Redirect feature in the Administration section of mojoPortal.  You can point old page URLs to their new counterpart there, and your site visitors will barely notice a thing.

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