BCD 1 Report post Posted October 2, 2009 I am building out a Drupal website on my local test environment. Its in final stages, after which it will be transferred to the server. I have been looking around for the things which needs to be changed when put up on the server. Apart from the databse settings to be taken care of, I found a field "Temporary directory" in Administer / Site Configuration / File System. It is currently set to "\web\xampp\tmp" by default during the installation on localhost. What should this be replaced when moved on to server? Apart from this, are there any other things to be changed/noted before uploading it on to server? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
___e 0 Report post Posted October 4, 2009 I am building out a Drupal website on my local test environment. Its in final stages, after which it will be transferred to the server. I have been looking around for the things which needs to be changed when put up on the server. Apart from the databse settings to be taken care of, I found a field "Temporary directory" in Administer / Site Configuration / File System. It is currently set to "\web\xampp\tmp" by default during the installation on localhost. What should this be replaced when moved on to server? Apart from this, are there any other things to be changed/noted before uploading it on to server? The usual linux temp directory is simply \tmp Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rvalkass 5 Report post Posted October 4, 2009 I don't think the choice of path is particularly important, so long as it exists and is writeable by Drupal. The help text from Drupal's admin panel tells you what it's used for: A file system path where uploaded files will be stored during previews.If you transfer to Xisto's hosting then you probably won't be able to use /tmp as the path, so set it to a folder within your Drupal installation and CHMOD it to allow Drupal to read and write files in that folder. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BCD 1 Report post Posted October 4, 2009 (edited) Yes, I was thinking how would system path work for Drupal. Thanks for clarifying this. As you said, I created a folder in Drupal installation root. But what should I Chmod this so that its not accessible by world. Does Drupal need Owner or Group permission to access the folder? I mean should I chmod to 755 or 775 or something else.And one more thing, when entering the path in the field, should it be system path or web path?Just in case I would also disable access to robots in robots.txt. Edited October 4, 2009 by BCD (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
