Discrepancy between dev and production sites

Since posting this, I'm come to the conclusion that this is NOT a hikashop issue, but one involving akeebabackup and/or sh404sef..

Sorry for the late amendment. Perhaps this posting could be removed.

Jim




I don't know if this is related to the way that I've set up Hikashop, but this problem only appears on the Hikashop area.

I have just gone into production with the Potluck Ceramics site. The production site is the in the root of potluckceramics.ca and the development site in a subfolder PLCdev off the site root.

I am using akeeba backup to move the development site to the production site.

There is currently a serious discrpancy between the dev and production sites

did you use akeeba kickstart?

if, when moving to live site, you have to be sure to specify proper db, store url, etc..

i have used akeeba & akeeba kickstart several times to move hikashop from one site to another

Yes, I am using kickstart and all the correct changes to the database. It's an issue with the sh404sef tables I believe. For now, because it's an urgent issue on the production site, I've removed the sh404sef component.

Thanks for the advice.

Jim

When you use sh404sef, the URL cache can sometimes be a problem and lead to 404 errors where they shouldn't. In such cases, you should purge the cache and try again to navigate your website from the home page so that the URL cache can be built again and it should work.

Thanks, Nicolas. Purging the URLs was the first thing I tried, but that did not solve the problem. I finally solved it by removing the sh404sef component from the site. I needed a very quick resolution because it was in production now!!

Jim