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I needed to move a CuteNews V2.0.3 implementation to a new server.
I followed all instructions to the letter. It didn't work. Had several more tries looking for any possible things I may have missed and checking the forums for advice. No luck.
The closest I got was in edit news all the stories were listed with a title of <no title:> and clicking on one of those got me News entry not found!
Conclusion: For me it just doesn't work, perhaps in other circumstances it does but there's a risk.
I've had to go back to the v1.5.3 which uses a different news file structure. That's a serious PITA as there's no way to import the v2.x stories so you either lose the old stories or need do some tedious cut and paste - that's not easy so for anyone wondering: install v1.5.3 on the old server, open two browsers one accessing V1.x the other V2.x. Then you can copy individual stories from V2 to V1. When done copy the V1 installation to the new server, that works.
One day you're probably going to need to move your site to a new server so I advise anyone installing cutenews to stick with the version 1.5.3 until such time as v2 server moves demonstrably work reliably.
Hello rob1951,
1. Please make sure you have copied all data (especially CDATA folder), and the folders` and directiories` rights still allow reading and recodring.
2. Open the CN settings and check the site directory, especially "General" > "Server upload dir" section, and the Rewrite section.
3. It is likely that the web-directory to Cutenews stays the same as previous.
Done all that, no good. Went back to square one and re-copied all files, checked permissions and General/Rewrite settings - no further forward.
I'm moving my web site to a new host.
I've set up the new host and copied by entire web site (inc CuteNews directories) but not yet changed the domain name to point at it (so testing by changing the HOSTS file on my PC)
Everything works apart from CuteNews - I can log in but config settings are missing. The right number of news items are listed but as "no title:", no category, correct date. Clicking on the "no title:" gets me "News entry not found!"
Do I need to take a CuteNews backup on the old server and copy the file to new?
Should I install a fresh copy of CuteNews rather than rely on the FTPed copy?
Should testing by using changed HOSTS file work OK?
I think this is a change from how the older versions worked but it tripped me up.
I cloned some templates with new names, edited several subheadings (Active news, Full story, Comments...), saved them but the changes weren't reflected on the news pages, I went back to the template and it looked as if it hadn't saved most of my changes. A bit more messing and it looks as if "save template" only saves the current part of the template so if you change Active news, Full story, Comments you have to save template for each of those sections.
Another small change I don't like is on the EDIT pages. Having completed your edit the button to press is now "edit" rather than the more logical "save".
The original cutenews was a useful program, I used it a long time ago but then development appeared to have ceased and I became nervous that it would maybe become incompatible with, say, a new version of PHP.
I would have been happy to pay but I had two issues: the price (currently GBP27.35, don't remember what it was before but not very different) compares very unfavourably with other paid-for utilities I use, especially since the only benefit is to remove the CuteNews credits (though I'm quite happy to reward developers for useful products, I do send voluntary contributions when developers are asking for them in respect of "free" open source/shareware software I'm finding useful).
Paying USD10 to remove a credit line - no problem. I also asked Cutenews (very many years ago) about quantity purchase. The price quoted for 10 copies was ten times the single unit price, the price for 100 was 100 times unit price That's just not business sense. Since then the market has moved on, it's got easier to get inexpensive hosting with included MySQL and there are plenty of database driven alternatives to cutenews so the attraction of cutenews flat-file system is less than it was but I guess the server overhead on reading flat files is less than running up a full database for relatively small volumes of data.
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