Friday 02 May 2003 2:44:18 pm

I agree with Karsten.
This MUST be ;) the missing step.

Marco
http://www.hyperroad-design.com

Saturday 03 May 2003 10:55:45 pm

What I did is created my new section in design called 'watch' and then went to settings/siteaccess - created a dir called 'watch' copied the demo site.ini append from settings/demo into 'settings/watch and edited it to the new section.

hope this helps ya!

Sunday 04 May 2003 4:08:18 am

Re: Creating a new design

"What I did is created my new section in design called 'watch' and then went to settings/siteaccess - created a dir called 'watch' copied the demo site.ini append from settings/demo into 'settings/watch and edited it to the new section.

hope this helps ya"
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Here's where I get lost again.

1: how do you 'create a dir?

2. What do you mean by 'copied site.ini append'? -- what is 'site.ini append' and why is it necessary to copy?

3. What do you mean why you say 'and edited it to the new section'?

Thanks,
Ric

Sunday 04 May 2003 11:34:15 am

Thanks Katie! That did the trick.

Ric, I feel Katie's instruction are all you need to get this working but I will try to spell things out a little for you.

Go into your design folder and copy the contents of the demo folder to a new folder called mydesign

Now go into your settings folder then into your siteaccess folder and create a new directory (see your operating system manual on how to create a new directory) called mydesign.

Copy the file site.ini.append from settings/siteaccess/demo into your new directory (settings/siteaccess/mydesign).

Open your newly created settings/siteaccess/mydesign/site.ini.append in your favorite text editor and change the last line from:
[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=demo

to:

[DesignSettings]
SiteDesign=mydesign

Save the file and go check out www.yourdomain.com/index.php/mydesign/

You should see the demo site but you can now edit the files under design/mydesign to create whatever new design you want without affecting the original demo site.

There are probably other ways of doing this, i.e. through the siteaccess rules as described by Karsten but I haven't been able to get them working yet. When I do I will post a full description in this thread. Unless Karsten beats me too it ;).

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Ric and Jorgen, try to keep your posts related to the original question. If you have a new question, start a new thread. This site is largely unmoderated so it is up to the community to keep things organized.
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