Best way to move kirby to another hosting

1

Hi. I have site with Kirby 3.9.1, 8.2PHP and apache. I have to move it to another hosting(already with https redirect). Does anybody has best sollution for it? Thank you very much and sorry if i missed such topic in forum

2
  • Download all files from old hosting (if you don’t have it locally)
  • Upload everything to new hosting.
  • Done.

Make sure to download/upload the hidden .htaccess file.

3

I got message: ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Is it problems with .htaccess file? Thanks

4

Maybe. Who knows without having information about the content of your .htaccess file?

5

Yes, indeed :grinning: , here it is:

# Kirby .htaccess

    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on    [OR]  
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.   [NC]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/\.well-known/acme-challenge/
    RewriteRule ^ https://mydomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]


# One year for image files and fonts
<filesMatch ".(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|otf|woff|woff2|svg)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31557600, public"
</filesMatch>

# One month for css and js
<filesMatch ".(css|js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=4628000, public"
</filesMatch>


<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On

  # Checking for WebP browser support ..
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} image/webp

  # .. and if there's a WebP version for the requested image
  RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/$1.webp -f

  # Well, then go for it & serve WebP instead
  RewriteRule (.+)\.(jpe?g|png)$ $1.webp [T=image/webp,E=accept:1]
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  Header append Vary Accept env=REDIRECT_accept
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
  AddType image/webp .webp
</IfModule>

# rewrite rules
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

# enable awesome urls. i.e.:
# http://yourdomain.com/about-us/team
RewriteEngine on

# make sure to set the RewriteBase correctly
# if you are running the site in a subfolder.
# Otherwise links or the entire site will break.
#
# If your homepage is http://yourdomain.com/mysite
# Set the RewriteBase to:
#
# RewriteBase /mysite

# In some enviroments it's necessary to
# set the RewriteBase to:
#
# RewriteBase /

# block files and folders beginning with a dot, such as .git
# except for the .well-known folder, which is used for Let's Encrypt and security.txt
RewriteRule (^|/)\.(?!well-known\/) index.php [L]

# block text files in the content folder from being accessed directly
RewriteRule ^content/(.*)\.(txt|md|mdown)$ index.php [L]

# block all files in the site folder from being accessed directly
# except for requests to plugin assets files
RewriteRule ^site/(.*) index.php [L]

# Enable authentication header
SetEnvIf Authorization "(.*)" HTTP_AUTHORIZATION=$1

# block direct access to kirby and the panel sources
RewriteRule ^kirby/(.*) index.php [L]

# make site links work
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# compress text file responses
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
</IfModule>


<IfModule mod_filter.c>
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE \
  "application/atom+xml" \
  "application/javascript" \
  "application/json" \
  "application/ld+json" \
  "application/manifest+json" \
  "application/rdf+xml" \
  "application/rss+xml" \
  "application/schema+json" \
  "application/vnd.geo+json" \
  "application/vnd.ms-fontobject" \
  "application/x-font-ttf" \
  "application/x-javascript" \
  "application/x-web-app-manifest+json" \
  "application/xhtml+xml" \
  "application/xml" \
  "font/eot" \
  "font/otf" \
  "font/woff2" \
  "font/woff" \
  "font/opentype" \
  "image/bmp" \
  "image/svg+xml" \
  "image/vnd.microsoft.icon" \
  "image/x-icon" \
  "text/cache-manifest" \
  "text/css" \
  "text/html" \
  "text/javascript" \
  "text/plain" \
  "text/vcard" \
  "text/vnd.rim.location.xloc" \
  "text/vtt" \
  "text/x-component" \
  "text/x-cross-domain-policy" \
  "text/xml"
</IfModule>


<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On

  # Images
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/webp "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

  # Video
  ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType video/mpeg "access plus 1 year"

  # Fonts
  ExpiresByType font/ttf "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType font/otf "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType font/woff "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType font/woff2 "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType application/font-woff "access plus 1 year"

  # CSS, JavaScript
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month"

  # Others
  ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType image/vnd.microsoft.icon "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>
6

I assume that this is not the original .htaccess file delivered with Kirby. So, in order to trace down your problem, I would first use the unchanged .htaccess file from Kirby. Then, place your own redirection directives into the existing <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> block after the RewriteEngine on directive and check again. In order to find messages from the rewrite engine in your log, you’ll need to set the LogLevel higher than debug into some trace level. You can leave the level from other modules as it is (i.e. alert) by using this syntax:

LogLevel alert rewrite:trace3

Furthermore, it is not recommended to do http → https redirection using mod_rewrite. Use virtual hosts instead.