moving site on same server - C5 version 8.0

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I have been developing a site in a sub folder on my server named 'newsite'.
The site is ready to go live so moved all the old files into another folder and moved everything in the 'newsite' folder to the top level of public_html.
I made sure that pretty URL's were not set before the move and also flushed the site cache.
When i navigate to the domain now i just see a blank white screen with no errors, there also does not seem to be any code in the page when i view code?
I have got this to work on older versions of C5 but have never tried before on version 8.0

Im sure this is just a schoolboy error but cant think what to do.
Please can anyone shed a bit of light?

deanhawthornthwaite
 
CMSDeveloper replied on at Permalink Reply
CMSDeveloper
Hello,

Could help to manually delete concrete5 cache files (ftp):
/public_html/concrete5.org/application/files/cache/
Delete everything in de cache folder.
Clear also your browser cache (hold ctr+shift and pres Delete button).
The .htaccess is disabled?
The rule "RewriteBase /" must be root "/". Not "RewriteBase /newsite".

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deanhawthornthwaite replied on at Permalink Reply
deanhawthornthwaite
I ended up creating a .zip file of all files inside the newsite folder, then moved all the old files into a temp folder so public_html was empty, then moved the zip file into public_html and decompressed.
This brought the site back where I could login, clear the cache and then setup pretty URL's.
I did get a warning through the CMS saying 'could not detect your server kind' but i had a copy of another .htaccess file so used that via FTP and then cleared cache again and it worked.

Thanks for your help with this!