Perch on a Windows server

Thanks. I ran the perchtest on the client's server using the same names and user etc as in the perch/config.php file and all shown as OK. Have deleted the perchtest folder.

I'm more used to using cPanel so I'm not at all familiar with the host's Windows control panel, but I did find that one can change permissions. Have given read/write permissions to perch/resources folders and was shown that result is correct. I log back in to Perch on the server but the customising images still don't appear though I no longer get the error message (that the Resources folder is not writeable) when editing there.

Will Perch eventually pick up the images or must I reload everything onto the server?

No, the images don't show in Assets.

But nor do they show in Assets on my local mamp setup or on the staging server, which do draw correctly the personalised Perch login and side panel with client logo.

Have tried deleting, from the client's Windows server, Perch and the web page that uses it. Have reuploaded all, deleted the database and set up a new one and reimported the tables from my local version. Went to permissions in the Windows server control panel and made sure that the perch/resources folder is writeable, but the same problem persists.

Just to recap. For the moment there is only one page using Perch. The most serious problem is that initially the browser shows the page without the Perch content. I can go to "domainname/perch and log in normally.

In the Perch panel the "Listing pages" list shows the page twice in the pages list. Then going in to Edit the first instance in the page list it shows the regions correctly and their content is in there, but the page on the server doesn't pick up that content.

Going in to Edit on the second instance of the page in the Listing, the Regions are there but are shown as "New" and are empty of content. If I then edit those regions and copy in the content the web page does then pick up that content and display it correctly.

Another problem, though less serious, is that the Perch interface doesn't pick up the client logo images that personalise the Login page and the side panel of the editing ui.

I've run the perchtest on the server and it completes correctly, showing no errors. What can be going on here?

Thanks v much Drew, your last question led me to understand what was going on. Because the site lives in a folder "clientfoldername" within my MAMP "htdocs" folder, and likewise on the staging server, perch paths created in those environments all begin with clientfoldername/ whereas on the client's server that level doesn't exist.

So if I delete 'clientfoldername/' from the beginning of the page path in Page Options (BEFORE opening the page in the browser) then the page content displays correctly on the client server, and also the page list in the perch editing panel is correct, without 'New' duplicates.

Also, because of the change of path between local and final environment, Perch is not finding the client logo images for the Login page or the side panel of the Perch admin area.

Is there a way to automatically get the correct paths for each different environment without having to edit all the page paths on the final server?

OK, will do. For Mac would it mean using the paid version MAMP Pro instead of the free version? (It's not a problem, but could save a lot of time if I know beforehand)

Even if one sets up a virtual host locally, I don't see how to avoid using a subfolder on the staging server?

OK, understood, thanks. Installing a virtual host on the staging server sounds a little daunting but I'll give it a whirl.