Name change on URL, not moving files

  • laphlegm

    (@laphlegm)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    I know there is a specific page about moving your site within the same server, and that is fine, yet I just wanted to be specific if the steps were the same for what I am doing. There was an old site set up on, let’s say, website.com. I have set up a new one website.com.yourtempsite.com on a new server. Now we are taking the old website.com name from the old site and pointing it to the new wordpress files on website.com.yourtempsite.com.

    I am guessing that all I need to do is re-point the URL and URI to the new address (website.com) and then wait for the server to point the name website.com to the new wordpress site.

    Am I missing anything here that is important?

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  • Thread Starter laphlegm

    (@laphlegm)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    Anybody out there know if I am all set to go? I really don’t want to mess this up as it is for a client. Any help would be much appreciated!

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    website.com.yourtempsite.com

    You cannot have an address like that.
    Pointing and redirects never work well with WP.

    Thread Starter laphlegm

    (@laphlegm)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    OK, well then, for sake of argument, let’s say that the old address is oldwebsite.com, the new one is newwebsite.com. Same server, all the files are set in the same place. All I have to do is change the URI and URL to the new address?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    You can try… no guarantee it will work. Read again: pointing and redirects NEVER work well with WP.
    Even if it is on the same “box” the address (URI) for the two sites is not the same.

    I also have hosting accounts where I have more than one domain and, for example, when connecting via FTP to the account, the first thing I see is:
    domain1.com
    domain2.com
    domain3.com

    Whatever I want to be displayed in domain3 – I will never upload it to domain1. I just move the files. It’s much simpler.

    Thread Starter laphlegm

    (@laphlegm)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    Hi Moshu, the site seems to work fine now, whenever someone goes to any of the URL’s, it displays fine, I posted a new thread at:

    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/128246?replies=1

    Where I was wondering if I Changed the URL and URI to the main domain name so that a plugin conflict would be resolved. Should this work with just changing the values? I don’t want to mess anything up since all else works fine. Any ideas?

    syncbox

    (@syncbox)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    sorry, [edit] sounds like Moshu helped you while I typed.

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