Removing the Subdomain to go "Live"

  • carronc

    (@carronc)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hello. I created my wp website under a subdomain so that it was “hidden” while being built.

    ex: *****.com/beta

    Now I’ve finished building it and am ready to “go live” under the domain name.

    ex: *****.com

    In hindsight I should have used the wordpress feature to hide the content, but was unaware it existed at the time I created the site.

    I’m worried that changing the url will unlink all my images and content. Is there a step by step way to change the url and apply those changes to my links as well?

    Thanks so much for any help or advice.

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  • hcotech

    (@hcotech)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    You’ll need to change the domain in your wp-config file to remove the /beta part obviously. The tricky part is, your site references that domain name for everything, and you are correct, nothing will link correctly with the wrong domain name there.

    I had a similar situation, where I needed to create a test website with a different domain for testing purposes. What I did was create a new site with test.mysite.com as the domain, and then used the “Search and Replace” script to find all instances of http://www.mysite.com and change them to test.mysite.com.

    You can find the script, information, and installation / use instructions here: Search and Replace. Just be warned, this is nothing to toy with, and you will want to remove the script from your site once you have it running.

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