[besric]

Hi Steven,

Sorry for my English, I hope you will all understand!

I need to copy my site (with actual database) on an other domain name.

I will copy the database, the files and I will change the connect informations of course.

Only I dont know if after I will can connect to admin commentics because, in the settings / system of commentics, there is the old domain name.

I will can connect to newdomain/comments/admin or it will be not possible because of the settings in the database?

Thanks a lot

Eric

[Steven]

Hi Eric,

You should be able to log in fine to the admin panel after moving it. It will give you a little warning when you log in that the old domain name needs to be updated in Settings -> System. There are also a few other settings that you will then need to update as well.

[besric]

Hi Eric,

You should be able to log in fine to the admin panel after moving it. It will give you a little warning when you log in that the old domain name needs to be updated in Settings -> System. There are also a few other settings that you will then need to update as well.

Thank you very much Steven !

[besric]

Hi Steven,

In the Manage / Pages, I have about 6000 pages. When I will copy the database in the new domain, I will have to change all the old url ??? I hope no.

Thanks

Eric

Hi Eric,

You should be able to log in fine to the admin panel after moving it. It will give you a little warning when you log in that the old domain name needs to be updated in Settings -> System. There are also a few other settings that you will then need to update as well.

Thank you very much Steven !

[Steven]

What I would do is a search-and-replace in phpMyAdmin. If you open phpMyAdmin, select the database on the left hand side, and then click the 'SQL' tab, you can run a search-and-replace query.

The query is like this:

Code:

UPDATE table_name SET field_name = REPLACE(field_name, 'find this string', 'replace found string with this string');

So, in this case, the following should work:

Code:

UPDATE pages SET url = REPLACE(url, 'old.com', 'new.com');

(Remember to replace old.com and new.com with your domain names)

[besric]

Hi Steven,

Do you think that I can change the new urls with new domain name directly in the dump of the database before upload it ?

For me it seems more easy !

Best regards

Eric

What I would do is a search-and-replace in phpMyAdmin. If you open phpMyAdmin, select the database on the left hand side, and then click the 'SQL' tab, you can run a search-and-replace query.

The query is like this:

Code:

UPDATE table_name SET field_name = REPLACE(field_name, 'find this string', 'replace found string with this string');

So, in this case, the following should work:

Code:

UPDATE pages SET url = REPLACE(url, 'old.com', 'new.com');

(Remember to replace old.com and new.com with your domain names)

[Steven]

Yep, absolutely. That may be better because you can easily undo it.

[besric]

Ok, thanks a lot Steven and have a nice day !

Yep, absolutely. That may be better because you can easily undo it.

[ddraber]

Steven, I am moving from HTTP to HTTPS. I saw your instructions earlier in this thread for changing domain names. I noticed these instructions were written back in the 2.x days. Should I use the same instructions for 3.4?

[Steven]

If you're only changing from HTTP to HTTPs then there's very little that needs doing.

It should be as simple as updating the 'Site URL' and 'Commentics URL' fields in 'Settings -> System'.

If you let me know if that works I'll create an FAQ for it.