[BlueOnyx:17318] Re: Changing host/domain name for a site

[Jeff Keller]

I've done it without issue on a few production sites (after testing it on dev/beta sites).  You should be fine but it doesn't hurt to test it on another domain on that box just to be safe. 

Jeff



> On Mar 18, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Jim Matysek <matysekj at usms.org> wrote:
> 
> Have never tried this before, so I thought I'd ask first -
> 
> I created a test site a while back for someone at 
> theirdomain.masterdomain.org for them to create a new site on our server 
> and test it out prior to moving from their old hosting location to our 
> server. Now they are ready to move. Can I just go into the GUI and 
> change the host and domain for this site to www.theirdomain.org and 
> expect everything to work? Obviously, I'll take care of the DNS settings 
> also, but I was wondering if doing this will change the directory 
> currently found at /home/sites/theirdomain.masterdomain.org  to 
> /home/sites/www.theirdomain.org for instance.
> 
> Alternatively I could create a new site with the correct host and domain 
> names and move the content, but it's a WordPress site and I'd rather not 
> have to deal with moving the database also.
> 
> This is on 5108R if it makes any difference.
> 
> -- 
> Jim
> 
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