[BlueOnyx:17325] Re: Changing host/domain name for a site

[Ken Marcus]

Within their wordpress wp-admin area, set the new url, then in the server
/admin change the site name. It's that simple.

On Wed, 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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