Moving domains...

You must change dns of your news domain. If you have two seperate hosting you can create a index.html and use redirect it with meta code like below:



The content is redirect time as second.

Thanks - what about the underlying database etc? Can I just backup and restore to the new DB location?

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Sorry to bump....

Does anybody have an answer to this?

Can I just copy the entire php-fusion install from one site to another, change the site name and url in admin panel and then it will all work ok?

Thanks

Lee

I just did this ;)
(Assuming that the old site is using the current version of PHPFusion and you don't have any mods / infusions..)

On the old site do a database backup.
Install a new version of PHPFusion on the new server
use bigdump to restore the database onto the new server

You might want to copy the images\avatars to your new server too ;)
and attachments etc
setup a forwarding page on the old server to forward users to the new site
tell your users to use the new URL

I'm sure I've forgotten something but you will soon notice it on the new site and can FTP / use mysqladmin to sort it

let us know if you need a bit more detail


Good Luck ;)
P.S one more thing - does anyone know how to change all the links in forum posts etc in the database to point to the new url ?
I guess I need a find & replace for the whole database ??

If you are moving the site to a new server, you also need to edit the config.php file.


You could maybe do a search & replace operation with the simple Notepad software, in the backupfile before you did import it simply by changing all the old domain references to the new domain.

Now when you already have imported the database, you must do like you suggest run a mysql search & replace script on the forum posts table.

Thanks Run4ItUK!

The database server isn't changing - I'm keeping it and it's separate from the domain name.

Does that have any impact on what I should do? I suppose it's just a case of suck it and see?

Cheers

lee

*Bump*

Sorry about the bump from Jan 2007!

I've now purchased my new domain name and going to install it this weekend.

One thing I've just thought about - how do I copy my existing panels across? Do I have set them all up again manualy? :|

Thanks
Lee