I have a customer who has a site that she has been working on for a couple of months. Then she decided to change her domain name. I didn't know if there was an easy way to take the guts of oldsite.com and simply rename it as newsite.com so I did a "poor man's" trick:
First, I did a home directory and database backup of oldsite.com. Then I set up a new account called newsite.com and restored the backups on that new site. Since that action overwrote the htaccess file I went in and fixed that. Now I plan to delete the account for oldsite.com and consider the case closed.
Everything seemed ok but I just noticed that my Joomla implementation is still showing oldsite.com in the Fantastico menu, meaning updates would have to be manual.
So I think I will start over. How should I be making this change?
First, I did a home directory and database backup of oldsite.com. Then I set up a new account called newsite.com and restored the backups on that new site. Since that action overwrote the htaccess file I went in and fixed that. Now I plan to delete the account for oldsite.com and consider the case closed.
Everything seemed ok but I just noticed that my Joomla implementation is still showing oldsite.com in the Fantastico menu, meaning updates would have to be manual.
So I think I will start over. How should I be making this change?
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