[support] Switching domains but keeping the rest...

[Earnie Boyd]

Be sure to do a 301 status redirect for the search engines benefit.

Earnie

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Afan <drupal at afan.net> wrote:
> Right, I forgot to mention I copied the files folder too.
> Also, once the domain2.com works fine, domain 1.com is going to "die"
> (redirect a visitor to domain2.com).
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> On 10/24/2013 5:17 PM, Metzler, David wrote:
>> That works by design, but don't forget to copy sites/default/files (or wherever your file system settings point to)  across to the new domain place as well.
>>
>> Drupal has three parts that make up the site... the db, the code and the files.
>>
>> If you have two domains pointing to the same database, then the sites will always be the same.  It would be better to make a copy of the database.  (You can usually do this in phpMYAdmin operations tab)... or alternatively you can use the backup_migrate module to make a copy of the DB.
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>> NOTE: You may be in a situation that has every node being created in both domains.  I couldn't really tell if this is what you want... so I'd advise you to do some testing to that regard.
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>> Dave
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Afan
>> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 2:20 PM
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Subject: Re: [support] Switching domains but keeping the rest...
>>
>> On 10/24/2013 8:51 AM, Jamie Holly wrote:
>>> If you're on shared hosting,
>> Yes, it's shared hosting.
>>
>> What I did (and looks like it works) I installed Drupal on domain2.com, in settings.php changed mysql data (db name, db username, db
>> password...) with those from domain1.com. Then copied modules and themes from domain2.com/sites/all/* to domain2.com.
>>
>> I did some tests and everything works fine, but I would like to know if what I did is ok or just "accidentally" works fine.
>> :D
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