By paulgami on

test.example.com is the new, drupal-powered website I've created. www.example.com is the old website I want to replace. They're both apache2 virtualhosts on the same machine:

/var/www/test.example.com/[logs, htdocs, cgi-bin]
/var/www/www.example.com/[logs, htdocs, cgi-bin]

Can I simply change the virtualhosts and htdocs directories so www.example.com now points to the htdocs directory that used to be called test.example.com, or is there a special procedure for moving between domain names?

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anner commented

Well, you'll need to be sure you change your settings.php file and any links you've hard coded, but other than that, I think drupal should be able to handle it.

paulgami’s picture

paulgami commented

The only thing in settings.php is the $db_url, and that's not changing, so I should be good to go. I'm not doing it until next week but figured I'd get the info in advance.
Thanks again.

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anner commented

No, it is the base url you'll need to adjust:

/**
 * Base URL:
 *
 * The URL of your website's main page. It is not allowed to have
 * a trailing slash; Drupal will add it for you.
 */
$base_url = 'http://test.example.com';