Changing site's URL...

[Jwrbloom]

I searched a little for the answer, but i only found people asking if there is a fee or changing owners.  What I want to do is change the URL.  I know I could just redirect users, but I'd rather have it be at the new URL.  It's easier for people to bookmark and keep the branding.  

 

[wimg]

Yes, of course you can. It will only cost you money of you do this more often than once every 6 months.

Changing everything else over is slightly more tricky, just check my post on moving a 3.4.x board.

You need to change all references to images, internal urls, etc. Depending on your board size, it could take up to a few hors to do all this. It is a method I use to set up a copy of my live board for my test board, and with over 3.5 million posts, I manage to do this in a little over an hour if I do not get interrupted, i.e., complete copy of everything, backups, fixing the database content, etc.

HTH, kind regards, Wim

[Jwrbloom]

Are you talking running UPDATE queries in the database?  

 

So my guess on the process, separate from the URL and altering the licensing on my IPS account, I need to:

 

1. Upload all the files into the new site
2. Make a copy of the database
3. Inside the database alter all *old URL* to *new URL* references (what you say might take over an hour)

Anything else?

Is there a step by step procedure printed anywhere?

Right now, I only have 3,000+ posts with just 30 members.

 

[wimg]

Actually, at that size it should you take well less than an hour :).

I need 10 minutes to back up a database, and another 10 to restore it. At 3000 posts that only should take seconds to do.

If you are still on 3.4.x, here is the set of steps I posted a while ago:

https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/408977-moving-or-copying-an-invision-community-suite-34x-installation-to-a-new-site-or-new-path/

The principle for 4.x is the same, just that you are still on your own currently, establishing which tables and fields have to be changed.

HTH, kind regards, Wim

[Jwrbloom]

Tell me more about the reference to images.  Can I just copy over the folders from my Old_URL?

Everything is working except the images.  

[nylyon]

With 4.x I used this which seemed to work fine.

 

[Jwrbloom]

I uploaded constants.php with the secret and encryption keys.  All that did was allow avatars to show up.  Images posted by Users in posts aren't showing up.

Is there a Update query I can run on my database?

 

[wimg]

Yes, you need to run an update query on the posts table to replace all old image url references to the new url, much like the one I posted in the referenced topic.

This one:
 

UPDATE `ibf_posts` SET post=REPLACE(post, 'http://www.old-domain.com', 'http://www.new-domain.com');

where 'old-domain.com' includes the old path you used, say 'old-path' (which often is 'forums'), so 'old-domain-com/old-path', and the new one has the new path as derived from the url, f.e., 'new-path', and hence 'new-domain/new-path'. Personally I would also add the slashes at the end, just in case. The update statement would then become something along these lines:
 

UPDATE `ibf_posts` SET post=REPLACE(post, 'http://www.old-domain.com/old-path/', 'http://www.new-domain.com/new-path/');

Of course, you also have to replace 'ibf_posts' with the actual name of the posts table.

HTH, kind regards, Wim