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Best way to move an IPS4 community within the same domain?


Adam Zupancic

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So I originally had my community installed in a subdirectory /forum/ but I wanna move it to my www root. What is the best way to do this, upload a fresh installation and use the existing database and reupload my theme and if possible, forum configuration? Or should I just copy the existing installation and move it over and modify the domain in conf_global? I'm assuming it's the second one but I wanna make sure.

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What would these old links be? Everything I use is all IPS so I would think so long as I properly modify conf_global then everything SHOULD work fine. Either way I'm downloading a full backup of the website so if it doesn't work I can just go back to how it was. Sorry to sound like a newb and ignorant but I don't know what you're talking about old links.

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All you need to do is the following, it's very very easy.

 

1. Copy all files from /forum to your / 

2. Edit he config_global.php file with the new url (remove/forum)

3. Log into the admincp, run the first step of the support tool and your done.

If you want or need to re-direct all old /forum links to the new ones, just use htaccess as below, place this in your old /forum folder, replacing/editing mysite.com with your url

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
redirect 301 / http://www.mysite.com

 

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  • 6 months later...
On 12/02/2016 at 9:36 PM, Rhett said:

All you need to do is the following, it's very very easy.

 

1. Copy all files from /forum to your / 

2. Edit he config_global.php file with the new url (remove/forum)

3. Log into the admincp, run the first step of the support tool and your done.

If you want or need to re-direct all old /forum links to the new ones, just use htaccess as below, place this in your old /forum folder, replacing/editing mysite.com with your url


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
redirect 301 / http://www.mysite.com

 

I've just done this, all working well. ^_^ Cheers....

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On ‎13‎/‎02‎/‎2016 at 7:36 AM, Rhett said:

All you need to do is the following, it's very very easy.

 

1. Copy all files from /forum to your / 

2. Edit he config_global.php file with the new url (remove/forum)

3. Log into the admincp, run the first step of the support tool and your done.

If you want or need to re-direct all old /forum links to the new ones, just use htaccess as below, place this in your old /forum folder, replacing/editing mysite.com with your url


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
redirect 301 / http://www.mysite.com

 

I'm doing something slightly different, changing the name of the forum and putting onto a new server. Would this work for that as well?

e.g. would www.oldsite.com/forum/topicURL auto redirect to www.newsite.com/forum/topicURL? 

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On 12/02/2016 at 9:36 PM, Rhett said:

All you need to do is the following, it's very very easy.

 

1. Copy all files from /forum to your / 

2. Edit he config_global.php file with the new url (remove/forum)

3. Log into the admincp, run the first step of the support tool and your done.

If you want or need to re-direct all old /forum links to the new ones, just use htaccess as below, place this in your old /forum folder, replacing/editing mysite.com with your url


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
redirect 301 / http://www.mysite.com

 

 

Hi Rhett,

We have done all this and everything is working fine apart from the htaccess redirect which it is not working

We logged a support call #975912 but the tech Marc Stridgen stated " This wouldnt really be something that would be within the scope of support really "

When we use your recommened htaccess file as above,

This url  https://www.walkingfootball.com/chat/topic/156-the-peoples-cup/

Is redirecting to  https://www.walkingfootball.comchat/topic/156-the-peoples-cup/

You will see it is adding chat at the end of the .com in the above url

Could you please help us like you have helped the other members in this thread please?

This is what we had in the htaccess file located in the old location /chat/ where the forum previously lived

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
redirect 301 / https://www.walkingfootball.com

Thank you in advance.

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13 minutes ago, Unlucky said:

 

Hi Rhett,

We have done all this and everything is working fine apart from the htaccess redirect which it is not working

We logged a support call #975912 but the tech Marc Stridgen stated " This wouldnt really be something that would be within the scope of support really "

When we use your recommened htaccess file as above,

This url  https://www.walkingfootball.com/chat/topic/156-the-peoples-cup/

Is redirecting to  https://www.walkingfootball.comchat/topic/156-the-peoples-cup/

You will see it is adding chat at the end of the .com in the above url

Could you please help us like you have helped the other members in this thread please?

This is what we had in the htaccess file located in the old location /chat/ where the forum previously lived

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
redirect 301 / https://www.walkingfootball.com

Thank you in advance.

In your case, you would need the following adjustment.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
redirect 301 /chat https://www.walkingfootball.com

This file would be placed in your /chat folder as well.

 

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On ‎2‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 3:36 PM, Rhett said:

All you need to do is the following, it's very very easy.

 

1. Copy all files from /forum to your / 

2. Edit he config_global.php file with the new url (remove/forum)

3. Log into the admincp, run the first step of the support tool and your done.

If you want or need to re-direct all old /forum links to the new ones, just use htaccess as below, place this in your old /forum folder, replacing/editing mysite.com with your url


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
redirect 301 / http://www.mysite.com

 

So, when you do this, Google won't penalize you, you won't lose your place on Google search correct? OR ???

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12 minutes ago, media said:

So, when you do this, Google won't penalize you, you won't lose your place on Google search correct? OR ???

If the redirects are working, then no. Changing from http to https is essentially the same thing. You get a new site URL and tell the crawlers about it through the 301 (Moved Permanently). 

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