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best practice: how to move my site folder?

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mhallaba's avatar
mhallaba
32 posts
9 years ago
mhallaba's avatar mhallaba

Hey guys.

So I put the EE3 folder in my domain root. so its www.domain.com/EE3/index.php…..

This is before I realized that the index file in EE3 is my main page….

What’s the best way to move my site to www.domain.com? I don’t want to mess up any of the references in EE or the database or anything.

Obviously, I’m fairly new to this whole web development thing. I’ve been at it a month or so.

Thanks,

-Mo

PS and is there a way to turn off the website while I’m working on it so it shows a “coming soon” page or whatever?

       
Ingmar Greil's avatar
Ingmar Greil
29,243 posts
9 years ago
Ingmar Greil's avatar Ingmar Greil

It should be sufficient to simply move all your files up a level (..) and change the paths in the control panel accordingly. Really not a big deal.

       
mhallaba's avatar
mhallaba
32 posts
9 years ago
mhallaba's avatar mhallaba

Ok that was pretty straightforward, thanks. Just fixing my links now.

I have one issue though, in the CP i can’t seem to change my admin.php link from what it initially was.

Like, I type the new URL where it’s located and press save and it says “success” but it doesn’t actually change.

       
Jeremy S.'s avatar
Jeremy S.
353 posts
9 years ago
Jeremy S.'s avatar Jeremy S.

Have you read over this documentation yet?

https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/installation/best_practices.html

       

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