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Moving drupal to a subdomain
toddfugere - February 27, 2007 - 15:29
I created a basic drupal site on xyz.com. I want to move this site to a subdomain of xyz.com is there an easy way to do this?
I created a basic drupal site on xyz.com. I want to move this site to a subdomain of xyz.com is there an easy way to do this?
You just need to move one directory
Most Drupal installations don't have or need a url defined in settings.php so you should be ok just by moving your installation from xyz.com to subdomain.xyz.com.
In a Linux based servers you could run something like:
cp -r /home/user/public_html/ /home/user/subdomainMaintain permissions for your files directory and take care of your web server configuration to know that subdomain.xyz.com has its files at /home/user/subdomain.
No change is needed for your database.
Regards!
Alexis Bellido
Ventanazul: web development and Internet business consulting shouldn't be boring
A similar thread
I've posted a reply to a similar query at http://drupal.org/node/123025. Moving sites has become an unavoidable routine task in developing websites so I think this would be an area where we can help with a more integrated documentation covering all kinds of cases of moving Drupal - test to production site, subdomain to subdomain, root to subdomain or subdirectory, one host to another, etc. WordPress has a really good documentation about moving WP blogs.