By Johnbmtl on

When I first set up my Drupal installation I placed it in a subdomain and used domain forwarding to get users to the site.

I've since upgraded my hosting and I am now able to make that directory the root of my domain.

I've indicated the correct url in my settings.php file.

However, when I point the domain to that directory, I lose all pages (except the front page).
And, when I look at the url in the site information page, it still shows me going via the old domain to the subdirectory.

Where does the url information on the site information page get stored?

How can I change it?

I'd really appreciate some help with this.
I've been searching for an answer for a month.

Thanks!

John

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epicflux commented

What error do you get when you try to access a page other than your front page?

Is is that your links are still taking you to the address with the sub-directory? I'm assuming you mean sub-directory when you say sub-domain in the first sentence: yousite.com/drupal vs drupal.yoursite.com.

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Johnbmtl commented

The columns on both sides disappear but I just realised that it was the blocks that were defaulting to "none"

But no matter what I do the site info still shows:
http://www.oldhost.com/mysite/?q= node

As opposed to showing http://www.mysite.com/?q=node

And when it sends out links in new user messages it sends http://www.oldhost.com/mysite instead of http://www.mysite.com.

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epicflux commented

There are some related postings on this handbook page.

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Johnbmtl commented

I found the problem.

It seems that my ftp client was not updating the url in settings.php.

The folder that the file was in was locked.

Thanks for your help.