Hello, currently my company has a .us domain name with the corresponding .com as a parked domain that points to the .us directory (all abc.com/xyz --> abc.us/xyz). According to my Siteground support, this does not use a 301 redirect or forwarding.
I am not sure if this is the least harmful way to SEO to do this. I heard 301 redirects were the best and I'm not sure if the mechanism employed by Siteground is hurting us. At the same time, I am not sure how to change this.
What I want to do is change the primary domain to abc.com and park (or otherwise redirect) abc.us to the primary domain. I want to do this without breaking Drupal, so I want to have a list of any changes, if any, that I would have to make (and how) to any Drupal config files.
Does anyone know if I would have to make any changes to the drupal install? Unfortunately it was installed long before I started here with Fantastico.
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You should be just fine
You should be just fine transferring the site. The only thing you need to check is that you have not uncommented and changed the $base_url in your settings.php. If you have uncommented this line, simply update the url to the new .com address.
Other than that, it should be a pretty straight forward process.
Let me know if you have any particular issues. Good Luck!
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I made the switch (domain
I made the switch (domain switch and the $base_url switch in the settings file) and it looks ok (all pages accessible at .com) EXCEPT when I click to submit anything, it for some reason goes back to .us and therefore I get a page not found, although the form IS submitted.
I thought I fixed it by clearing cookies and then uncommenting RewriteBase / in .htaccess, but no.