By Ragmop on

Hello good folks. I build and maintain the website for my company and have been running Drupal 6 for quite some time. I have finished the ground work for our new site on Drupal 7. I may have built it in the wrong place, but I want to point my domain to the D7 installation.

Here's a better picture of my issue:
Our Drupal 6 site is sillytoast.com
I built our Drupal 7 site on the same server, new database at sillytoast.com/13
Basically, I want sillytoast.com to go to our D7 site (not "/13"), but I obviously can't just move everything from the /13 file into the root directory and have it magically work.

I feel as though I'm thinking too hard about this, which is why I wanted to ask before I spend another 8 hours researching. We're running on 1and1 servers, both MYSQL5.

Do I just change the destination of sillytoast.com to the new database or is there much more to it?

Thank you very much in advance!

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Jaypan commented

What is the path of the folder on your server? Also, are you using cPanel? Plesk? Purely command line?

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VM commented

but I obviously can't just move everything from the /13 file into the root directory and have it magically work.

magically work? no. However, it is common to move a site from one folder to another when a local dev environment isn't utilized. If you avoided using absolute urls, moving the site should be as simple as replacement of the folders/files and reversing any alterations to settings.php $base_url and/or .htaccess along with a clearing of the database cache.

your confusion may come from the idea that the database was created in /13. It was not. in fact, the database isn't stored in the public_root for any of your sites.