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    Changing Domain Names

    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • I have developed my site under the "thekudzufactor.com/Joomla_RT_Elemental" domain name. I would like to change the domain to just http://www.thekudzufactor.com.I would like to know how to do this right. I tried what GoDaddy told me to do which blew up the site. I tried the ms config live site change and that also did not result in a successful domain name change.

      I looked in numerous sources for a straight answer that will work in my configuration and still have not been able to successfully do this.

      I appreciate all the support and help.
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    Re: Changing Domain Names

    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • The easiest way would be to simply place a redirect php file in the root of your site.
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    Re: Changing Domain Names

    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • How we I do /write that?
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    Re: Changing Domain Names

    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • James! provided a very simple method in a different post. Try this one, should work very well.
      James S! wrote:
      1. Create a new file called index.php
      2. Insert
      <?php
      header( 'Location: yoursite.com/some_directory ' ) ;
      ?>

      Create the above and place the index.php in the root.
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    Re: Changing Domain Names

    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • but i already have an index.php file for the site.
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    Re: Changing Domain Names

    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • so it is working good in a redirect way, but this will not allow me to have search engine friendly URL's will it?
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    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • Can you not just change your configuration.php file to reflect the new path?
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    Re: Changing Domain Names

    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • when i did that the error can up saying it could not find the files for line 33 of the php.
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    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • Do you have any other live sites using joomla on the same server? - If so look at their config and copy the path you will need to do it in a couple of places. Just to check you did not miss anything else last time.
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    Re: Changing Domain Names

    Posted 17 years 9 months ago
    • no this is the only site I have on that server. i could really use the help.

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