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Author Topic: Lost my domain - Need to move SMF to new domain  (Read 616 times)
Adi D
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« on: November 21, 2007, 11:35:43 AM »

Hello all,

Could anyone help me move my SMF forum to a new domain name? My old domain expired before I remembered to renew it. Now I need to move my forum to another domain name. I have both domains on my account.

What would be the easiest way to go about this?
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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2007, 11:44:56 AM »

Hey Adi, sorry to hear this happened to you! If you contacted support you might be able to put  new domain name on that account.  How is this setup as far as primary domain and addon domain goes? 
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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2007, 12:11:58 PM »

Hey Mitch! Yeah, it was real bad news for me as the domain was well established. I have been without constant internet for a few months now and the domain expired just yesterday. Too bad I checked its status a day too late.  Sad

I'm going to move the forum to my www.beyondfootball.com domain name. It's with LP as well so the files are already here. I'm going to place the forum on www.beyondfootball.com/forum instead of the old www.soccergrip.com/forum.

I figured it'd be pretty simple but I'm not too sure. Both domains are with LP so hopefully it'll be smooth.

I do have a custom theme and some mods so that might require special attention. You think you could make this move possible for me Mitch? I'd hate to ruin my forum with my lack of experience in this. I could give you my details if you have the time.

Thanks in advance! Happy Happy Joy Joy
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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2007, 12:24:24 PM »

I was able to track this down here real quick: 

http://www.google.com/search?q=change+domain&domains=simplemachines.org&sitesearch=simplemachines.org

Top few results look promising.
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2007, 02:31:53 PM »

Thanks!

I guess I just have to move the files out of the soccergrip folder since the www.soccergrip.com domain used to be an add-on domain. I'll have to upload the "forum" folder from the soccergrip directory to the public_html directory.

Then I can edit the URL from the forum CPANEL and run this file that changes the URLs.

I do have a major problem now though... I can't find the forum files. It appears they are all gone somehow. I don't know if I'm blind or what but there is no forum folder in the add-on domain directory for the old domain. What could it be? I emailed LP about it. I'm hoping they know where the files are and maybe they can move them for me.
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« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2007, 02:39:01 PM »

Never mind... found the files. My FTP program was just acting up and not showing all the files.
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« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2007, 04:02:56 PM »

Just got a reply from LP. Says I don't have to move all the files up a directory... I can simply do this:

RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} domain.com$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !folder/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ folder/$1

Any idea which folder or file I need to insert that into?
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