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I have moved my site to a different domain name.  I went into General Configuration and changed the various settings that were supposed to change all the {path} variables in my site, but none of them are changing!

I can’t find anywhere else that I need to change this.

Is it a server cache thing?  What can I do to make this right?

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So I changed the sitewide url variable to cnn.com, just to see what would change, and a number of links within the control panel are responding, like the “Expression Engine” link at the upper left (in my 1.6.7) and a few others.

But in my site frontend I have nearly 100 PATH variables that are stuck on my previous domain name and not responding…

Hi, Narthex.

What exactly do you have in your path variables? Can you give me an example?

I’m using it as described in the docs, I’m pretty sure:

<scrApt type="text/javascript" src="{path='weblog/i_scripts_hoverintent.js'}">

              (scrapt = script) and

<a href="http://{title_permalink=weblog/article_discussions}class=discussions">{title}</a><span> 
</span>

I was also using the StyleSheet shortcut code, which also was pulling from the Path section in Admin > Control Panel.

When I open the site in my browser and go to “View Code” these variables end up parsed with the old domain name, not the new one that I put into the Control Panel.

BUT, certain variables do seem to be pulling the new domain name, just not within the front side of the site.  Backend things such as Lost Password links direct you to the new domain, while they used to point to the old domain before I changed the Control Panel.

Incidentally, I did update to EE 1.7 from 1.6.7 and the update did not affect this problem.

See that path=‘weblog/i_scripts_hoverintent.js ? That looks off to me.

You’d instead have something like scr=”/i_scripts_hoverintent.js”

The code as I wrote it does pull the domain name from somewhere, though.  When I look at “View Code” in the browser on the rendered site the old domain gets tossed in there up to the index.php.  Then the rest in the code line—weblog/i_scripts_hoverintent.js—gets added on.

Also, how would I code the permalink code in the way you mention?  Title_permalink to link to articles is not working, but rather putting in the old domain name.

I get this in the user guide as an example…

<a href="http://{path=channel/archives}">My Archives Page</a>

It’s found on this page:  http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/templates/globals/path.html

Narthex,

Check your site’s config.php and path.php files to ensure you’ve updated their settings with the correct domain as well.

That did it!  I had changed config.php, but I hadn’t even thought to consider path.php.  Thanks a bunch.

Thanks Narthex. Glad that was it!