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Hi,

I want to change the current main site (site 1) and add a new site to be the main site.

1 Is this possible ?
2 Would it just be a matter of changing the paths and moving the site from public_html?

EE v 2.2.2

It’s not that easy. There’s an older article on doing this with EE1.x, but it’s not something for the faint of heart.

I’d use DataGrab to create an RSS feed of my first site, then develop locally and add the entries via Datagrab to the local install, then when everything works locally, change up the remote install.

Does that help?

Hi Sue

That’s not what I want to do re article, he’s actually removing the site.

I want to add a new site to be the main site (site 1) and have the current main site as site2 using MSM.

I’d still approach it the same way - using DataGrab.

I spoke to EngineHosting about this and they said that it was possible by

On the file system we can rename public_html/ to something else, moving the site to a new folder, and then create a new public_html/ and remapping a new domain in the load balancers.

Is this not correct?

BTW~ -The new site is not one that has been built yet.

Hi, David. That’s how they’d handle things, but that won’t make any database changes for you. It will make it easier to use DataGrab, but if you elect to do manual changes to the database, it may or may not work. All I can suggest is a good backup.

Sue

but if you elect to do manual changes to the database, it may or may not work.

Is it necessary to make changes to the database? If all I want to do is exchange the position of the sites so to speak.

Can I not just change the paths for the original site 1?

Hi, David,

To clarify - I think Sue thinks you want to make one site have site_id 1 - that would require database changes.  But EE / MSM does not have a ‘main site’ or ‘primary site’ - just the first site, site_id 1, which is always there even in a non-MSM install.

If you just want to change what is delivered for what URLs then what EngineHosting recommended will work. =)

Hi Lisa

So I don’t screw things up with the database.

I want the ‘new’ site/domain to be site_id 1 and the one that is site_id 1 a site under MSM.

David

Hi, David -

I don’t quite understand what you want.  Are both sites under the same installation as MSM Sites?  Or are you trying to merge two separate installations?

Lisa

Are both sites under the same installation as MSM Sites?

Yes.

The ‘new’  site_id 1 will be a ‘new’ site. The reason I wanted it like this is because not all third-party add ons are MSM compatiable which I may want to use on the new site.

If you want to change site_ids then you will need to manually modify that information in the database.  Sue’s idea of an import/export could be one way to accomplish that; others have done database queries.  But that’s not supported and I would recommend making and verifying backups first in case something goes awry so that you can roll back/and experimenting first on a dev server.