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I have moved an EE site from one domain to another (say, ee.example.com to http://www.mysite.com).

This was a homebrew move, so what I essentially did was install on http://www.mysite.com and then copy over the database tables I felt had important information, like categories and fields and whatnot.

Everything seems to work fine now, except one thing: When I create a new weblog, it is still using the old domain when it creates the weblog preferences.

For example, under CP Home ›  Admin ›  System Preferences ›  General Configuration, I see the old “http://ee.example.com” under the following:

URL root
URL control panel
URL themes

I’ve looked all over and cannot seem to find the reference to the old ee.example.com that EE is using to put the data into the fields when I create a new weblog.

Any ideas, warmly appreciated.

Thanks!
Jared

Nevermind. I just made a test weblog to see if I could find the method and the new weblog works fine now!

😊

Jared,

I’ve had good success moving EE sites from one server to another. Many times. Usually I just copy up EE’s files to the new server/host, export the database from the old site, import it to the new site, and modify the config.php files accordingly (sometimes there’s image files that need to move, too). For URL strings I use EE’s Admin/Utilities/Find and Replace. It gives rather pinpoint control as to where the Find and Replace occurs; content, templates, preferences, etc.

Well, I think I was having a crisis of unicode; if I dumped the whole database, anything that was serialized got whacked.

I didn’t realize about the Find and Replace function, though. That’s a good tip; thnaks!