Shrinklady

The Happy Ending….

I ended up getting a Fiverr guy to do this($20.)since I wasn’t confident to do it myself based on the advice given here. After all, this was the site of my best client, and I didn’t want to take the chance of messing it up and losing her #2 Google local search ranking.

Here’s what he did: “I swapped the folders so demo.drjanicestuart.com now holds the old site and drjanicestuart.com holds the new.

I’ve also ran multiple database queries to update all demo.drjanicestuart.com URLS (such as video, images, site URL etc) to drjanicestuart.com. The site is now live at drjanicestuart.com: https://puu.sh/p1xit/c4d9696b5a.jpg…”

What made me particularly nervous was the ‘PHP Setup’ warning I kept getting in Duplicator (free version) after every scan, to wit:

” Open Base Dir: ‘/nfs:/tmp:/usr/local:/etc/apache2/gs-bin’
Issues might occur when [open_basedir] is enabled. Work with your server admin to disable this value in the php.ini file if you’re having issues building a package. “

I kept getting this warning even after I deleted the open_basedir string from the php.ini file.

Anyway, thanks to all who took the time to help out!

OK, now I have Filezilla working!

dcts, you wrote “If then simply login and grab all the files then drag and drop them on to the folder location you to move them to.”

Do you mean grab all the files in demo.drjanicestuart.com and (without changing any urls??) and drop them into the drjanicestuart.com folder? Do I first delete the contents of the drjanicestuart.com folder?

Sorry dcts, I’m not sure what you mean by ‘(before the site screwed up)’ ??

BTW I’m using Filezilla, but can’t access the home folder.

Here’s the details (I’ve sent this request into mediatempls support):

SUPPORT REQUEST TO MEDIATEMPLE (COPY)
I’m getting the error ‘Failed to retrieve directory listing’ when I try to connect to the home folder.

‘ Error: Directory /nfs/c06/home/mnt: permission denied ‘

see screenshot:

https://screencast.com/t/YvW7XIUvj1B

SFTP SETUP:
host: sftp://s93318.gridserver.com

username: myshrink.com

Server Admin password: is o.k.

port: 22
END OF SUPPORT TICKET

Here’s the drjanicestuart.com html folder, with the blog sub folder:

https://screencast.com/t/Jd1hThvshO

All wordpress files are in sub-folder of drjanicestuart.com,
so what happens to all the other files in the html folder?

Should they also be deleted (before installing the Package for demo.drjanicestuart.com)?

I’m not sure how to proceed from here.

This is the structure of my domains folder:

https://screencast.com/t/rGMH8IAubQ

Both https://www.demo.drjanicestuart.com and https://www.drjanicestuart.com are live sites.

I created a Duplicator package for https://www.demo.drjanicestuart.com.
For the Installer inputs I used the database associated with demo.janicestuart.com,
but the for the ‘New URL’ I input https://www.drjanicestuart.com

Now, do I upload this package to the drjanicestuart.com folder (assuming everything
will be overwritten), or do I just delete all contents of that folder
and then upload and install the package based on https://www.demo.drjanicestuart.com?

( I created another package for the original https://www.drjanicestuart.com, but I
understand that this is only for a backup – its database name, database username,
and database password are irrelevant to this procedure. Could I use https://www.drjanicestuart.com/oldsite
as the’New URL’ input for this package, or would that violate the rule that
prohibits 2 wordpress installations in the same directory?

Please advise.

Sorry! See new thread started here:

“how to change domain name – shared hosting”

Thanks Nichlas, but I don’t have cpanel access in mediatemple, so unless I can implement your suggestions using phpmyadmin access to the database(s) it looks like I can’t use your solution.

Yes bdbrown I looked at Duplicator, but I don’t understand how to use it in this scenario. If I use it to make a copy of demo.sample.com (after changing the WordPress Address and Site Address to sample.com), what happens to the pages in its database with urls beginning with ‘demo.’? Are they all automatically changed to the ‘sample.com’ format?

In addition, won’t I lose any previous SEO ranking & indexed pages deriving from the old domain, sample.com?

I’m using demo.sample.com as a development site for my wordpress site sample.com. Both sites are in the same directory.

I’m finished making changes and want to change demo.sample.com to sample.com (ie. demo.sample.com will become the new sample.com).

If I change the domains (in demo.sample.com) in the WordPress and Site Addresses at Settings -> General, that leaves 2 wordpress installations with the same name in the same directory.

So if I rename the original sample.com (eg. to old-sample.com), will adding the permanent 301 redirect to its htaccess file achieve the same effect as your advice to WPDragon?

Alternatively, would changing the old site name sample.com to old-sample.com, and then entering 15 Quick Directs in old-sample.com to every page in the ‘new’ sample.com (this is practical because there are only 15 pages in the site) be the equivalent to the permanent redirect using htaccess?

Thanks for the insights!