Comments on: How to Move WPMU to a New Domain – The Simplest Guide Ever http://wpmu.org/how-to-move-wpmu-to-a-new-domain-the-simplest-guide-ever/ WordPress, Multisite & BuddyPress plugins, themes, news and reviews and special offers from the team at WPMU.org Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Filly http://wpmu.org/how-to-move-wpmu-to-a-new-domain-the-simplest-guide-ever/#comment-10221 Filly Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:06:34 +0000 http://wpmu.org/?p=26815#comment-10221 Also don't forget to change the value for DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE otherwise it will not be possible to login to your new installation. Also don’t forget to change the value for DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE otherwise it will not be possible to login to your new installation.

]]> By: Chris Vancoillie http://wpmu.org/how-to-move-wpmu-to-a-new-domain-the-simplest-guide-ever/#comment-6106 Chris Vancoillie Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:38:17 +0000 http://wpmu.org/?p=26815#comment-6106 Thank you for the very informative guide. We would like to add www to our existing site http://ancestry24.com that's been up and running for a while now. We are running: WPMU 2.8.6 / Buddypress 1.1.3 I've commented out the www stripping code in wpmu-settings.php, added a 301 redirect in .htaccess to add www. Search and replaced all the instances of http://ancestry24.com to http://www.ancestry24.com and edited wp-config.php to use www.ancestry24.com, but all fails... Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you for the very informative guide.

We would like to add www to our existing site http://ancestry24.com that’s been up and running for a while now.

We are running: WPMU 2.8.6 / Buddypress 1.1.3

I’ve commented out the www stripping code in wpmu-settings.php, added a 301 redirect in .htaccess to add www. Search and replaced all the instances of http://ancestry24.com to http://www.ancestry24.com and edited wp-config.php to use http://www.ancestry24.com, but all fails…

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

]]> By: David Coveney http://wpmu.org/how-to-move-wpmu-to-a-new-domain-the-simplest-guide-ever/#comment-6061 David Coveney Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:28:40 +0000 http://wpmu.org/?p=26815#comment-6061 Uhm, typo in my previous message - instead of just ',badly,' there should be ', could be badly corrupted,' - sorry about that. Uhm, typo in my previous message – instead of just ‘,badly,’ there should be ‘, could be badly corrupted,’ – sorry about that.

]]> By: David Coveney http://wpmu.org/how-to-move-wpmu-to-a-new-domain-the-simplest-guide-ever/#comment-6060 David Coveney Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:20:59 +0000 http://wpmu.org/?p=26815#comment-6060 Nice guide, but you can't just do a search and replace on the SQL output from a DB backup and expect it to work properly, sadly. What will happen is that the serialized PHP arrays that are used in many places in WP, badly, if the domain appears in them and the length changes in any way. Widgets will break, settings will disappear... it's not pretty. Your method is fine for a simple install, with simple blogs, but otherwise flakey. Thankfully, and without doing too much of my own trumpet blowing, I hope, I recently documented an alternative way to migrate WPMU and pals over at http://www.interconnectit.com/719/migrating-a-wordpresswpmubuddypress-website/ and we've released a search and replace utility, which works at least on the sites we've tested it on, over at http://spectacu.la/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/ I hope you don't mind those links in there, and that you find them useful. Nice guide, but you can’t just do a search and replace on the SQL output from a DB backup and expect it to work properly, sadly. What will happen is that the serialized PHP arrays that are used in many places in WP, badly, if the domain appears in them and the length changes in any way. Widgets will break, settings will disappear… it’s not pretty.

Your method is fine for a simple install, with simple blogs, but otherwise flakey.

Thankfully, and without doing too much of my own trumpet blowing, I hope, I recently documented an alternative way to migrate WPMU and pals over at http://www.interconnectit.com/719/migrating-a-wordpresswpmubuddypress-website/ and we’ve released a search and replace utility, which works at least on the sites we’ve tested it on, over at http://spectacu.la/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

I hope you don’t mind those links in there, and that you find them useful.

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