Changing my websites address

Updated 2 weeks ago by Ben Oates

There are many reasons why you might want to change your websites address.

• You setup your site in a sub-domain, for example newsite.mysite.co.uk and you want to migrate that to www.mysite.co.uk
• You set the site up in a sub-directory or folder of your domain, for example mydomain.co.uk/newsite and now you want to move that to www.mysite.co.uk
• You want to switch between HTTP and HTTPS

For simple PHP/HTML sites with no database this can be as straightforward as doing a search and replace on your files to make the necessary change. But where a site stores it pages in a database - like most modern Content Management Systems (CMS) - e.g. WordPress - we need to employ a different process to ensure all the required changes are made correctly.

Changing Wordpress URL

Krystal offers the Softaculous one-click software installer. It can import an existing site, and once you've imported your site its cloning tools allow you to make site address changes within the process.

Softaculous also has a useful Staging tool - to allow you to take a copy of your site, make changes and then apply those changes back to the live site.

Importing a website into Softaculous

Cloning a website with Softaculous

Creating a Staging site with Softaculous

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