Change from dev URL to subdomain of client site w/out moving files

  • I’ve been working on a site for a client with a dedicated URL (let’s stay www.devsite.com) and hosting plan during development. When it goes live, it be a subdomain of the client site (let’s say site.client.com) but will stay on the same separate hosting plan. Here’s what I think the steps should be, can anyone confirm that I’m planning this right? Many thanks.

    1. Set up DNS for site.client.com to point to the server where I’ve been doing the development.
    2. Set www.devsite.com permalinks to default.
    3. Change www.devsite.com WordPress address and blog address to site.client.com
    4. Find-replace www.devsite.com with site.client.com in MySQL database (backed up, of course)
    5. Site should now be working at site.client.com
    6. Log in and reset permalinks.

    Anything I’m missing or wrong about?

    Thanks!

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  • Step #3 – that’s in wp-config? Cuz you have to check in there too. ??

    Thread Starter joshkadis

    (@joshkadis)

    Oh yeah.

    I was thinking about Site Admin -> Blogs -> Edit Blog but I suppose that info is in wp_blogs and wp_[Blog ID]_options tables of the database so #4 would take care of all that.

    Thanks Andrea!!

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