I have a wordpress site running normally in the domain www.example1.com but I want to change the domain to www.example2.com and I have configured the dns and everything else, but the folder that is the files of the site in the server (/var/www/exemplo1.com.br/public_html/) has the name of example1.com, do I need to change the name of this folder to example2.com? Will not that hurt my site?
Obs>: I configured the server with the easyengine .
Thank you.
It will give problems, WP stores the settings of your domain within the database.
1 - First of all, make a backup.
2 - Enter MySql,
3 - Search for "siteurl" in wp_options and replace the address.
See if it works.
You can not do just renaming. You will also need to modify the EasyEngine database.
The simplest way I see to solve this problem would be:
wp export in the first domain, to generate an XML; wp import in new domain to import content; ee site delete to end the old site, when you're sure it's all right. Another thing I thought about later:
ee site create to create the new domain; ee site info to discover data from the original site database; mysqldump banco_de_dados > banco.sql of the original database; mysql banco_novo < banco.sql to restore the entire database from the original site to the new site; cd /var/www/sitenovo/htdocs ; wp search-replace dominio-antigo dominio-novo to make adjustments to the database; rsync of wp-content from original site to new site