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Relocate a web site (on same server)

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Hi I plan to setup a Concrete5 based website at my current website but under a preview dir. So "www.mywebsite.com/preview/" will be the temp spot so that my current site can stay up while i build the new site. When I am ready to flip over I was hoping it might be as easy as just moving all the content under preview up one level. Would that be the case or would that break things?
 
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JohntheFish
That can work, but I prefer to do it the other way round and change the domain name to point at the new site.

So typically I will have:
mydomain.com pointing to the root directory of the real site
staging.mydomain.com pointing to the root directory of the new version

Then all I need to do to go live is turn off pretty urls, flip the domain names, and turn on pretty urls.

If you adopt a process like this you can repeat it ad-infinitum for each major upgrade of a site simply by cloning whichever root directory and database is currently live to create another staging site.

PS for replication/cloning, have a look at Backup voodoo
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/backup-voodoo/...