Can't Move Sites to new URL - Why did you remove the ability to set the URL

Permalink February 12, 2020 at 3:51 PM

OK People..

This is getting on my nurves now. I run 20+ Concret5 sites and i have tyo update them all. Now to do this i move a copy of the site to a DEV.url.com so i can test updates .

BUt on version 8.1+ concrete5 you have made this so much harder and complex to figure out? with no documentation on moving sites and the only info i can see is.. Yes it autodects the URL...

So i move a copy of the site to a dev server - and i remove the cache folder and changed concrete.php file to include -

'seo' => [
      'canonical_url' => 'http://dev.url.co.uk/',
      'canonical_ssl_url' => 'https://dev.url.co.uk,
        'redirect_to_canonical_url' => 0,
        'url_rewriting' => false,

Now I can't login to change any settings . and i cant update the site becasue all the links including login links go to the old site URL not the new Dev site.. So without the option to set fixed URL - this new auto detect function is just a waste of my time.

Thanks
carl