Moving site to public_html

[EssickAir]

So here is the set up. We started developing a new a site on a web server. The domain was dev.test.com for example. Well so that was set up on a different directory than "public_html". I'm running a multi-site tool where we are pointing a bunch of domains to that folder. But now we're trying to move the primary domain over, and it apparently has to point to "public_html" so how would one go about moving a processwire site to a different folder without killing the entire thing? 

[wbmnfktr]

ProcessWire doesn't care what the folder is called it lives in.

I could be just /var/www/ or /public_html/ or /home/user/_client/domain.tld/.

There are a few things you really need to take care of:

• $config->httpHosts
• $config->db* and the whole database setup of course
• file/folder permissions https://processwire.com/docs/security/file-permissions/
• take care of all .htaccess files, especially in the root

You could just move all files by hand or use either ProcessExportProfile or Duplicator.
Some even just use Git to move a ProcessWire instance around.

 

It get's a bit more complicated in case you want to run ProcessWire inside a subfolder of another project. But there are different threads about this here in the forum.