How to move a moodle site

How to move a moodle site

by Michael Knichel -
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I currently server my moodle site from ~/public_html/someSite/myMoodleSite

I use https://www.server.com/myMoodleSite

I wish to move it to its own subdir of public_html like ~/public_html/myMoodleSite

I want to use https://myMoodleSite.server.com instead.

Having my moodle site be a sub-dir of my main site is problematic when using git.  It would be better to serve it from its own sub-dir of public_html.

My question is what do I need to change after i copy/move the files to the new location on the server?  I changed config.php so $CFG->wwwroot reflected the new url

The moodle data is still in the same location and an absolute path & the db info is not changing.


MK

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Re: How to move a moodle site

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Is Git the only reason for this site URL change? The prescribed solution is to leave everything as it were and change the web root, aka DokumentRoot, to your public_html/whateverthemoodledir.
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Re: How to move a moodle site

by Ken Task -
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Git acquired code has to be run from the code directory and is basically a 'pull' (new code/changes/etc) come from repos to directory - no moving parts) so am kinda surprised that's the issue. 

Issues might arise with location IF a WordPress is at document root for the domain - .htaccess files with rules for WP?

Mr. V is right, however, path of least resistance is to change document root for the FQDN in web service config, but before you that, check config.php file of moodlecode ... if it has https://site/somesub you'll not only have to change that to https://site but also run search and replace on the DB for internal links your Moodle has already recorded in DB rows.

https://docs.moodle.org/310/en/Search_and_replace_tool

'SoS', Ken

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Re: How to move a moodle site

by Michael Knichel -
Thanks Ken. I got it straightened out. I did move it to its own directory and did change the config.php file to reflect the new directory. It is all good now.
I am a git noob so having the dirs separated is good in my mind. They are sort of unrelated sites anyway.

MK
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