XF 2.3 Changing domains

[Senkusha]

I'm really not sure where this question goes, but I'm thinking about changing the domain my forum is living in from http://prismatica.animerpgs.com to https://www.animerpgs.com. (Currently I've got the www. redirected to prismatica., but I'd like to clean this up.

What's the easiest way to accomplish this migration and what do I need to do to update my licensing here?

 

[Chromaniac]

should be fairly simple imo. you would need to update your license from subdomain to domain. copy the entire folder structure to base domain. database probably wouldn't need to be migrated as it is the same domain but that depends upon how your hosting is setup. you would need to change the base URL in xenforo admin. and this should do the basic.

then you would need to do a find and replace on all existing link in posts to point to base domain. or you can just setup a redirection from subdomain to domain. apart from this, you would need to setup the domain on third party services like google search console and other places. i think this is the basic gist of it.

 

[Rene_V]

Is the change within the same host or are you changing hosts as well?

 

[Senkusha]

Same host.

 

[Ricsca]

Moving the forum from forums to xf will cause you to lose all indexing...
However, you need to create a 301 redirect (have chatgpt do it) in the hataccess file from the old URLs to the new URLs so you don't lose Google indexing.