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Change your URL

Filed Under: Symphony

April 17, 2007

When you're installing Symphony for the first time, you have to tell it what URL you're going to be using to access the site. They strongly encourage you to NOT change it once it's decided on, but I had to change it today. You see, the site that I built is very lacking on the backend features, and I wanted to use Symphony on the main site. It's not easy, but it is pretty simple, as far as I can tell.

Step 1: Move the files

The only thing you really need to do is access your server, either via ftp or a shell, like I prefer. Then move the directory where you installed Symphony to the new directory. I wanted to save my old files, so I put them in an archive directory.

$ mv zastica.com archive/zastica.com $ mv symphony.zastica.com zastica.com

Step 2: Change the settings

Symphony will fail if you do only that because it requires a number of files based off of the setting you gave it when you first installed Symphony. Luckily, those settings are in one place—manifest/config.php—and they're the first two lines of code. All you have to do is change the paths to match what they are going to be now.

$ pico mainfest/config.php

This is what that looks like:

<?php define('DOCROOT', '/home/****/symphony.zastica.com'); define('DOMAIN', 'symphony.zastica.com'); . . .

All I needed to do was change symphony.zastica.com to zastica.com in the first case, and www.zastica.com in the second. Voila!

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8 Comments

David 26 Apr 07 at 4:25am: This is a useful little "how-to"! There could well be some merit in including it in the Symphony wiki. I have just started trialling Symphony myself, and the question about how easy or viable this procedure was had already crossed my mind!

Dave 26 Apr 07 at 11:30am: Thanks, David. I've noticed the Symphony wiki is lacking in a number of areas, so I'm doing my best to record all the modifications I make.

dale 24 May 07 at 11:03pm

nice. right now i have my symphony also in a subdomain. this will save me many headaches once i launch mine.

thanks.

Dave 25 May 07 at 9:22am: I'm happy to hear that this is helpful. It's difficult to prototype symphony additions as it has no sandbox.

daniel 4 Jun 08 at 1:35pm: one thing you forgot to mention is to also edit the .htaccess file… in there there are references that point to the name of the base folder and also need editing

Dave 4 Jun 08 at 1:59pm

Daniel –

Thanks for the heads up, but you would only need to do that if you were changing Symphony to run off a different folder, rather than just domain. (Since the default RewriteBase is '/', zastica.com is the same as symphony.zastica.com where that is concerned.)

~dave

truns 22 Jul 08 at 8:31pm: hai all how it to Installations symphony? can you help my? and do you have tutorial symphony, thank's you if you can help my

Dave 23 Jul 08 at 10:28am: Truns – I'd suggest that you check out overture21.com to learn more about installing symphony, and many other symphony topics.