Changing Domain Name

If you are moving WebriQshops to a different domain name, or switching from server pathways to your domain name, then you must update WebriQshops with the new domain name.

Move site from a sub-directory
Move to another hosting

Move site from a sub-directory

No need to change configuration file. Change Store URL setting to have correct URL in Admin->System->Settings->Details. If you put any full paths in any of your HTML blocks or content you will need to change this. Also if you changed .htaccess, you will need to change it

Move to another hosting

  • 1

    Install new WebriQshops

    Install new WebriQshops with normal process on the new host (do not load demo data)
    NOTE: You need to select the same MySQL database prefix as on your current WebriQshops instance. How do I find the database prefix for my sql database? Log in to the WebriQshops backend, go to System-Data-Backup/Restore section. Another way is using a Database Interface (Requires Access to the Database, e.g. phpMyAdmin for MySQL)
  • 2

    Backup WebriQshops

    On existing WebriQshops instance, do backup of database, code and resource library (do not include config)
  • 3

    Download backup

    Download backup in the backup history
  • 4

    Load backup to newly installed WebriQshops.

    To unpack a tar.gz file (A tarball 'tar.gz file' is nothing but compressed tar archive) extract backup.tar.gz then extract backup.tar
  • 5

    Replace salt key

    You will need to replace salt key from your original installation into new configuration file. It is in system/config.php file