: How to safely replace live site (without database) with staging site using Apache shared hosting? I have a PHP website of around 20 pages without a database on shared hosting - it has quite

@LarsenBagley505

Copying the site from one folder to the next is a good start.

Next if you use a content management system, check any configuration files that contain path names (or folder names) and update them to match the correct path names for the new domain you move your site to.

If you written code manually, after copying it over check all links in the code itself to make sure they point to the correct URLs on the new domain.

For example, if you have code that contained:

<a href="http://old.com/123">


You would change it to something like:

<a href="http://new.com/123">


Except you replace old.com and new.com with the correct old domain name and new domain name respectively.

Then clear the cache in your browser and test everything on the new URL and watch the address bar of your browser as you test to make sure the old domain does not reappear again.

When that's all done, then on the old domain, set up .htaccess so that any request to any old URL is redirected to the new URL.

These lines places in .htaccess should help provided your server is apache with mod_rewrite module installed and active.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]

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