Today marked another milestone for our AppointFox plugin, yey we have successfully migrated our entire multisite to a new domain name today: AppointFox.com
Actually, we wanted to do this about 3-4 months ago but it never happens due to a mental block that holds us from executing the migration tasks. We keep thinking that migration is a complex and tedious task that will take a lot of our time. But it is not true, once we completed those tasks, we realized that it only takes 2-3 hours to do the entire migration tasks.
Below are the steps we took to migration our WordPress multisite to a new domain:
- Copy the entire website’s folder to a new folder
- Export the website’s database into a SQL file
- Replace all old domain in the SQL file to a new domain
- Create a new database and import the amended SQL file
- Update the WordPress config file (wp-config.php) with the newly created database and new domain
- Test
- Make permanent 301 using .htaccess in the old domain’s root folder to redirect all traffic to the new domain
That’s it, our new domain www.appointfox.com is live now.