How to move your Drupal 7 site to a different folder on your domain...

So you want to move your Ubuntu 12.04 Drupal 7 installation from foo.com/testing to foo.com/production huh?

So much incomplete information out there, and people scratching their heads. This is how its done:


On Debian Wheezy where Drupal was obtained/installed using wget/dpkg:

1. Go to /var/www and rename the Drupal folder:

mv oldfolder newfolder

2. Go to /usr/share/drupal7/.htaccess and set/change the rewritebase rule to:

RewriteBase /newfolder

All done!


On Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS where Drupal was installed via apt-get:

1. Open /usr/share/drupal7/sites/default/settings.php and set:

$base_url = "http://www.foo.com/newfolder";

2. Go to /usr/share/drupal7/.htaccess and set/change the rewritebase rule to:

RewriteBase /newfolder

3. Go to etc/apache2/mods-enabled/drupal.conf and empty it (or just change it with lines from step 4 if thats your preference)

4. Uncomment and add the following lines to /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

#Alias /newfolder /usr/share/drupal7
#
#<Directory /usr/share/drupal7/>
# Options +FollowSymLinks
# AllowOverride All
# order allow,deny
# allow from all
#</Directory>

5. Restart Apache:
sudo service apache2 restart

All done!

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