move / migrate

How to move a concrete5 website from a subdirectory to the root directory of your webserver?

If you want to move your concrete5's website from one server (eg localhost) to another server, please see the official documentation:

Now, considering you just want to move your website from a subdirectory to the root directory (or the reverse), here is a small doc

For instance, you want to move your website from

 https://YourwebSite/PreviousSubDirectory

 https://YourwebSite/

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First, upgrade your website if required
Log as an admin in your website:

 https://YourwebSite/PreviousSubDirectory/index.php/login

Clear the cache from the dashboard
Put your website in maintenance
If you don't have a recent one, MAKE A COMPLETE BACKUP (website + database)
Go to your system files (FTP or SSH)
Move ALL the files from the subdirectory to the root directory
fix the permissions by running this command

 chmod -R 777 packages application/config/ application/files/ application/languages

.htaccess

if you have any, edit your .htaccess file:

replace

RewriteBase /PreviousSubDirectory/

with

 RewriteBase /

Log in as an admin in your moved website, https://YourwebSite/index.php/login
De-activate the maintenance

https://YourwebSite/index.php/dashboard/system/permissions/maintenance

* Done!

Deadlinks

After that, you may check your website, mostly dead links with a tool like linkchecker; a dirty solution would be to make a rewriteRule redirecting your old /PreviousSubDirectory/ to the root directory