how-to change wikidot subdomain ?
hi all..
i have a little question here, i would like to change my subdomain url:
domain1.wikidot.com
to
domain2.wikidot.com
how can i do this if its possible ?
thanks
how-to change wikidot subdomain ?
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There are in the Site manager ( admin:manage) :
1. ) a brutal one - at the last menu point
Misc_action - Rename-site
But be careful - if there are some mebers they will get confused… which is the correct URL now?
2.) Clone pssibility at
Misc_action - Clone
clone your own existing site to a "new one" - but this copies only the first 100 pages…( a security issue) and not the members, the forum content and so on…
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instead of cloning, just rename the site to "domain2.wikidot.com, and then create a new site at the old location "domain1.wikidot.com" and make it automatically redirect to the new location, or put a link on the old domain homepage and say "this site has been moved"
for example:
redirect: http://btg.wikidot.com
or
message saying site has moved: http://battlefu.wikidot.com
but this copies only the first 100 pages…
Not quite true. If your site has over 100 pages, the clone operation will fail with this error:
Error
Please note:
Only sites with no more than 100 pages can be cloned
You have to delete pages until the page count dips below 100 for the clone operation to work. It would be nice if the clone operation would work with large sites in a way that we could pick and choose which pages/categories to clone, but that's a can of worms for another thread.
-Ed
The restriction of 100 pages was added to prevent copying of large sites. We do have a design for a per-category clone module, and you are invited to comment on that design, push for it, etc.
I think that the easiest way is to change the url, and then to make a redirect from the old one to the new one. This will take only 5 min, and it is done in 3 clicks. Cloning, IMHO, is not the best option here.
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Check out http://redirect-template.wikidot.com, which Kenneth Tsang put together.
A question occurred to me: When a redirect of a site is made, does that mean that all the pages of a site have their own redirects, or not? Meaning, if someone clicks to the old url link of some of my pages left somewhere at some other web sites, will he be lead to the page with a new name, or will he get the info this page does not exist?
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Check out the documentation for the redirect module, it should answer your question.
Thanks, Pieter, but I need this explained in a simple way. I just don't get all that stuff about mapping (whatever it is), sorry…
You should think of the users that are not versatile in that computer language. Maybe one littel simple explanation like: if you redirect like this, you will redirect not only your start page, but also all the pages of yout site. Where this can be canged with exact instruction of what one should do.
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Brunhilda: one point !
I don't know… the explanation for the redirect module seems pretty clear. Of course you need to know what a URL and what a redirect is.
Could you be more precise about what you don't understand on that page rather than dismissing all of it?
I know what url is (I guess), but I don't know what is mapping, and everything written in that part, is Chinese for me. Also, as I said, you should think of people who don't even know what URL is, because they also exist, and if I am not wrong, Wikidot's aim is to be as simple as possible so as many people as possible could use it.
I guess that this:
When the destination attribute is just an alphanumeric string, e.g. "start", the page which contains the Redirect module will automatically forward the browser to the wiki page called "start". If destination is the whole URL address (e.g. "http://slashdot.org"), the browser will be redirected to this external address.
means that if you put the redirect module on the start page, only start page will be redirected. Meaning, you will make a simple redirect page.
I suspect that the following part, Mapping, has to be about redirecting ALL pages of a site, but I am not sure. Also, I am not sure what I should do in order to do this, i.e. make redirect for all pages of a site…
What does this mean?
http://your-wiki.wikidot.com/redir/mapped-path —> http://www.example.com/base/mapped-path
Does this mean:
http://your-wiki.wikidot.com/page-name —> http://www.example.com/page-name
What does mapped-path mean? Does that mean I have to write there the name of my page, or just leave this "mapped-path"?
What is the difference between
/mapped-path and /mapped-path/file1.html
Does this make a general redirect for all site pages, or at least, categories, or I would have to make redirect pages manually for each page? Does this mapping have something to do with automatic redirecting?
Hope this helps…
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