sabaroth Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 At the moment I have a webshop, say webshop1 it runs on paid hosting and domainname is registered on their name. I made a new one in prestashop 1.5.2 on my own hosting temporarily on a different domain, say this is webshop2 This one is almost finished so somewhere next week I want to replace webshop1 by webshop2 I figured this is the way to go: 1 I register the domain from webshop1 and ask authorisationcode with the old hoster (they know I am gonna move and will agree) 2 Login the new webshop which is still on wrong domain (webshop2) and change the domainnames in preferences-seo&url--shopdomain and SSL-domain in the right domainname 3 Login at my hosting and change the domainname from the current(wrong) one to the new right one 4 When dns is resolved the new webshop should be up and running on the right domain.(and change all emailadresses to the right, new one) That's it or something will go terribly wrong this way? Needs to go right at once since this webshop makes lots of orders and would,t want it to go offline for some reason. Any comments are highly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellini13 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Your plan looks fine to me, I would suggest adding a step to disable the old shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaroth Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 Hi bellini, don't think that's really necesary, dns will take about a day to resolve so in this period people will enter either the old or the new shop, both is fine by me. After dns is resolved completely I will tell hoster from old shop he can throw it away I guess :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellini13 Posted February 23, 2013 Share Posted February 23, 2013 Where you might not care if a customer is flipped between old and new sites, I think most people would prefer only to send visitors to the new site once the changes are made. How will you handle customers that visit the old site, make changes (orders, new registrations, password changes, etc..). Are you doing a post migration of this information? This will also benefit other people reading your post and taking it as advice, it's best practice to disable the old store so you can avoid a post migration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaroth Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 Ah Ok that I hadn't considered yet, customer makes order in old one for example, I can only reach the new one. Guess i will manually transfer that to the new one then I guess, Good point, Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabaroth Posted February 23, 2013 Author Share Posted February 23, 2013 Or will ask old host to disable shop as soon as migration has been set in motion, yes maybe better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellini13 Posted February 24, 2013 Share Posted February 24, 2013 in the back office in the Preferences section, you can disable the shop. this will display an offline/maintenance page to the customer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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