I paid an agency to create my website, but they are no longer in business and don't offer anymore support.
As I know nothing about Umbraco, I'm hoping someone can assist me.
My present website, for instance "www.a.com," is about the product "a." Using the same CMS, I want to switch all the content to product "b" and change the domain to "www.b.com."
Could someone please explain to me what do I need to do to change the domain name?
Is it just updating the DNS A record of "www.b.com" to point to the current hosting IP?
The DNS update will point the URL to the server, but before you do that you will probably need to bind the new URL to your site on the server so the server knows what to do with that domain. How you do this will depend on how it is hosted.
If it's on a windows server, you would need to go into IIS and find the site, and add the binding. https://www.ssl.com/how-to/binding-in-iis-10/
(Note that it's possible that the site is setup with a wildcard, and so everything pointed to this server goes to the one site. This would mean this step would not be needed).
If it's hosted in some other way, there's probably a different way you would need to do this step.
There may also be an Umbraco setting you may need to also update the site's "Culture and Hostname". This will tell Umbraco what the site URL should be so you'll want to check that it's not pointed to www.a.com. It's possible that this is not configured and so it should work without this step.
To set this up:
Go to the Umbraco Backoffice of the project.
Right-click the root content node.
Select Culture and Hostnames.
In the Culture and Hostnames window, click Add New Domain.
changing of domain name
Hi,
I paid an agency to create my website, but they are no longer in business and don't offer anymore support.
As I know nothing about Umbraco, I'm hoping someone can assist me.
My present website, for instance "www.a.com," is about the product "a." Using the same CMS, I want to switch all the content to product "b" and change the domain to "www.b.com."
Could someone please explain to me what do I need to do to change the domain name?
Is it just updating the DNS A record of "www.b.com" to point to the current hosting IP?
Appreciate any help. Thank you.
The DNS update will point the URL to the server, but before you do that you will probably need to bind the new URL to your site on the server so the server knows what to do with that domain. How you do this will depend on how it is hosted.
If it's on a windows server, you would need to go into IIS and find the site, and add the binding. https://www.ssl.com/how-to/binding-in-iis-10/ (Note that it's possible that the site is setup with a wildcard, and so everything pointed to this server goes to the one site. This would mean this step would not be needed).
If it's on Azure, you would need to go into the the portal and go into custom domains and add it there. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/app-service-web-tutorial-custom-domain?tabs=a%2Cazurecli
If it's hosted in some other way, there's probably a different way you would need to do this step.
There may also be an Umbraco setting you may need to also update the site's "Culture and Hostname". This will tell Umbraco what the site URL should be so you'll want to check that it's not pointed to www.a.com. It's possible that this is not configured and so it should work without this step. To set this up:
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