How to change the domain of a WordPress site

danhurley

I created an OpalStack "site" by mapping a temporary "development domain" to a WordPress application configured with the option to have the site and home URLs managed by the control panel left on. Works great.

At completion of dev/testing, I will need to change the domain to a "production domain". Is there a way to change the domain of an Opalstack WordPress site without surgery on the Maria DB?

sean

danhurley

Go to https://my.opalstack.com/apps/.
Click the Edit icon for your app in the lower half of the page.
Enable the "Manage Site URL" option for your WP app if it is not enabled already.
Go to https://my.opalstack.com/domains/.
Click the edit icon for your site in the lower half of that page.
Change the domains on the site over to the production domains.
Click the green "Update site" button to save your changes.

The WP site will be automatically configured with the correct domain, usually within a minute or so.

If you don't want to use the "Manage Site URL" feature in our dashboard then you can do it via Settings > General in your WP admin dashboard, or directly in the DB, or with the wp command-line tool like so...

cd ~/apps/name_of_app
wp option set home https://yourdomain.com
wp option set siteurl https://yourdomain.com

... then do steps 4-7 above to update the site.