Renaming Sites after Environment Update

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I have updated the environment in local 2 times in the last week as prompted by local updates. For a single site, I now have 3 versions named “site”, “site Clone” and now “site Clone Clone”. How do I rename “site Clone Clone” back to “site”? I see the “Rename” function in the menu, but really want to know if it is safe to just change the name back to “site” without losing my data.

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@cwbuff,

Renaming the site in Local doesn’t change anything other than the name of the site in Local so it’s safe :slight_smile:.

If you wish to change the site path, you can either:

  1. Export and re-import the site to a different location
  2. Use the Volumes add-on to remap/relocate the site’s folders
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Which is the safest method?

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Option #1 is a lot more simple so it’s less prone to user error. Option #2 requires that you remap multiple paths and if you map one incorrectly it can be difficult to track down.

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Thanks that worked. But the Site Domain is still “site-clone-clone.local”

Can I simply click the “Change” link and change it to “site.local” without any problems?

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I built a test site to experiment with. I got every thing to work fine on it and on my main site. Thanks for the help, I’m good to go.

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Can you share your solution with the rest of us who are finding this thread with the same challenge? TIA.

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You can change the site domain by clicking on the site in Local and then clicking on “Change” beside the site domain.

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This will update the Local site’s domain and run a find and replace on the site’s database. Just be sure you’re not changing it to a domain you already have locally. :slight_smile: