Moving Site And Changing Domain - Odd Situation

HI,

We have a weird situation, we are a long time photocart user and have photocart registered to eleakis.com (hosted at Total Choice Hosting). A couple of years ago we moved our website to photobiz, so now photobiz hosts our public site ... eleakis.com.... and Total Choice Hosting still hosts our photocart site. So if someone types in eleakis.com/photocart up comes photocart, if they type in eleakis.com up comes the photobiz hosted site. We accomplished this by changing the domain zome records for site.eleakis.com and www.site.eleakis.com to the ip address of photobiz and by having an index.html in the root of the Total Choice Hosting server that acts to do I think it is called page fowarding. This way we could keep our photocart running and get our web site set up easily ....

We upgraded to Sytist a few weeks ago, purchased room on Total Choice Hosting for the domain EandEphotocart.com and installed Sytist there. We were going to phase out photocart, this way we wouldn't have to do the fancy domain fowarding and the search engines might have an easier time and such.

Well we love Sytist and after testing and playing with setup we feel confident in using Sytist for everything under the domain eleakis.com. This means we would need to move the domain registration for our Sytist from EandEphotocart.com to eleakis.com.

Of course we want to keep photobiz up and running until Sytist is ready to go public for our web pages. I am guessing the best workflow would be ...

- Move Sytist instalation to the eleakis.com server (eleakis.com from scratch or move it? have done some setup but could redo ...)
- Update Sytist registration to eleakis.com
- Keep page fowarding going until Sytist is ready for the public and keep the site status as closed.
- Close photobiz and open Sytist
- Remove domain zone edits pointing to photobiz's ip address and close photobiz.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thank you very much!
Roger

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Is EandEphotocart.com an add-on domain on your hosting with Total Choice Hosting? And if so, if you FTP to the server, do you see a folder for EandEphotocart.com?

If so, it will be pretty easy. Once you get Sytist ready, you can select and drag your Sytist files from that EandEphotocart.com domain folder into the root folder (or if there is a folder eleakis.com) through your FTP program. Then get rid of the index.html which directs site.eleakis.com and that's pretty much it.

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It is not an add on domain. Total Choice Hosting does not allow that without paying more, the accounts / domains are even on different servers. Regardless, I don't intend to renew the EandEphotocart domain as this was the only reason we got it.

Edited Mon Jul 31, 17 10:52 AM by Roger Ele

Then you will have to move the Sytist installation following these directions:
https://www.picturespro.com/sytist-manual/installation/moving-sytist-from-one-host-to-another/

Or you could re-install from scratch. If you do, you will need to email me your Sytist registration key so I can reset it.

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