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How to change the primary domain of the new siteground?

In the new version Change the primary domain name in the siteground , is a relatively easy operation. The siteground will automatically use the new domain name to complete the replacement of the virtual host. You only need to replace the domain name in the WordPress background.

After a friend used the old domain name to build a website, he completed the operation and sent some content. At this time, for some reasons, a new domain name needs to be changed, which involves the change primary domain setting of the siteground.

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1. Go to the WordPress management background, install the link replacement plug-in in the [Plug in], and replace the old domain name with the new domain name in batches. There are many similar plug-ins. Lao Wei introduced the following two, and you can choose one to use.

WordPress batch replacement url plug-in Velvet Blues Update URLs installation

Search&Replace Plug in WordPress Find and Replace Website Link

Remember that if the siteground uses cloudflare acceleration, the final destination domain name is the secondary domain name of the www prefix, which should also be replaced by the www domain name.

2. In Settings>General, modify the two old domain names on the right and replace them with new domain names.

3. If you have manually modified the domain name in WordPress or other places, you should also replace it.

Note: At this time, the foreground of the website cannot be opened, and the background cannot log in. It is normal. Don't panic. Let's continue the following operations.

4. Modify the DNS record of the new domain name to the siteground in advance. Reference: Alibaba Cloud/Xinnet/Tencent Cloud/Namesilo Domain Name Change Nameserver Record to Siteground Process Record

Click me to log in On the siteground website, go to [websites] as shown in the figure below>click the three vertical points on the right of the domain name>select change primary domain

Enter the new domain name, click confirm below to start the automatic replacement process, and wait.

Take a look at the following instructions. Except the one in the red box that reminds you to replace the domain name in the program, the others are automatically completed by the siteground system. It seems very simple. In fact, the red box in the screenshot below indicates the key point: if you have established a website in the old domain name, you need to reconfigure the program after changing the new domain name to conform to the new domain name.

The following is all the tips

Your old domain will automatically become parked domain for your site. It will be listed in your Site Tools > Domain > Parked Domains.
Your site backups will not be available for the new domain.
Your mailboxes will be automatically changed from email@old-domain.com to email@new-domain.com and messages sent to your old emails will bounce. You will have to reconfigure your email clients.
All your FTP accounts will be automatically renamed to use the new domain name.
If you have applications configured to use the old domain name (like WordPress, Magento, PrestaShop, etc.), you may need to re-configure them.
A new Let’s Encrypt SSL will be automatically issued for your new domain.
Your Cloudflare CDN will remain active on your old domain. You will need to get a new one for the new domain.
Your Weebly Sitebuilder will be automatically reconfigured to work with the new domain.

Lao Wei translated as follows:

The old domain name will automatically become a docking domain name. It will be listed in Site Tools>Domain>Parked Domains. See how to operate it below;
Site backup will not be available for the new domain name. So if you are worried about making mistakes, you should back them up in advance, just in case;
The mailbox will automatically be email@old-domain.com Change to email@new-domain.com , messages sent to old e-mail messages will jump. Also reconfigure your email client.
All ftp accounts will be automatically renamed to use the new domain name. Remember to update ftp software;
If the application is configured to use old domain names (such as wordpress, magento, prestashop, etc.), you need to reconfigure them. Let's see how to operate;
The "Let's Encrypt" SSL certificate will be automatically issued for the new domain. See how to operate below;
CloudFlare CDN will remain active on the old domain name. You need to get a new CloudFlare acceleration for the new domain name. See how to operate below;
Weebly Sitebuilder will be automatically reconfigured to use the new domain.

How to operate it? Then look down.

5. After the new domain name is replaced, during this waiting time, the options seen in the background of logging in to the siteground are not normal, click DASHBOARD did not respond Don't rush to think that the system is wrong or your operation is wrong, just wait patiently. Old Wei waited here for more than 20 minutes before the background of the new domain name could see the correct options.

6. After the management background of the new domain name is normal, the old Wei needs to modify two places as follows:

A、 Open the background management panel of the siteground, enter [speed]>[cloudflare], enable the acceleration of the new domain name, refer to the method One click launch of Cloudflare CDN at Siteground and global acceleration Set parameters in step 6 of.

B、 Modify [security]>[ssl manager], select a new domain name, and [select SSL] select Let's Encrypt to activate the ssl certificate. Delete the old domain name below.

C、 Go to [domain]>[shared domains] to delete the old domain name.

Note: If you only delete the old domain name in ssl manager, it will appear later, so you should also delete the old domain name in the parked domains.

After the above steps, the main work has been completed. Note the text The order from one to four cannot be reversed It is troublesome to make a mistake. The rest of the finishing work is to open the new domain name to check the front page and back page of the website, and try to see if there is any problem. If you follow the above content, you can normally open the website to visit.

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