Change my site URL

I've purchased a licence and have been developing a Dolphin site (which hasn't yet gone live) on an URL that I now want to change. Can anyone let me know the steps I'd need to move my site and my licence to a new URL?

not too difficult.

You will need access to all files and phpmyadmin also for database.

First setup your new URL on server and create new database and db user, attach that user to DB. (note the db name, user name and password)

Then dload a backup of your current site sql database, zip the files for that site together as a backup.

Unzip the backup files into the NEW sites root folder (should have been created when you setup the URL on server)

Goto phpmyadmin, and open the NEW database. It should be completely empty of tables.

Import the BACKUP of the old sites database into the new one. (should have an import button in phpmyadmin when viewing the new database, most likely just use the default import settings). Let this run and it will refresh when complete and tell you its all done. You should then see the old tables, in the new DB

Then, in the new site files (where you unzipped all the old ones) goto inc/header.inc.php

you will see several changes to make

$site['url']   - needs to be set to your new URL path

$dir['root'] - needs to be set to your new files root

$db['user']  - new db user           

$db['passwd']  - new db pass     

$db['db']  - new db name

save this file. 

If it wont save, its because your inc permissions are set to 555, change them to 777, then save the file, then change back to 555

in files, clean out cache (leave htaccess or your site wont work), same with cache_public and tmp

goto the new site url and you should see the old site on the new url.

in admin, change the sites name, and any other ref you have to the old site.

may need to clear browser cache if its not all viewing properly, normally this should do it though.

as for license, in boonex account, reset the licence. Then in site admin enter that licence on new site. 

Hopefully not missed anything! 

That normally works just fine though.

If you have your site set up and just want to move the site to a new URL, you don't need to move the site files or create a new database.

Before I give you my input on changing the URL what webserver are you running, I am guessing Apache but it could be something else.  Are you on a dedicated?  How do you access the server? You will be creating a new vhost for the URL and setting the site root in the vhost to the current Dolphin install.  If you are using Plesk,I can not help you as I don't know Plesk