Changing hosts

**sonicparke** · 21 Sep 2006, 06:39 PM

I'm changing host because my current host wil not support me.

I was about install ZC when I realized that it is listing the IP rather than domain name under the system setup page of the installer. I haven't changed name servers yet because I was wanting to get my new host setup first.

Can I change the http://my_ip, https://my-ip, etc. to http://mydomain, etc?

Even though DNS has not been change to reflect the new host?

Or should I leave it as the IP and install it anyway and change the domain name info later.

Or do I need to change the name servers first and install it once my domain has been moved to the new host?

Confused in OK.

Thanks.

**TinaS** · 21 Sep 2006, 08:55 PM

You can use your IP address in the configure files for set up and such and then change them to the domain name after propagation.

I do this a lot for clients who are installing new sites / carts.

Hope that helps.

**sonicparke** · 21 Sep 2006, 10:20 PM

OK. thanks. I just checked out the configure files and I see that stuff in there. Thanks.

**sonicparke** · 26 Sep 2006, 02:16 PM

So how do I get all my links to change from teh IP to the domain name? I've made the changes in configure.php but all the sidebox links are still pointing the IP.

**TinaS** · 26 Sep 2006, 02:47 PM

They shouldn't be ...

Unless you edited something weird. The links are built dynamically based upon your configure files so they should fix when you fix the configure files

**sonicparke** · 26 Sep 2006, 02:55 PM

I was missing the second configure.php in public_html/includes.

I just found it and it works now.

Thanks!

**TinaS** · 26 Sep 2006, 03:07 PM

Glad you got it hun! Let us know if you have any more questions.

And thanks for posting what worked for you - it is always nice because then there is more of a likelihood that someone with your same problem will find the post and the answer