Edit the domain name of a Joomla site

This guide explains how to change the URL of your website from the Joomla app installed on your Web hosting Infomaniak (only in case you installed Joomla via the dedicated tools offered by Infomaniak).

Prerequisites

• The domain name you wish to use must be in advance added in alias of the main domainon the site concerned.

Edit Joomla domain name

To change the address of the site created with Joomla, for another domain name that already appears in the same Organization:

1. Click here to access the management of your site on the Manager Infomaniak (Need help?).
2. Click directly on the nameallocated to the product concerned:
   
3. Click on the action menu ⋮ located to the right of the relevant Web Application.
4. Click on Parameters of the application:
   
5. Click on Edit To the right of the Joomla:
   
6. Under Site URL, select the desired web address from the drop-down menu:
   1. If you have not followed the above prerequisites, the desired field will not appear even if it is registered in the same Organization.
   2. If you have added the domain as alias of the site, the desired domain will appear and you will be able to select so that it replaces the previous domain.
7. Click on the button Save:
   

Domain ....preview.infomaniak.website ?

Among the URLs in the drop-down menu, preview URL allows access to your Joomla site in case the site's domain name is not yet properly configured to point to your app.

Change address or location of Joomla

To modify the installation of Joomla if it was made in a subfolder:

and that the latter is visible in the site address at each consultation:

Here's how to do it:

1. Connect via FTP (aid) and trace to the root (in the target folder of the website) all the files of your Joomla currently installed in a subfolder (folder /primary in the example below:
   
2. Delete the empty subfolder.
3. Edit File .htaccess which is at the root of the tree your Joomla.
4. Replace RewriteBase /primary by RewriteBase /:
   
5. Save the changes.
6. Don't uninstall the Joomla Web Application but simply don't use it anymore and connect directly to the management interface of your Joomla via URL /administrator: