Migrating to a new domain

[brenton.strine]

I’m about to migrate to a new domain on a complicated website with many users, photos, files, etc.

I was reading in this forum on some old threads that files can break after a domain switch and that a workflow to rename files was needed. Is that still true?

What other things will I need to do to complete the migration?

There main thing I can think of is anything that has the domain hardcoded in it. I was thinking I would check this by downloading the JSON copy of my site and then searching for the old domain. What might this effort not catch?

[ntabs]

Interesting topic @brenton.strine I didn’t know that switching to a new domain will damage your files. I think this doesn’t happen if your database is on a different platform though.

Could you share links of these old threads that you mentioned? Thanks

[brenton.strine]

@ntabs

Could you share links of these old threads that you mentioned? Thanks

This one was the main one that was concerning:

What happens to data once i change domain?

Hi, I am running a live site named xyz.com from a few weeks and have multiple data on it. Now i want to change its name to abc.com. what will happen to my live data once i do so. how can i shift my overall data to new name domain?

Here are some quotes from the replies that worried me:

@philip

Once this happens, all private files, images, audio etc that have been uploaded to your system will break.

@philip

I am saying that if you marked those files “Private” in Bubble within your upload workflows, you will want to rename those files or else they will not be accessible.

Also saw a few examples of people having other problems, though it seemed most of those came down to a hardcoded URL.