Ok, I have nearly completed my latest site on the temporary domain where I keep the test site parked. I am almost ready to go live with the site on it's actual domain, and need to change the references to all of the pages and files on the site. Does anyone know a simple way to do this instead of renaming each and every file manually?

I need to change everything in the site from the following:

http://www.dakotapugs.com/beta/SDSRT/

to

http://www.sdsrt.org/

Any pointers/suggestions/comments? Thanks!

Todd

Hi Todd, you're in the same boat I'm in.
I haven't come up with any conclusion, but go through each page and change the address.
My current customer already had a site up and running, so I couldn't use the actual address during development and testing.
It's a pain, but I do not know any other way to do it.

You in SD? Where? I'm in Yankton - waiting for the flood waters to rise . . .

Rodg:

When I used to use Adobe Go-Live, there was a wizard in there that would change all references from this to that pretty easily. But with CC, all I am able to do now is paste http://www.sdsrt.org/ over http://www.dakotapugs.com/beta/SDSRT/. It works, but it is tedious, and there is always the chance of overlooking something.

Small world...I am in Chamberlain and also watching the waters rise. Spent Memorial Day in Pierre helping some friends evacuate and sandbag their home. It's only going to get worse after today!

Be well and stay high and dry...

Todd

If the Corp's predicted flood map is even close to actual, I'll be 1/4 mile from the water - I'm a little over a mile from it now.
We're hitting 100,000 CFS tomorrow (Saturday) then 140,000 by mid-week, 150,000 by June 14th.
Scary, that the people in charge (of our safety) decided now is the time to flood people, instead of doing a slow release a lot earlier then now. No, now we'll put people in a panic mode, so that they'll need to reach out to our great government for assistance, then the government can own their souls - no conspiracy theory here

Remember a few years back when the reservoirs were so low the "experts" were saying we wouldn't see them filled in out life time?

Almost any text editor (which I also added in the suggestion post on this) has the ability to find and replace lines, words, paragraphs, you name it within documents.

Being that you are using VSD this is a bit of a problem but... the problem lies in that you are addressing your links incorrectly from the start. As I believe Tom mentioned in the suggestion thread, you should be using relative links rather than full complete ones so when you decide to change your links you need to do it this way and when you decide to make new sites follow this also to save you this headache:

CHANGE:

http:/ /mysiteaddress.com/page.html
or
http:/ /mysiteaddress.com/folder/page.html

or any other combo that is including the full domain name in it

TO:

/page.html
or
/folder/page.html

This method will tell the first one to reference the page if it is in the root directory of the site and the second one will reference it when its in a different folder (such as images or extra things you don't want in the root directory).

This is the preferred method for links and the best way around them when using test sites. Just be sure to reference all directories (folders) exactly the same way on the test server (in most cases people just copy it and move it or upload it to the new place etc. so it does stay structurally the same).

Problem solved, but unfortunately you have some manual changes to do, and hopefully you'll do it the correct way in the future

Silly me. That's what I get for posting questions before my morning dose of caffeine. What I meant to refer to was making changes to the other apps I use along with VSD...particularly Flash Menu Builder. The page references within VSD are all relative links, with the exception of a few external links. My concern was with FMB so that all of those links worked once I switched to the live domain. HTML Editor's "Replace" function works great for that!

Thank you for your help - it's all good to know!

Todd