Newby here, installed SMF on Domain worked great changed URL now broke

[seefriedm]

All
I installed SMF without any problems and it worked great. I changed the domain to another URL and it broke. Followed instructions on the site via search. Unable to run repair.php. I contacted GoDaddy and one of the Tech's got it working. Now all the other url's no longer redirect after changing the forwarding to the new url. I know there are some really sharp folks here and I want to learn but also need to get the site back up as its been unable to redirect from the original URL for 2 days. If someone would be able to help besides responding please message me. I am able to do a screenshare and show whats going on.

Mark

[Mstcool]

URL problems depends on your settings on your webhosts, not SMF itself.

Try running repair_settings.php one more time (or get the godaddy people to do it) and make sure all your paths are correct. As to url forwarding, that depends on your hosts, so ask them what happened. :p

[Topman]

You need to do ftp yourself, you cant keep relying on godaddy.
https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5120/redirect-urls-with-your-hosting-account
or:

Use Fileziller its free to download.

To re direct use a .htaccess file.
Create it in notepad.
to re direct  an old domain to a new domain

If you had an old domain such as example.com, and now you decided you actually want to use example.net for the website. You could setup a 301 redirect for the entire domain, so that old links to example.com carry over.

Code in the example.com domain's .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301,NC]

Save it as a text document.
Upload using ftp with fileziller
Re name it .htaccess.php