Hi, I use amember with a Vbulletin forum, the current forum is 3 years old and things have moved on so the name of the forum doesn't really reflect the content anymore. I am looking to move to a new more generic domainname, Has anyone done this? Is there any major issues? I'll need to get amember, vbulletin, clickbank, and paypal all working together by transferring the details from the current domain to the new one without breaking anything.... possible?
Expect 24-48 hours downtime as you copy over the content/databases and debug. Remember to reprotect the amember protected directories. The database info may need to get updated too. Often the new server will use a different database name. David
Thanks David, 1 final question... what will happen to the current subscriptions? If people are signed up to ForumA.com and I Rebrand as ForumB.com Obviously I'll do a redirect so the customers get directed to the new site But what happens to the monthly subscriptions? will they get applied to the new site? with 2500 members I don't want to mess that one up!
There can be issues with paypal subscriptions. When aMember redirect user for payment, it send additional parameter notify_url - URL of IPN script that should be notified when subscription details are changed. Paypal store that url in payment profile and unfortunately this url can't be changed. So, IPN messages for old subscriptions will be sent to old IPN url. To avoid this smal customization will be required. The main idea is to place simple script that will receive IPN messages on old url and send these messages to new url. So both domains must be online.