Answers.Body: <p>Aside from any customizations, you should:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Check your civicrm.settings.php file to fix the base URL.  (And double-check that your path hasn't changed).</p></li>
  <li><p>Go to Administer - System Settings - Clear Caches and Update Paths and clear your caches and update your paths.</p></li>
  <li><p>Confirm that the Resource URLs look right (they should be fine as a result of step 2).</p></li>
  <li><p>Make sure you get a SSL certificate for your new domain name if you had one for your old domain name.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
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Answers.Text: It probably goes without saying, but also make sure to forward any traffic from the long URL to the new URL.
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Answers.Body: <p>In addition to Andrew's answer, be aware that this may break your IPNs.  See <a href="https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/473/how-to-change-paypal-ipn-url-when-migrating-civicrm-onto-a-new-domain">here</a> for how to mitigate this.</p>
  
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Body: <p>We are considering to change our domain name from:</p>
  
  <p><strong>reallylongandnotuserfriendly.example.com</strong></p>
  
  <p>to:</p>
  
  <p><strong>you.example.com</strong></p>
  
  <p>We have a Drupal 7 site. What are the consequences / fixes we need to be aware of, to not harm our CiviCRM installation?</p>
  
Tags: <drupal>
Title: Consequences of changing domain name
ThreadText: # Consequences of changing domain name
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-10-20)
  
  We are considering to change our domain name from:
  
  **reallylongandnotuserfriendly.example.com**
  
  to:
  
  **you.example.com**
  
  We have a Drupal 7 site. What are the consequences / fixes we need to be aware of, to not harm our CiviCRM installation?
  
  **Tags:** drupal
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-10-20. Score: 4
  
  Aside from any customizations, you should:
  
  1. Check your civicrm.settings.php file to fix the base URL. (And double-check that your path hasn't changed).
  2. Go to Administer - System Settings - Clear Caches and Update Paths and clear your caches and update your paths.
  3. Confirm that the Resource URLs look right (they should be fine as a result of step 2).
  4. Make sure you get a SSL certificate for your new domain name if you had one for your old domain name.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: It probably goes without saying, but also make sure to forward any traffic from the long URL to the new URL.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-10-20. Score: 3
  
  In addition to Andrew's answer, be aware that this may break your IPNs. See [here](https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/473/how-to-change-paypal-ipn-url-when-migrating-civicrm-onto-a-new-domain) for how to mitigate this.
  
  
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