How do I change the base URL to use a more user-friendly domain?

Question

I want to change my domain name from reallylongandnotuserfriendly.example.com to you.example.com.

Is there a setting that could expose these change to the public, without actually changing the real domain name?

Answer 1

You could create a Drupal alias as follows:

1. In the sites directory, find and rename the example.sites.php file to sites.php

2. Add the following line

   $sites['you.example.com'] = 'name_of_the_directory_where_your_settings.php_is';
   

In your case, the settings.php file is likely to be inside sites in a directory called reallylongandnotuserfriendly.example.com, which means the line would be:

$site['you.example.com'] = 'reallylongandnotuserfriendly.example.com';

Just be sure that you configure your server to point you.example.com to your base Drupal installation.

Answer 2

1. Open the setting.php file
2. Find $base_url in that file
3. Change the value of $base_url

change the file permissions for that file, since by default it is a read-only file.