How can I change the domain of my AMP site to another

Questions
1

Hi

Is there any guidance on how I can transfer my AMP from one server to another?

I apologise is this is something not managed by AMP, I honestly forgot the setup process.

In my example, I have name cheap which is my domain provider, converting my AMP IP to domain1

domain1 is now expiring and I’ll buy domain2

How can I transfer my AMP from domain1 to domain2?

Many thanks

2

Do you want to move your entire AMP instance to a new Server, or do you just want to change your Domain, but stay on the same server? quite hard to follow.

3

Sorry!

Same server, just changing the website domain to access it.

4

Normaly AMP creates an nginx-config during setup, with your desired domain. You should be able to locate that nginx-config at /etc/nginx/sites-available/ or /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

If you find the config there, open it and change the server name to your new domain e.g.

server_name your-old-domain.com; → server_name your-new-domain.com;

After that, restart nginx sudo service nginx restart

Of course, you will also need to create a new A-Record, in the DNS-Console of your new domain, to point towards your servers ip. I assume you have already done that for your old domain.

5

Thank you so much for this!
Following your response and a bit of toying, I managed to get it working.
For anyone else in the same boat as me, this is how I solved it.

1. Locate the nginx configuration

  • AMP’s nginx config was in /etc/nginx/conf.d/panel.<old-domain>.conf

2. Update the domain in the config

sudo nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/panel.<old-domain>.conf
  • Changed all instances of <old-domain> to <new-domain>

3. Rename the config file to match the new domain

sudo mv /etc/nginx/conf.d/panel.<old-domain>.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/panel.<new-domain>.conf

4. Test and restart nginx

sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl restart nginx

5. Update DNS Records on your domain provider

  • Added A Record: @ → <your-server-ip>
  • Added A Record: panel → <your-server-ip>

6. Obtaine SSL Certificate

sudo certbot --nginx -d panel.<new-domain> -d <new-domain>

7. Fix certbot creating conflicting config (Important!)

sudo rm /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
sudo systemctl restart nginx

Many thanks