Rename a URL of SharePoint 2007 (moss2007)

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Alexander Zoutenbier

Created on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 21:11

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Question: One of the customers asked my how to change a SharePoint 2007 (moss 2007) URL. Now they have http://moss2007/projects/site1 and they want to change this to http://moss2007/projects/site2.

There is no standard wizard in SharePoint 2007 to rename or change a Site Collection URL. If you want to change a URL you will need to have Administrator rights on SharePoint and have knowledge of stsadm.

This is the procedure to change or rename a URL of a site collection in SharePoint 2007

- Start Command Prompt (CMD) in administrator mode
- run the stsadm command: stsadm -o backup -url http://moss2007/projects/site1 -overwrite -filename backupsite1.dat
now wait.......... This site is very large (16GB) so i need to wait 1 hour.

Now you can delete the old URL.

- run the stsadm command: stsadm -o deletesite -url http://moss2007/projects/site1
now wait again......... depending on the size of your site it can take a couple of hours

Last task. Now you can restore the site to the new URL.

- stsadm -o restore -url http://moss2007/projects/site2 -filename backupsite1.dat
now wait again......... depending on the size of your site it can take a couple of hours

After this command you can view your site on the new URL