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06.04.2008 at 11:34PM PDT, ID: 23459249
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Renaming site collection URL in WSS 3.0

Asked by warwolfra in MOSS-Sharepoint

Tags: Microsoft, Sharepoint Services 3.0, 3.0 SP1

I am running WSS 3.0 on Server 2k3 with SQL 2k5 on the same machine. We only have 1 site and it's currently titled http://sharepoint. We need to change this to http://companyweb.

I tried using the stsadm renamesite option in SP1, but apparently we are on a path-based site and that didn't work. I also tried doing an stsadm backup of http://sharepoint, deleting the http://sharepoint site, and then restoring the backup to http://compnayweb (as I found as a posed solution in my web searching), and this failed with the error:
"The Web application at http://companyweb could not be found. Verify that you have typed the URL correctly. If the URL should be serving existing content, the system administrator may need to add a new request URL mapping to the intended application"
So i restored to the original http://sharepoint url and it's back to normal.

This site is in use with a fair amount of data attached to it already, so starting from scratch isn't an option.

What am I missing?

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Zone: MOSS-Sharepoint
Tags: Microsoft, Sharepoint Services 3.0, 3.0 SP1
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