RE: Change of Top Level site

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Hi Matthias
well I'm not aware of an easy way to do this through the central admin, sure
you can define the managed paths so that you might want to create your sites
under a url called "division" perhaps instead of sites but once you've
defined the site url then I think you are stuck with it. What I would do is;
Use Stsadm -o backup -url http://servername/sites/sitename - file
c:\backup\abc.dat
then delete the site
Then create a new site with the url you do want i.e
http://servername/sites/newname
then run
stsadm -o restore -url http://servername/sites/newname -file
c:\backup\abc.dat -overwrite
ok its a pain if the site is large but it does work and it retains the
permissions.
Mike

"Matthias" wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> during the installation of WSS you can define a URL for the Top Level site
> (e.g. "/abc"). After Installation is completed now i want to change this
> setting in the Sharepoint central administration, but i cant find it.
>
> Can i change this setting or is the only possibility to delete this site and
> create a new one ???
>
> thx for help,
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
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