Self-hosted, moving from one Custom domain to another ... what's involved?

WriteFreely Instance Admins
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Hi all,

I just joined the Community here, but I’ve been self-hosting a personal write-freely blog for, IDK, 4-5 years or more.

I want to move to a new domain – nothing radical, I just want to get off of the “.com” tld I’m on now. I’m taking the opportunity to move the installation to a new server, while I’m at it. I see a lot of “moving from a hosted instance to my own custom domain” posts, but I can’t find anything quite like what I’m planning.

I’m running on Debian (bookworm) with Apache (no Docker for me), minimal tweaks to the blog’s appearance.

Is it as simple as doing a clean install on the new server, then copying over the db and config file, and then tweaking the config settings to reference the new domain? Or is this a more complicated endeavor? What-all additional info do you need from me to help answer the question?

Thanks in advance,
nattie

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Addendum … now I’m looking at the Import / Export functions – looks like they include everything (at least the json does), including view-history, creation/update dates, etc.

It looks like I can just literally create a new writefreely instance, under my new domain, and then import all of the content from my existing site.

Does this sound accurate?

What-if-any history, data, metadata, etc, might I lose this way?

Danke, y gracias
n