Moving ModX Revo from a sub folder to root

Quick tip here in case anyone is Googling how to move ModX install from a sub folder into the root.

I spent at least 2 /3 hours trying to move the site via Dreamweaver by copying and pasting the files into the root.
As it was taking too long I then tried using the FileManager on my hosting control panel. That flaked out a few times and proved unreliable. I then tried FileZilla which was a bit of a gamble as it won’t copy files only move them. Luckily and strangely enough moving the files to the root took only minutes with FileZilla. I then downloaded the config file, tweaked the paths where necessary and reuploaded.
I then ran setup again and chose ’upgrade’. Anyway, it worked perfectly.

Might be a good approach for somoeone else out there.

It’s not that difficult. It’s in the config php-file. You have to alter the url’s to new paths!

I think it’s the whole moving files I find really slow. I don’t have a very fast net connection so the whole process can take a few hours to download everything to the local server and then upload to the new root.

At leastm thats how I’ve been doing it but maybe I could just do a fresh install on the root, re-download any packages and then upload my images.
Would that work too alongside the config change?

Don’t you have a FTP-account or something?! If you can move with FTP or webinterface (cpanel, webmin..) so you don’t have down- and upload everything! Ask the hostingprovider if it’s not possible to manually mv the hole bung! OR!!! Maybe .htaccess files can do the trick if you are running on apache.