# Changes to authentication and fastcgi settings incomplete on domain change

**Project:** Sites | **Board:** Live | **Votes:** 2
**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/2-site-level-requests/items/1266-changes-to-authentication-and-fastcgi-settings-incomplete-on-domain-change

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# Issue
When changing the domain e.g. from one subdomain (old_domain) to another (new_domain) applying the changes fails if basic authentication and FastCGI cache is set up. 

## Basic Authentication
Authentication of a site fails when changing its domain if a nginx basic auth had been set up via Manage->Authentication.

The renaming did successfully move all files from `/etc/nginx/ploi/old_domain/` to `/etc/nginx/ploi/new_domain/` but failed to apply the change to `/etc/nginx/ploi/new_domain/server/auth.conf`:

> auth_basic              "Authentication Required";
> auth_basic_user_file    "/home/site-user/old_domain/.htpasswd";

As this `auth_basic_user_file` does not exist anymore the access fails.

## FastCGI
In the nginx file `fastcgi-cache.conf` the domain is not changed as well:
> fastcgi_cache_path /etc/nginx/cache/old_domain levels=1:2 keys_zone=old_domain_without_dots:100m inactive=1440m;

Should change to 
> fastcgi_cache_path /etc/nginx/cache/new_domain levels=1:2 keys_zone=new_domain_without_dots:100m inactive=1440m;

The file `fastcgi-php-cache` wrongly stays like this:
> fastcgi_cache old_domain_without_dots;
> ...

And should change to this:
> fastcgi_cache new_domain_without_dots;
> ...