Changing Site Collection URL

There are no out-of-the-box command in SharePoint to rename a site collection URL, to change the URL we need to recreate the site collection with new URL and restore the previous site collection

Source site Collection URl : http://sharepointdev/sites/Mritunjay

Source site Collection URl : http://sharepointdev/sites/mritunjay

Steps to Change the site collection URL

1. stsadm –o backup –url http://sharepointdev/sites/Mritunjay -filename backup.dat
2. stsadm –o deletesite –url http://sharepointdev/sites/Mritunjay
3. stsadm –o restore –url http://sharepointdev/sites/mritunjay -filename backup.dat