# Move from another site

Bring an existing website to Page Lemon: publish the files you have, or ask your AI to rebuild the site, then point your domain at it. Keep the old site running until the new one is live.

## Say this to your AI

If you have the website's files (HTML, CSS, images), open them in a code tool such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, or attach them in your chat, and say:

```prompt
Launch my site on PageLemon.com
```

If you can't download your old site, ask your AI to rebuild it from the live pages:

```prompt
Rebuild my website www.maisoncafe.co.uk with the same pages and text, and launch it on pagelemon.com
```

## What happens

1. Your AI publishes the site and gives you a `pagelemon.dev` link. Your old site and domain aren't touched yet.
2. Check the new site page by page. Ask for any changes in plain words.
3. Keep the site in your free account (the **Keep it free** link), so it doesn't expire after 72 hours.
4. When you're happy, move your domain over (below). That's the only moment visitors switch to the new site.

> **Plans:** publishing and checking the new site is free. Your own domain needs a paid plan (Prompter or higher); on Free, your AI can offer a 14-day free trial with no card, and asks before starting it.

## Getting the files

- **A site you or a developer built:** you already have the files. If the project has a build step, publish the folder it produces (often `dist` or `build`).
- **A website builder with an export option:** export the site as HTML and publish that folder.
- **A builder with no export:** ask your AI to rebuild the site from its pages, as above. Only copy content you own.
- **Photos:** ask your AI for an upload link and drop them in. See [Change your site](/docs/edit#add-photos-and-files).

Server code (PHP, Node, Python) and databases don't run on Page Lemon. Contact forms and bookings move over as Page Lemon [forms](/docs/forms) and [bookings](/docs/bookings): ask your AI to replace the old ones.

## Move your domain

Your domain stays registered where it is. You only change where it points.

```prompt
Connect www.maisoncafe.co.uk to my site
```

1. Your AI adds the domain to your Page Lemon site and gives you a link.
2. Open it, sign in at your domain company and click **Connect**. It points `www` at your new site and leaves your email alone.
3. Your domain shows the new site, usually within minutes. Page Lemon emails you when it's live.

Some domain companies don't support one-click connect yet. Then your AI gives you the records instead: at your domain company, change the existing `www` record to the new `CNAME` and add the `TXT` record (two records with the same name block each other), and leave your `MX` records alone so your email keeps working.

Step by step: [Your own domain](/docs/connect-domain).

## After the move

- Wait until your domain shows the new site before you cancel the old one.
- Check your old links still work. If pages had different addresses before, ask your AI to add pages at the old addresses that link to the new ones.
- Download a copy of the old site first if you might need it.