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SamJolly
SamJolly

Reputation: 6477

I need to repoint a Domain on a Names host to another server that runs my WordPress site?

I have a Domain host (JustHosts.com) that host my domain name: 

mydomain.com

I have another server with a WordPress site on it which is accessed directly as:

mywordpress.com/wpsite1

I want this to be accessed via mydomain.com, so:

mydomain.com -> mywordpress.com/wpsite1

The URL should stay as mydomain.com, not go back to mywordpress.com/wpsite1.

I can add the following types of records:

A
CNAME
MX
TXT
SRV
AAAA

What should I do on my domain host to make this change?

Many thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 188

Answers (1)

eQ19
eQ19

Reputation: 10701

I could solve this in particular condition where we use subdomain to pointing to the WordPress site and the Wordpress site itself is installed on a host provider that is using cPanel.

Formerly I simply set CName on subdomain blog.mydomain.com to the subdomain where my Wordpress site is installed. Unfortunately this pointing was resulting a redirection like this:

http://blog.mydomain.com/cgi-sys/defaultwebpage.cgi

Searching for a solutiom then I found this documentation:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-domain-mapping/installation/

It is actually a documentation for a plugin to map any blog/site on a WordPressMU or WordPress 3.X network to an external domain. I didn't install the plugins I just marked that for cPanell users we need to put the mydomain.com as a parked domain in cPanel where the Wordpress site is installed.

So with the cPanel I uninstalled my WordPress and rearrange the installation step as below: 

1. Put mydomain.com as a parked domain   
2. Re install WordPress using blog.mydomain.com

Viola! The blog.mydomain.com is running the WordPress perfectly and stay in blog.mydomain.com without any error or redirection to other domain.

Upvotes: 1

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