Change from mydomain.com to www.mydomain.com – not sure which instructions?

  • Resolved ksignorini

    (@ksignorini)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    *sigh*

    I just spent the day creating my new site and realized afterwards that I’ve been building it using the domain: mydomain.com instead of http://www.mydomain.com

    I only have 1 blog post so far, but I have installed a number of plugins, changed some CSS, and uploaded a bunch of files such as downloadable PDF’s for clients and images for NextGen Gallery image galleries.

    I’ve found a number of Codex documents that _seem_ to point to instructions that I might follow, but I really don’t know WHICH instructions I need to follow.

    (The ones I found are: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL and http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress) but honestly, I can’t figure out which are the right instructions–they all seem like different scenarios (these pages are not written very well).

    So again, right now I’m at: mydomain.com and I want to switch to http://www.mydomain.com. That’s all.

    I can create a subdomain http://www.mydomain.com at my hosting company easy enough, though they say that I don’t need to do it manually–their system will create http://www.mydomain.com automatically. (I was actually using http://www.mydomain.com as a CNAME for a separate site but I’ve now completely removed that CNAME record and the associated A record that I was using to direct the domain to a separate host. Now I’m hosting my own.)

    So a further question is: Should I manually create the http://www.mydomain.com subdomain and point it to the directory that WordPress is using, or should I let the host automatically create the redirect as the host suggests it can?

    Hopefully this is clear enough. Please help.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Actually, http://www.mydomain.com is the same as http://mydomain.com but WordPress will display it as non-www if told to do so. There’s no need to create a subdomain.

    To change it, go to Settings/General and change the two URLs to http://www.mydomain.com (obviously substituting your domain).

    After doing this, you may need to re-save your permalink structure at Settings/Permalinks in your admin panel. If WordPress cannot automatically edit the .htaccess file, it will provide manual instructions after saving.

    Thread Starter ksignorini

    (@ksignorini)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks!

    Worked perfectly, and it updated my permalinks without problem.

    I wasn’t sure what was going to happen if I tried this myself–honestly, the documentation is not good on this subject.

    Take care and thanks for your help.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    13 years, 8 months ago

    You’re welcome!

    Thread Starter ksignorini

    (@ksignorini)

    13 years, 8 months ago

    Incidentally, had I changed from mydomain.com to blog.mydomain.com, would I have had to do anything differently? If so, which instructions would I have had to follow?

    Thanks again.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    13 years, 8 months ago

    In that case, you’d have to follow this guide:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site

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