Changing URL of wordpress.org blog to old wordpress.com blog

  • wallsrepublicdesign

    (@wallsrepublicdesign)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,
    I recently exported my wordpress site from wordpress.com to a self-hosted blog.
    My SEO guy insisted on us having our own self-hosted blog instead of one hosted by wordpress.com so we made the switch.
    However, we need to have the URL from the wordpress.com blog, because the URL on our wordpress.org blog is completely unrelated to our store.

    The blog hosted on wordpress.com is blog.wallsrepublic.com – wallsrepublic.com is hosted by Volusion so we are unable to install wordpress directly into our site because Volusion does not support php files.

    The self-hosted blog is on primewalls.com/Blog/wordpress. I know it’s a really ugly URL but I was just using it temporarily until I could switch the URL back to wallsrepublic.
    So is it possible to somehow change the primewalls.com/Blog URL to blog.wallsrepublic.com or even wallsrepublic.com/blog? We cannot link our wordpress.org blog onto our eCommerce website until it has only wallsrepublic in the URL.
    Is this possible, or do I have to buy my own domain like wallsrepublicblog.com?

    Please Help.

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  • Angie Bergmann

    (@radkitten)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Do you have access to your domain? If so, you should be able to set a DNS record to point blog.wallsrepublic.com to your hosting server. You’d need to have the ability to add a hosting account as well, but it is definitely possible.

    Thread Starter wallsrepublicdesign

    (@wallsrepublicdesign)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Okay so I add a DNS record within the primewalls DNS settings, and the hostname should be the blog.wallsrepublic.com?

    Or is it the other way around, I add a DNS record within wallsrepublic and point it to primewalls where my self-hosted blog is?

    Sorry I am not very good with technical stuff.

    Angie Bergmann

    (@radkitten)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    For the DNS records at wallsrepublic, if you login you should be able to set an A record. It would look something like this:

    Record type: A
    Source: blog
    IP: yourserverIP

    You could then setup a hosting account for blog.wallsrepublic.com and use that for the website, without affecting your Volusion site.

    Thread Starter wallsrepublicdesign

    (@wallsrepublicdesign)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Thank you for your help. I think I figured it out – I just need to get access to adding a hosting account.

    Angie Bergmann

    (@radkitten)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Not a problem! Good luck!

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