wordpress.com to org switch problems

  • kickstar1

    (@kickstar1)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    i read almost everything i could find on this and i cannot find the answer. here is my deal…

    i have a blog on wordpress.com. i want to switch to the org/hosted type. i signed up with siteground and used cpanel with the fantastico app. i installed everything and it seems to be fine. when i try to access my ‘new’ admin page and put in my user name and password it does not accept it and says it is wrong username. what it looks like though is my domain.com/wp-admin is just taking me back to the login page for wordpress.com. i registered the domain with godaddy which is forwarding the domain to the wp.com account. i cannot seem to be able to access the ‘new’ org account from anywhere. help…

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    You gave the answer to your question:
    i registered the domain with godaddy which is forwarding the domain to the wp.com account.

    If it is forwarded – it means it is forwarded. Remove that forwarding, otherwise you will never access your blog on that domain.
    Unless… you wanted your wp.com blog to be shown when somebody goes to your domain.

    Note. Removing the forwarding it will display your new and empty blog!

    Thread Starter kickstar1

    (@kickstar1)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    thanks for the quick response.

    so i basically have to do the import/export xml thing as quickly as possible so people do not access an empty blog? i was hoping to keep the folks directed to the .com site while i worked on the .org site and got it ready but i assume from what you are saying that is not possible?

    thanks.

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    A domain is either redirected or not. As a wise saying in my mother tongue would put it: you cannot sit in two saddles with one ass 🙂

    Thread Starter kickstar1

    (@kickstar1)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    that would depend on the size of one’s ass…

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