Changing Hosting Around

  • Resolved karllhughes

    (@karllhughes)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    This is kind of a strange problem, so feel free to ask me questions if it doesn’t make sense:
    I have WordPress installed and working with a HostGator.com hosting account on a HostGator domain name. Let’s call it “domainA.com”. I bought a domain name from Godaddy, “domainB.com”, and would like to use my existing WP install on HostGator and stop using domainA.com for this WordPress install.
    I also have a second HostGator account with another domain name “domainC.com”, that I installed wordpress on. I’d now like to use domainA.com with my WordPress install on domainC.com.
    Basically, I want the site currently at domainA.com to be at domainB.com, and the site at domainC.com to be located at domainA.com.
    So far, I’ve changed the Nameserver on domainB.com to the HostGator hosting associated with domainA.com, but I’m a little lost as to what to do next. Should I just change the “Site URL” on my WordPress installs? I’ve done a domain change a number of times, but it’s always been within a single web host and domain registration and I’m not super-familiar with the way HostGator works in this case.

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  • Go Daddy

    (@gdhosting)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Yeah, this is definitely a bit confusing, but you can break it down to just a few important factors:

    * The domain you want to use must be pointed to the proper hosting account. This is normally as simple as applying the appropriate nameservers for the hosting provider in question.
    * The hosting account must be setup to use the domain name that you’ve directed to it. In other words, it needs to know that you sending domain X to it rather than some other domain.
    * The WordPress settings need to have the correct path in both the “WordPress address” and “Site address” settings. These two are usually the same and normally just the domain name that you’re using for the site.

    So, you said that domainB.com is using the HostGator nameservers. That’s step one. Now, you need to make sure that the hosting account at HostGator is setup to display a site for that domain. If you’re not sure how to do that or you want to check that it’s setup correctly, contact their Support team to help out. Once you’re sure it’s setup properly, confirm the two settings in WordPress are set for domainB.com, and that should be it.

    Thread Starter karllhughes

    (@karllhughes)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Okay, that’s exactly what I thought. If I have any more issues, I’ll repost. Sorry that was such a complicated issue. My client apparently set up all these hosting accounts in the most convoluted way possible, haha. Thanks for your help!

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