changing domain name

  • donnanavarro

    (@donnanavarro)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    My site is hosted with TSO Host. I want to rename my website from its current name http://www.oldexample.co.uk to http://www.newexample.com – I’ve ourchased the new domain name and placed it in the cPanel parked domains area – can anyone tell me what I need to do to oldexample.co.uk please?

    I realise I need to go into settings and change home address and site URL, but is there anything I need to do before this and how do I activate the new name and also redirect all pages from the old site?? I want to keep all of my content, I simply want to change the name of my website.

    If anyone can please explain in a super, simple step-by-step list, I’d be so grateful! I’ve tried reading this:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

    but I’m not sure which bit I’m supposed to be following, if any.

    Many thanks,

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  • Evan Herman

    (@eherman24)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    You would ideally want to set up a 301 redirect to the new domain from your old domain

    most hosts can do this fairly easily on their backend. or you could call tech support and have them set it up for you.

    lettergrade

    (@lettergrade)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    If the new domain is pointing to the same server location and no files need to move, then I believe you should be fine just following the instructions in that link to change the home address and site URL.

    (Anybody else think of something I’m missing?)

    Here are steps you may want to take to make sure that Google knows your new domain name, and also to ensure that incoming links from other sources still find your original content: How to Properly Change your Domain Name Without SEO Penalties

    Thread Starter donnanavarro

    (@donnanavarro)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you lettergrade – TSOHost said all I needed to do was to park the new domain name and then go into wordpress general settings and change the home address and site URL, but the more I’ve read into it the more I’ve got myself confused with it all!

    Evan Herman, I had intended to try and set up a 301 redirect to the new domain from the old domain – don’t know how to do that and TSOHost said if I did the above, wordpress.org would sort the redirect for me?

    Thread Starter donnanavarro

    (@donnanavarro)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you lettergrade for the link you attached – nice and clear. I’m just not sure if my site is run on Apache but I guess my host will confirm.

    I think you may have sorted my issue for me so many thanks.

    lettergrade

    (@lettergrade)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Glad to hear it!

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