Change my site URL
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I have a new site on WordPress.org that is hosted. I have used the WordPress installer on my host CPanel. Domain: catguytx.com When I go to my default wordpress site the address is: http://79.170.40.37/catguytx.com/ Within the admin settings there are two fields, both containing http://79.170.40.37/catguytx.com/ The two fields are WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) I want to change it so when you enter in the browser http://www.catguytx.com you are taken to my WP site. When I make a change in WP Admin to these fields, my site at http://79.170.40.37/catguytx.com/ loses its CSS styling and none of the links will work. I have read about accessing the wp_options in the database and the record has those fields listed as this:
siteurl: http://www.catguytx.com and home is http://79.170.40.37/catguytx.com/
I do not understand why I can’t change the WP Address to http://www.catguytx.com and have a favorable outcome, all it does is unstyle my page as in no CSS and non functions links. Can someone please assist?
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change them properly. follow this guide:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_databaseThank you Tara but I was contacted by the support desk of my web host. I purchased a course through Udemy that included 1 year of free web hosting. I didn’t realize that the domain wasn’t part of the free year. It really is 1 year free of only hosting. I never bought the catguytx.com domain and that is what the problem is. I should have realized that, but I didn’t. What threw me is that when installing WP it gave the the option of catguytx.com or 79.170.40.37/catguytx.com (which is free). I’m knowledgeable enough and did some searching on my own and I had already opened up the SQL database and made the changes in wp_options but of course, that didn’t solve my issue because the domain isn’t registered. When I changed the database back to the 79.170.40.37/catguytx.com, that brought everything back correctly. Thank you for your time….
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