Title: Changing site URL question
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Changing site URL question

 *  [TeqToo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teqtoo/)
 * (@teqtoo)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-site-url-question/)
 * A site I’m building for a client is currently sitting on the server where they
   will eventually be hosting the site, but since their domain name is still pointed
   to their existing website, the web host provided me with a testing server to 
   build the site – [http://www.domain-name.com/00.0.00.000.nameofhost.com](http://www.domain-name.com/00.0.00.000.nameofhost.com).
 * The site is nearly finished, and in the next day or so I will be changing the
   domain’s nameservers to the new host’s.
 * The host gave me the link to the codex page on changing the site URL, but I just
   want to make sure I do everything in the proper order. I have quite a few images
   on the site (both in posts, and in static pages, and in slide shows and galleries).
 * When I change the domain nameservers, then I assume I will have to change the
   WordPress URL and Site URL in the Dashboard settings to [http://www.domain-name.com](http://www.domain-name.com).
   What will happen to all of the internal links, and image url’s? Will they all
   have to be changed manually? Or will they change when I change the Site URL in
   the Dashboard?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-site-url-question/#post-5055384)
 * You need to review [Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress).
 *  Thread Starter [TeqToo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teqtoo/)
 * (@teqtoo)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-site-url-question/#post-5055395)
 * OK, that was helpful. I assume I would be following the directions for “On your
   Existing Server”. On the other hand, I’m not sure I understand exactly what the
   webhost has done, because when I go to the File Manager in the hosting control
   panel, I don’t see the files existing inside a sub-directory – they are already
   in the root of the site. But when I’m looking at the Dashboard, all the file 
   locations have the /00.0.00.000.nameofhost.com. after the domain name.
 * If the files are already in the root directory, then should I just change the
   nameserver settings in the domain’s control panel, then change the WordPress 
   Address and Site Address in the Dashboard?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-site-url-question/#post-5055400)
 * > I assume I would be following the directions for “On your Existing Server”.
 * Correct.
 * > I’m not sure I understand exactly what the webhost has done
 * I think you need to ask them about this.
 *  Thread Starter [TeqToo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teqtoo/)
 * (@teqtoo)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-site-url-question/#post-5055451)
 * > I think you need to ask them about this.
 * I have. They talk like a sphinx.

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 * Last reply from: [TeqToo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teqtoo/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-site-url-question/#post-5055451)
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