Dumb question about MU, domain mapping, re-directs

Somewhere in there you’re confused.

If http://theinfluenceofteachers.com/ redirects to http://theinfluenceofteachers.wordpress.com/ then nothing’s installed there (or if it is, no one can get at it).

Step one is to turn off redirection.

If you want your main domain to run the site you have at WordPress.com you need to go do this: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

WordPress.com is NOT a self-hosted WordPress multisite. If you want to do that, it’s a whole different thing.

It’s theinfluenceofteachers not just influenceofteachers.

What are you using to redirect?

Not the ‘issue’ but the ’cause’ 🙂

Do you want theinfluenceofteachers.com to be self hosted or to run off wordpress.com?

It’s okay 🙂

Do you want to install WordPress on your own server and configure it and support it? Becuase you CAN use your own domain on a wordpress.com site.

That’s what I said here:

If you want your main domain to run the site you have at WordPress.com you need to go do this: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

You paid WordPress.com $12 to map your domain and it’s not working? Cause unless you do THE WHOLE THING, no, it won’t work.

What I’m trying to figure out is this:

Do you want to install WordPress on your own server and configure it and support it OR do you want your http://theinfluenceofteachers.wordpress.com site to run off it’s own domain name?

These are DIFFERENT things, and you can only pick one 🙂

Okay, first read this: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

That will explain the difference between WordPress.org (installing WordPress on a server and running it yourself) and WordPress.com (using a wordpress install hosted on wordpress.com that you don’t install at all, and just use).

Once you understand the difference, then you should understand what I’m asking.

If you still want to keep the wordpress.com site and just have it use the domain name, you need to re-read this: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-existing-domain/

Pay CLOSE ATTENTION to the part where it says you have to pay $12 a year to do this. Cause until you pay, it ain’t working. If you need help with how to do that, you have to ask at http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ becuase this forum is for SELF hosted WordPress.

If you’ve paid, go to http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ and post there. They can help you better.

Make sure you did EVERYTHING there. Including the part where you point your name servers to WordPress.com Right now it’s still redirecting, which means it’s still pointing to your other server.