Title: Hosting   Domain name
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Hosting Domain name

 *  [luisneto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luisneto/)
 * (@luisneto)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-domain-name/)
 * Hi,
 * I installed WordPress on a free hosting provider. Let’s say its address is [http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname](http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname).
 * I also bought a domain name from another company. Let’s say the domain name is
   [http://www.myblogname.com](http://www.myblogname.com).
 * When I write [http://www.myblogname.com](http://www.myblogname.com) on my browser,
   my blog shows up. Everything’s fine until here.
 * What happens is that when I put the mouse over any link, the browser reveals 
   the hosting address, instead of showing the domain name. For example, if it’s
   a link to a page named Music, putting the mouse over it shows the address:
    **
   [http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname/music](http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname/music)**,
   instead of **[http://www.myblogname.com/music](http://www.myblogname.com/music)**
 * I managed to change this by changing the Blog address (URL) in the General Options
   Administration Panel from [http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname](http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname)
   to [http://www.myblogname.com](http://www.myblogname.com), but then ALL the links
   on the blog STOP working: no matter what link I click at, it always takes me 
   back to the blog’s root address (www.myblogname.com). The blog loses all the 
   funcionality.
    Even typing [http://www.myblogname.com/music](http://www.myblogname.com/music)
   on the browser takes my back to the blogs root.
 * I appreciate for your support.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-domain-name/#post-703130)
 * Well, it will never work like that.
 *  Thread Starter [luisneto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luisneto/)
 * (@luisneto)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-domain-name/#post-703133)
 * Why not?
 *  [Khairil Zhafri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poppacket/)
 * (@poppacket)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-domain-name/#post-703135)
 * It will be helpful to know:
    1. Where exactly WP is installed? Which directory?
   2. How myblogname.com is set up? Is it redirected to [http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname?](http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname?)
   or parked at hostingcompanyname.com? 3. Can you access your blog in subdomain
   myblogname.hostingcompanyname.com?
 *  Thread Starter [luisneto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luisneto/)
 * (@luisneto)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-domain-name/#post-703140)
 * First, a correction: The correct address through the hosting server is **myblogname.
   hostingcompanyname.com**, instead of **[http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname](http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname)**
   as I wrote on the first post.
 * 1. WordPress is installed at the FTP root directory of my hosting server, so 
   I can access it by typing myblogname.hostingcompanyname.com.
    2. The domain name
   [http://www.myblogname.com](http://www.myblogname.com) is set up to redirect 
   to myblogname.hostingcompanyname.com. 3. Yes, that’s the way I access it. Forget
   the [http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname](http://www.hostingcompanyname.com/myblogname).
 *  [Khairil Zhafri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poppacket/)
 * (@poppacket)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hosting-domain-name/#post-703147)
 * Check out this thread:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/158312?replies=14](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/158312?replies=14)
 * Hope it helps.

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