use your host’s cpanel or whatever and create a sub domain that uses that directory
after doing so, change the 2 url’s in
dashboard – settings – general
to the sub domain url
use your host’s cpanel or whatever and create a sub domain that uses that directory
after doing so, change the 2 url’s in
dashboard – settings – general
to the sub domain url
well i had already taken care of contacting my host and creating the subdomain that uses that directory. so that was already set up. i went to dashboard – settings – general and changed the 2 URL’s. now, there’s some weird stuff happening: if i browse to nightlife.bethany-ag.org, it just takes me to the same place as http://www.bethany-ag.org. try it yourself…
if i go to nightlife.bethany-ag.org/wp-admin, it tells me my password is wrong and then redirects me to the http://www.bethany-ag.org/wp-admin login screen.
i can’t even get back to the nightlife wp-admin to change the 2 URL’s back.
you can easily change the url’s back
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
the subdomain is not set up correctly or it would work
edit –
are you sure you set BOTH url’s to the subdomain? because it looks as if one points to root
I actually have noticed this same problem with subdomains
any time you try to login to the subdomain with the admin credentials the page has been redirected to the wp-login.php page with this addresss
http://sub.domain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fsub.domain.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1 . This is while being logged into the wp-admin of domain.com in another tab?
Do you have any idea why it has lost admin priveleges for the sub domain blog?
okay, i used the wp-config.php file to ensure the URL’s are set correctly by adding these lines:
define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://nightlife.bethany-ag.org’);
define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://nightlife.bethany-ag.org’);
i also used a different browser to make sure i was not logged into the admin for http://www.bethany-ag.org and tried to log into the admin for nightlife.bethany-ag.org and kept getting the same problem.
anything else you want me to try?
ok, so I went in and reset the database for the wordpress settings. the site URL’s are back to the default (bethany-ag.org/nightlife/). i have regained admin access. i’m back to square one. bethany-ag.org/nightlife/ now loads properly.
so apparently, after speaking to my host, my subdomain (nightlife.bethany-ag.org) doesn’t “use” any directory in the state that it’s set up. it just points to the IP of the main URL (bethany-ag.org). they said that’s what the 301 redirect in the .htaccess is for, to point nightlife.bethany-ag.org to the sub-directory where the site sits (bethany-ag.org/nightlife/)
still confused… wordpress is sitting in bethany-ag.org/nightlife/ All I want to do is share the website to people with the subdomain: “nightlife.bethany-ag.org” instead of the subdirectory. i never want “bethany-ag.org/nightlife/” to appear in the browser address bar, even though that’s where the WordPress install sits.
is that enough information to get some more specific instruction here?
I hope I am asking this question to the right forum.
I host my WP website and the domain name in domainname.com all subdomain names end in .php for example domainname.com/sumbomainname.php
The programmers who set up my site have installed redirect instructions to redirect numerous subdomainnames to other subdomain names and to the home. However, I no longer work with them. Long story.
I want to redirect a misnamed subdomain to the home page.
For example we already redirect domainname.com/subdomain.php to the home (domainname.com/index.php) page correctly. But now I want to redirect domainname.com/subdomain to domainname.com/index.php
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@hawkeye21, you are in the right sub-forum but could you please start your own thread?
It’s the best way to get attention on your specific issue.
