Title: Moving URL
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Moving URL

 *  Resolved [davehedgehog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davehedgehog/)
 * (@davehedgehog)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-url/)
 * I’ve read this [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Changing_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Changing_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs)
   and am in the middle of downloading my files (taking a very long time) and I’m
   wondering if there’s not an easier way to do this.
 * I have my root site, and then this site was a subdirectory inside of it (eg root.
   com and root.com/newsite). I’ve now got a new domain name for root.com/newsite
   so that it’ll just be newsite.com. I’m not moving the files or changing hosting
   accounts. I tried changing the URLs in the settings, but although it gave me 
   the correct homepage, the other pages gave errors and it would also redirect 
   to wp-admin as if it were still in the subdirectory.
 * So.. is there any way I can change the URL of the site without this lengthy process?
   Can I not just change a few lines here and there?

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 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-url/#post-5707746)
 * What hosting are you on , Windows or Linux? If you have cPanel then you can just
   point the domain to the sub-directory. In WordPress just use the domain name 
   for Home and URL.
 *  Thread Starter [davehedgehog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davehedgehog/)
 * (@davehedgehog)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-url/#post-5707754)
 * That seemed to have got it working, though it was pretty much what I did before
   so maybe I’d made a mistake the first time or something wasn’t loading properly.
   Thanks!
 *  [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * (@radices)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-url/#post-5707780)
 * That’s great …please mark this resolved.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Radices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radices/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-url/#post-5707780)
 * Status: resolved

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