subdomain issue – please help?

  • gothbrooks

    (@gothbrooks)


    15 years, 5 months ago

    Hello there. I have a blog that I built using BLOGGER for three years. I have finally been convinced of the benefits of a WordPress membership, so I imported all my posts and comments from BLOGGER, and installed WordPress on my own domain by creating a /wp folder in my main domain.

    Now, my BLOGGER page has been forwarded to a subdomain (blog.domain.com) for quite some time, but I would like to devote that subdomain my WordPress site. In the most simple of terms, my goal was to migrate from BLOGGER to WordPress and have the WordPress site point to my blog.domain.com subdomain.

    I’ve hit a huge snag along the way. I tried in wp-admin to point the site to the subdomain, but it didn’t work (and, in fact, almost destroyed the WordPress site). I tried removing the BLOGGER setting to point that blog to the subdomain, and effectively killed THAT site, too!

    My hosting service is 1and1.com

    Please, does anybody know the easiest way I can resolve this issue? I am admittedly NOT a comp. sci. person, and generally use the trial-and-error method to tweak themes. I don’t know much about coding, and I hope nothing excessively difficult is involved in this process, and if it is, I might need it spelled out to me slowly. If there is someone who has the time and the patience to help, I would be most appreciative.

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  • jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    If you’ve already imported all your posts and comments from your Blogger blog, is there any reason why you can’t install WP on the subdomain? Why forward it? Maybe I don’t understand what you want to accomplish.

    And yep fiddling with those settings in the WP dashboard is a really good way to blow up your blog. 😛

    Thread Starter gothbrooks

    (@gothbrooks)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    for some reason, the subdomain is not available for manipulation via FTP. before, i just had it set up in the 1and1 control panel to accept the Google CNAME DNS address, which placed the BLOGGER blog easily in that subdomain.

    now that i’m using wordpress, i have deleted the subdomain, re-added it, but i am not sure if i should set up the subdomain to forward to the wordpress page from the 1and1 control panel, or should i set up the wordpress page to forward to the subdomain in the wordpress control panel.

    Thread Starter gothbrooks

    (@gothbrooks)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    okay, so i set up the subdomain (blog.swanfungus.com) to redirect to (www.swanfungus.com/wp) in the 1and1.com control panel.

    but i think that’s the reverse of what i want, isn’t it? i want the wordpress site to direct to the subdomain. it is obviously more difficult, but if someone care to explain how i can do it, i’d be eternally thankful.

    ugh.

    iridiax

    (@iridiax)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    i want the wordpress site to direct to the subdomain.

    Unless WordPress is on this subdomain, this won’t work.

    Thread Starter gothbrooks

    (@gothbrooks)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    do you think it is easier to just have my blog as the root of my domain? it seems like way less of a hassle.

    jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Definitely. But you can access a subdomain via FTP. It will look like a folder, in your case, /blog, on your swanfungus.com domain. If you login to your FTP client with your site’s root account, you should be able to navigate right to it. Unix treats it like any other folder (subdirectory), but it behaves like a domain/subdomain.

    And unless there’s going to be something else on that site (domain), I always install WP in the root or in a subdom. I cannot understand the reluctance to do that.

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