Hi. I’ve just getting to grips with building my own wordpress sites and really enjoying wordpress, my test site is beginning to look just as I want it to.<\/p>\n
This is more of a hosting\/redirection question.<\/p>\n
I have built my test website on http:\/\/examplesubdomain.mytestdomainname.com<\/p>\n
My actuall website is currently http:\/\/www.thegreenwoodtreegallery.com\/<\/p>\n
My new lovely wordpress site is almost ready to go live but how do i point the domain address at my test site? I don’t want to do just a simple 301 redirect of the domain, because then it just shows my http:\/\/examplesubdomain.mytestdomainname.com in the address bar.<\/p>\n
Do I need to actually rebuild (exporting all my wordpress files etc) onto my domain? Or can I just point my preferred domain name at the location is has been built and keep the domain name in the address bar, along with the subfolders?<\/p>\n
Does that make sense?<\/p>\n
I set up and own all the domain accounts etc.<\/p>\n
How do professional web design companies manage to flick over a new site from ‘old site’ to ‘new site’ without needing to take down the domain name and rebuilding on the preferred domain name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3406601","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/3406601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/3406601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}