Domain issue starting a new blog

  • Hello!

    The organization I was asked to create a blog has its own hosting and wants this blog to be hosted separately. The desired name for the blog is blog.organization.co.uk. Since I cannot register a subdomain with a new hosting provider (I chose HostPapa) I have chosen option ”I own a domain name” and registered organization.co.uk. When I got an IP address to this domain, a subdomain blog.organization.co.uk was linked to it. Now when you enter blog.organization.co.uk address it opens the main website. Can I install WordPress on to an existing domain name that is hosted elsewhere?

    Would changing the primary domain name to something like organizationblog.co.uk the domain could be still linked to blog.organization.co.uk?

    What is my way out of this? Preferably, I must have a website that is separate from the main site but has the end link of blog.organization.co.uk (for typing in and then being send to my new blog site).

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  • The way that I’d set it up woudl be to have your new hosting account set for the domain blog.organization.co.uk (and yes, you can set up a hosting account for a sub domain, you don’t need to have the primary domain on that hosting account). When you’ve done that you’ll need to add an A record for the new subdomain so that the DNS records know that there’s a sub domain to serve as well. You’ll do this either with your domain registrar or on your existing hosting account, which one depends on the functionality of both/either of those systems.

    Thread Starter Paulamoc

    (@paulamoc)

    Thank you for your answer. How do I register a subdomain as a primer domain? At the start of the registration it didn’t allow me to enter a subdomain, I would get error messages.

    Also, since I have registered a wrong domain name (because it already is registered and hosted elsewhere and won’t be transfered) do I have to change it completely?

    If you get error messages for that, you’ll need to talk to your hosting company and get them to fix what ever the problem is. There’s nothing that we can do about that.

    Same with changing it. Your hosting company should be able to do that, but you need to talk to them.

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