Changing the url of a site

  • Hi. I am setting up a website as a subdomain of my main site.

    I have a new domain name that I want it to appear as (let’s call it newsite.com)

    At the moment, I have it as https://mainsite.net/newsitecom.

    I want to change the url to simply newsite.com.

    I have ben into phpmyadmin and changed the wp_options files – ‘home’ and ‘siteurl’ to newsite.com.

    I have today pointed the DNS at the server I am using.

    Is there anything else I need to do for the site to appear? At the moment, I am getting an internal server error. Do I jjust have to wait for the DNS to resolve or is there something else I need to do?

    Many thanks. I am hopelessly non-technical, so your assistance would be most welcome!

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  • I am setting up a website as a subdomain of my main site…

    I want to change the url to simply newsite.com.

    I have read it is possible to do some coding that could make it *appear* that way to a browser, but I believe ‘newsite.com’ would first have to actually be a registered domain (such as an Add-On Domain at your hosting account) before it could actually be directly accessed as ‘newsite.com’.

    Thread Starter lewisevans777

    (@lewisevans777)

    Thanks leejosepho. It is already a registered domain.

    setting up a website as a subdomain

    At my own host, that would be called an Add-On Domain.

    I want it to appear as (let’s call it newsite.com)

    At the moment, I have it as https://mainsite.net/newsitecom.

    I want to change the url to simply newsite.com.

    For my own add-ons, I simply go to cPanel and assign them to their unique installation folders and then neither my Primary URL nor any Add-On URL are ever dependent upon the other.

    Thread Starter lewisevans777

    (@lewisevans777)

    Thanks, yes. I have figured that out today and everything is working fine. Thanks for your inputs!

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