Converting WordPress blog to existing Godaddy domain

  • Resolved Product Monitoring

    (@product-monitoring)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    This is my first post and have had to bother you good people as I can’t find exactly what I am looking for elsewhere. I am new to WordPress but I am now a convert.

    Here is my issue:

    I created a rather poor first website (https://www.productmonitoring.co.uk) in Dreamweaver using Godaddy to host it. It then became time to update the site and I was advised to look at WordPress. I have now created the pages etc. in WordPress and wanted to launch it, however I didn’t want the .wordpress.com suffix to the site address. I have tried adding the Godaddy domain to my WordPress account and it is now being hosted by WordPress. I set this address as my primary address but when I looked at the site on the internet, it was still my old one. I have now tried ‘Domain Forwarding’ in Godaddy with masking so that anyone looking at the old site gets re-directed to the new site. This has kind of worked however does come with a few niggles that I am not happy with, I am sure that I there is a way to do this but I can’t find it. Basically I want to totally lose any sign of my old site and replace the content with my new WordPress blog and keep the old domain name.

    Any help anyone can offer will be very much appreciated.

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  • If your site is hosted on WordPress.COM, you need to be asking on their forums here:

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    https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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    (@product-monitoring)

    Well I have managed to get around this issue with the Help of Ragan V from a2ztechnologies.
    Due to other problems I was having I ended up having to remove back-up my WordPress instance and then uninstall it. Re-install pointing at my existing domain and then import the backup file. Doing it this way does require having to put a lot of faith in your backup file. Normally you could just install another instance without having to un-install the working version.
    Turns out most of my problems such as not being able to access wp-admin due to it being re-routed to a .deleteme############### location were due to my ISP (BES Utilities) re-routing our domain name to a non-existant webpage. So if anyone else has this issue it is worth doing a ‘tracert’ from the DOS command line to your domain name and check that the IP address is correct. Thanks again Ragan V for your help.

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