Grabbing a Static IP

  • I am trying to have a website use an a record to grab the information from a website I have already set up and display the information from the second on the first website. I have heard that you need to manually configure something in wordpress before this will properly work. If anyone knows how to point an a record at a wordpress site and have it work properly please let me know. Thanks in advance!

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  • what do you mean by “the information” exactly? that will determine if a record is necessary and how you should proceed.

    is there a reason the domain name can’t just point to the installation on the second (original) site?

    Thread Starter marian22

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    Ok Site A is the site with wordpress on it and it has its own domain.
    Site B is blank right now with its own domain. I am trying to point the A record of Site B at the IP of Site A, however wordpress apparently modifies or otherwise changes the IP so it isn’t the same? I am a little fuzzy on that bit, but when I but the IP in is says 404 cannot find. I am sure it is the proper IP for Site A but it doesn’t work. I was informed I could hack a couple files on my wordpress install and it would work but my source didn’t know which or how to do this.

    i have never heard of that, and i think there is something getting lost.

    your ip is either static or dynamic. I highly doubt a server would be dynamic, so we’ll assume static. wordpress can and will not change it (as long as they don’t host it). wordpress does tie it’s installation to the domain name, but still does not affect the domain name in any way. wordpress is all server side and the domain and ip are before the server, therefore it can’t “change” them.

    what i would do is ping site a, that is live. then put the ip it returns you into your browser, and make sure it opens the site. if so, there is the ip for the server. if it’s not what you thought, it changed. it was not wordpress that did it though.

    instead of an A record you could do a simple redirect. your could do an htaccess permanent redirect, or even an http meta refresh.

    but an A record is simply not suited for what you want. if it must be a change to the DNS for site B, then it should be the CNAME record(C Record). A signifies the host, which site B is not. C signifies an alias, which site b is.

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