need to change the url for my WP site

  • Ok, so I created a WP site within my large hosting plan.

    I host multiple sites here, which are each stored in their own respective directory (folder).

    The following example uses made up urls.

    So if my main hosting is called https://primary.mainhosting.com
    and then I create a site called https://www.designer.com…

    I typically create a directory called “/designer” that is hosted underneath my primary hosting plan (with all of the wordpress files stored in the “/designer” directory). Then when someone visits https://www.designer.com, they see the wordpress site.

    Right now the site I created, has urls that look like this… https://primary.mainhosting.com/designer

    and then the separate pages look like
    https://primary.mainhosting.com/designer/?pageid=6

    However, I would like them to look like this…
    https://designer.com/?pageid=6

    Is that something that I can change under general settings in the
    WordPress address (URL) space … and the
    Site address (URL) space ?

    Right now the settings are…
    WordPress address (URL) https://primary.mainhosting.com/designer

    and…
    Site address (URL) https://primary.mainhosting.com/designer

    And when you visit the homepage to the site it says
    https://www.designer.com (as I want it to)

    However, when you start going to different pages…
    it shows the longer url which I do not want
    primary.mainhosting.com/designer/?pageid=6

    this is what I want…
    designer.com/?pageid=6

    Does this make any sense to anyone? I think if I change those settings to be
    https://designer.com, then that would fix my problem?

    But of course I’m terrified that it will shut down the entire site, and I definitely don’t want to deal with that scenario.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated, as I am up against the clock at this point. Thank you!

    I would have used the real url’s but I don’t want this to be searchable for the client’s sake. Thank you.

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  • Thread Starter rhender

    (@rhender)

    I probably should mention for future searchers…. that I am having to manually go into my pages and modify the urls for the images on my website.

    When I changed the url and home settings in phpMyAdmin, it did not do anything to update the image urls.

    Just thought I would mention that, so I wasn’t leaving a false happy ending to the thread. Everything else seems to be working just fine though, after changing just the home and url settings in phpMyAdmin.

    Woohoo!

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