Questions tagged [dns]
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Setting up a wordpress network with third level domains
I've been looking into setting up a WordPress network install. Everything has been going pretty smoothly until I get to the point where my desired domain layout doesn't fit well.
I would like to ...
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WP Multisite development with Mamp Pro and wildcard subdomains, not really working for me
I´m trying to set up a local development environment for me to work on a Wordpress multisite that I´m building. I use Mamp Pro with default ports (Apache: 80, MySQL: 3306), and I also added a new host ...
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How do you seamlessly switch hosting?
I recently switched a WP site from shared hosting to a VPS and would like to document the process here.
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Timeout While Upgrading Network in Multi-site
I updated from 3.8 to 3.8.1 on a Multi-site setup. The initial upgrade was fine.
When I clicked "Upgrade Network" ... It fails after some time and prompts me with:
Your server may not be able to ...
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Website redirecting to old domain name
I was developing website on test.example.com on a separate server. Meanwhile, the working server was example.com at GoDaddy.
The WordPress website was working fine on both servers. But then I changed ...
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Alias domain to Multi-site installation in Apache
This is regarding to set an Alias domain to Multi-site installation.
We want to create a short domain as alias to my main website(Multi-Site enabled).I have tried it using a most common options like.....
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Can't access Wordpress multisite after connecting to domain
Installed Wordpress Subdirectory Multisite on Vultr server, connected Google Domain, but can't access it. It is showing ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT.
When checking DNS, A records are fine, but CNAME ...
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Pointing SSL Enabled URL at Single WordPress Page
Synopsis
So, for this example, assume that we have https://example.org hosted on WP Engine. Everything works fine, nothing custom here in regards to the domain mapping.
https://example2.org is a ...
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Use single-site install and map entities to subdomains
Not sure if this is a pipe-dream, but I am interested in the URL rewriting capabilities (and DNS mapping) of a single-site WordPress install.
Typically in a WordPress MU setup, we'd use WordPress Mu ...
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Wordpress multisite with different domain
I'm new in the WordPress world and I've created WordPress multi site.
I want to set different domain for my child sites.
Lets say my main site is www.myMainSite.com and my child is www.mySonSite.com....
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How to test drive WordPress on VPS with LEMP stack before going live?
I have example.com up and running on a VPS droplet running Ubuntu 16.04. The website was built with WordPress on LEMP stack (Linux EngineX MySql and PHP) which was done using EeasyEngine. EasyEngine ...
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CNAME site attempts to load files over HTTP instead of HTTPS
The main site
https://www.ptacunits.com
loads fine. We have a CNAME pointing from the above domain to the following domain,
https://www.ptacfactoryparts.com
however, the page source shows HTTP ...
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Domain name in a WordPress Network
I have a domain-based network. Blogs are like:
blog1.domain.com
blog2.domain.com
One of these blogs needs to be migrated to a domain blog1.com, but without leave the network. I know I have to poing ...
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Multisite domain naming
i am new to wordpress multi-site. We are planning to have PaaS.
Internal subdomains i know can be possible to map. However can i use external subdomain via DNA (cname) to map?
for example
i know that ...
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Site resolves to www in Firefox and without in Chrome
I am guessing this is being caused by my nginx configuration, however I can not quite figure out how to troubleshoot in order to resolve.
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 with a LEMP stack to host a wordpress ...
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Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page dashboard
I changed my DNS nameservers to CloudFlare from my hosting DNS nameservers and when I logged in to my WordPress dashboard it shows an error message "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.". ...
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WordPress site isn’t reachable after site & home URL modification
First of all the technical details:
OrangePi Zero (512Mb)
Debian for Orange Pi
Apache2
PHP5
MYSQL
Wordpress
I have at home an OrangePi and I installed a WordPress on it. I registered a DNS name (...
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External Domain on Wordpress Multisite
I have a new wordpress multisite install. I want to point an external domain to a specific site on this install. I'm using the WP mu domain mapping plugin. I'm hosting on Godaddy cpanel.
Things I've ...
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The easiest way to migrate a wordpress website across servers
Having practised mirroring an existing wordpress site, I'm ready to migrate my website to a new server. Having simplified the steps necessary to do this, I'm hoping the following will work without ...
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Wordpress Multisite + Erros with URLS and ADMIN
Greetings Stackexchange.
Recently i have made a new WP site for a client - which is not a multisite.
Without my knowlegde their previous site was a multisite. The site i have made is a new edition ...
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WordPress site front page fails to load in IE
Disclaimer: I'm a front-end guy dabbling in back-end work.
I have WordPress serving up a company Intranet site on a CentOS VM in a multiple vhost setup (LAMP). It resides at http://intranet.domain....
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Does WordPress Strip Away the WWW from a Web Address
I installed a website and apparently the external DNS all worked fined to access the site: http://example.com
The problem was that internally, when on their network, they couldn't access the site, ...
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Moving a wordpress.org website to another domain name?
I currently have a wordpress.org website on a server with a specific domain name. I would like to move it all to a server with another domain name as I have changed my company name.
What is the best ...
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Change URL when visiting wordpress site
I have a wordpress site being hosted by an Apache server and I have a domain name set up to forward to the ip address of that server. However whenever I use the domain name to visit the site, the ...
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Redirecting DNS without breaking everything
I have a wordpress installation at a location in the form: www.mydomain.com/mysite.
I would like to redirect the DNS such that the address will (always!) appear as mysite.com.
I own both domain ...
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Developing on localhost remove "index.php"
I am trying to develop Wordpress on my local Ubuntu laptop.
On the remote production and staging servers, I can access a page like this via the browser:
http://remoteDomain.com/somepage/
On my ...
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DNS - Change Wordpress Site Name?
I'm about to make a site go live, but I realized that Wordpress assigned the website name as the IP address under settings. When I try to change it, the website errors out. When I've tried to change ...
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Installing other applications alongside WordPress multisite and configuring dns routing
I have configured a subdomain on my server and in DNS at my registrar as I have done many times. I don't want this particular subdomain to use my multisite WordPress install but all requests are being ...
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VServer/Rootserver/Shared Hosting: Multiple WordPress installations each having their unique domain?
Hello I think this is a beginner question, but I just do not know how to achieve this:
Imagine the following:
/public_html/ [Domain = foo.com]
/public_html/wp_subproject1/ [Domain = bar.com]
/...
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wordpress domain setup with ec2 apache
I'm struggling to get my WP domains to display correctly. I'm using ec2 apache with a domain from namecheap.
In namecheap, I've done the "pointing," putting my elastic IP for both the @ and www, and ...
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Understanding how links will work when DNS changed to point to new WordPress site
Please can someone help me to clarify what issues i might have when the hosting company changes the DNS settings to point away for the current old site (basic html) and to the new WordPress version of ...
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wp-admin keeps forwarding me to an old url
So here's the general situation:
I have been developing an update for an existing website, let's call it domain name "example.com".
The url I have been using for development is "...
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When i try to enter subdomain i'm redirected to main domain
I have wordpress site on my server connected to domain.pl and i also have my own html site connected to subdomain.domain.pl but every time i try to enter subdomain.domain.pl it redirects me to domain....
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Change my URL from https://www.domain.com to https://domain.com
I have migrated my site to Godaddy and Installed WordPress, but it get installed on https://www.domain.com on previous hosting it was simply on https://doamin.com.
Now I am having problem as some ...
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Correct Way to Move WordPress to Subdomain and Shop to Stay at root Domain
I have a WordPress website with WooCommerce configured. The root domain xyz.com is set to the shop but the blog is at xyz.com/blog. Now I want to move the blog to blog.xyz.com and keep the shop at the ...
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WordPress WooCommerce email notifications going to spam folder
I have just built a new WordPress site for a client, and repointed the domain's (mellowmarshfarm.com) DNS records to the new hosting service, Flywheel.
The client's custom email address is hosted by a ...
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On a multisite environment, get the subdomain value as variable
I'm trying to setup a multisite where everytime a new site is added, a DNS record is also added in Cloudflare.
So far, the code is working but I'm having troubles trying to parse the subdomain value ...
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Subdirectory mapping for a WordPress website
I have created a website on WordPress. Now I want to create a subdirectory mapping such that
mywordpress-site.com/french
points to
mywordpress-site.com
How could I do this? Is this possible with ...
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My blog load time on Bluehost and Word press is too much. I have slipped in Google Search Ranking
My blog organic traffic has fallen significantly due to long load times and 50+ DNS requests from Server.
My site https://www.how2havefun.com/ loading time is more than 7 seconds.
I have Blue Host and ...
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Wordpress Redirects to a cancelled domain, need to change it but can't get to the admin portal
I am working with a WordPress site on AWS wherein the site was mapped to a specific domain. That domain has long since been sold and canceled, so I want to change the domain to something else to ...
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Domain not redirected correctly with Wordpress Multisite
My Wordpress multisite installation uses two sites:
Site 1: www.myexample.com
Site 2: blog.myexample.com
In addition, I own a second domain myexample2.com, which I would like to redirect to the ...
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Image links broken / "DNS Update Required" message
absolute mess of a WP migration.
The basic breakdown of this problem is that I have a collection of images from old blog posts that are not loading, but the posts themselves are. I have, at best, a ...
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Fresh install redirects to www, breaking page loads
I set up a new Wordpress site, wanderandponder.com, on DigitalOcean yesterday. It was on a droplet that also ran several other Wordpress sites, without conflict. However, when accessing the domain, it ...
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How to properly setup MAMP and XIP
I have a local WordPress install running through MAMP. It's local domain is example.dev
I also have the install working with xip.io. It's at example.dev.0.0.0.0.xip.io (0's being my ip address).
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All devices on my network redirect me to an old domain
I have moved my website from wordpress.com to a wordpress.org platform. I ordered a new host, meanwhile keeping the old domain. It have been a day since the dns servers were updated and according to ...
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White Homepage after Domain Name Change
I've done a fair bit of searching and I see that WSOD is common upon changing your domain, however all the fixes I've gone through have not remedied my situation.
My new domain is http://uncvrd.co (...
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Problem With DNS or Wordpress installation>
So I added an addon domain in cpanel. Before I had registered this domain through a hosting company, so I just changed the DNS at their site pointing to my new location(siteground). Also I used the ...
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Wordpress MU with subdomain
I have done a Network installation on marklab.eu. I've choose subdomain mode because i wolud like to create a subdomain like blog.marklab.eu
I've already install the Domain Mappin plugin.
This is ...
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Redirect loop when forwarding to mobile site
I have successfully redirected my page to m.example.com from example.com when i open in mobile environment with this code in functions.php
add_action('template_redirect', 'redirecting_to_mobile_site'...
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Why is the server response time slowing my site down? [closed]
My site is www.phoenixwave.com
When I use Pingdom speed test and Google's speed test both give me the conclusion that my server response time is ridiculously slow...I'm using a Rackspace server.
I'm ...
