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Does WordPress Strip Away the WWW from a Web Address
Wordpress will always redirect to the canonical URL of the content if you try to access a page not with its canonical url. If you installed wordpress without using a www then wordpress will assume ...
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Timeout While Upgrading Network in Multi-site
I was using WordPress Multisite for multiple TLDs.
Example:
domain.com
another-domain.org
sample-domain.net
The primary site was domain.com which was a valid registered domain name with proper ...
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Website redirecting to old domain name
There are a few variables that need to be changed in order for you to update to the new link on your WordPress site.
As mentioned by Mark, try the following steps using the Search Replace DB tool:
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Website redirecting to old domain name
@maximus: It's not a good idea to run raw SQL queries on the database via phpmyadmin; direct queries will will break serialized data in the database, i.e. break widget data, theme options, etc. Use ...
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How to test drive WordPress on VPS with LEMP stack before going live?
WordPress doesn't care much about IP address, it is mostly sensitive to domain name it is accessed by.
In your case you can access the test site if you make your local machine resolve domain to its ...
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Does WordPress Strip Away the WWW from a Web Address
As far as I know it goes by what you define in your settings. If you was to add www. to the Site URL and the WordPress address it should work. I just tested it on one of my sites removing the www and ...
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Wordpress multisite with different domain
I believe that you have to go to the Network Admin (the 'master' admin), then Sites, then mouse over the site you wish to change, select Edit. So the process is not done from the sub-site's Dashboard, ...
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Wordpress multisite with different domain
You shouldn't need to change the site URL in the WordPress config. You should be able to just tell the new site that its URL is mysonsite.com.
Here's how you would do it:
Create a new site in your ...
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cant access website thru www only works on direct xyz.com
if anyone got stuck with this same issue, it turned out for me that i need to add a type A record with Name www and Value server ip address on the DNS configuration
thanks @rudtek for pointing it out!
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Change URL when visiting wordpress site
What configuration have you got in your Settings > General? Make sure your Wordpress Address and Site Address refer to your url and not the IP Address.
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Multisite domain naming
If you have control of the DNS settings for "notmydomain.com", then sure. A subsite can be under a completely different domain if you want.
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Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page dashboard
Try to deactivate all your activated plugins :) mainly your security plugins installed like wordfence.
Check your .htaccess file, and your .htaccess file should look like -
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# BEGIN WordPress
<...
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Redirecting DNS without breaking everything
1) You have to change all references of www.mydomain.com to mysite.com in WP. WP will only respond to the hostname/url that it was configured for. If you make a request with a different url, WP will ...
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how to get my WP site's IP?
This is more a general hosting question, rather than WordPress.
Nonetheless, since you mentioned that you have your website on WordPress.com, you can have your new domain point to your WordPress site ...
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Developing on localhost remove "index.php"
What you have locally is called PATHINFO permalinks. It is quite rare configuration since permalinks are either "pretty" (what you have live) or "ugly" (no rewrite at all, GET requests).
It is hard ...
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DNS - Change Wordpress Site Name?
You need to update all the places in the database that are using the original location. you can use the following tool to do so. There are others but I have found this one to be easy. Just remember to ...
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Installing other applications alongside WordPress multisite and configuring dns routing
codecowboy has reports in the comments for this question that the issue has been resolved:
Running a2ensite resolved the problemm so presumably I had done
something wrong with my Apache config.
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