Title: changing wordpress url
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# changing wordpress url

 *  Resolved [Rae Sengele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsengele/)
 * (@rsengele)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-url/)
 * So, I had a custom url set up with tumblr and I was using wordpress on the side.
   Well, now I want to change this, making the wordpress blog as the main site and
   tumblr as a side site. I changed the tumblr site to [user name].tumblr.com and
   moved everything wordpress from the old url to the “new” one. The problem is 
   that when I go to the url ([http://paperbacklover.net](http://paperbacklover.net))
   it takes me to a tumblr error page rather than the new wordpress page. How do
   I fix this? Do I need to change the permissions on the url or did I miss a step
   in moving everything over? Hope someone can help me out with this =)

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 *  [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/)
 * (@claytonjames)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-url/#post-3046061)
 * > So, I had a custom url set up with tumblr and I was using wordpress on the 
   > side
 * What exactly does that mean? You had wordpress installed in a sub-directory, 
   or on a tumblr sub-domain, or on different host?
 * Bottom line is that your domain name needs to now point directly to your wordpress
   location, wherever that might be. If it still points to the tumblr site, it’s
   going to 404.
 *  Thread Starter [Rae Sengele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsengele/)
 * (@rsengele)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-url/#post-3046118)
 * Yes, I had wordpress in a sub-domain on a different host.
    Can you tell me how
   to direct the domain from tumblr to wordpress? My host is freehostia if that 
   helps.
 *  Thread Starter [Rae Sengele](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsengele/)
 * (@rsengele)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-url/#post-3046155)
 * I figured it out with some digging in my host’s FAQ section. If anyone comes 
   across this with the same issue; look for your DNS records and you’re going to
   want to change the A record (the IP address). On freehostia they have an option
   to just reset the A record.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-wordpress-url/#post-3046155)
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