Title: Need help for redirection
Last modified: May 24, 2018

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# Need help for redirection

 *  [matiou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matiou/)
 * (@matiou)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-for-redirection/)
 * Hello,
    i want to have some explanation about redirection.. I already made many
   redirection from a http site to a https site..so i basically know how it works,
   but someone asked me a question and was not sure about the answer, i post it 
   here : i have a website for example mywebsite.com and i finally want to change
   the name of the domain to mywebsite.ca (just the domain, not the host or database)…
   i’m just asking myself, do i simply need to make 301 redirections as we do it
   for a http site to a https site for example, or do i need to reinstall all the
   wordpress files and folders and point it to the new url…? quite a stupid question
   but i wanted to be sure. i mean, if the new url is empty (no databse) it will
   work with redirection wright?? thank you

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 *  [HudsonValleyWebDesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaycbrf/)
 * (@jaycbrf)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-for-redirection/#post-10318490)
 * You would change the URL in the Admin section and point the URL to the site in
   your hosting cpanel
 *  Thread Starter [matiou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matiou/)
 * (@matiou)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-for-redirection/#post-10333271)
 * hello thank you very much.. in fact there is something i don’t understand well.
   I simply want to have a new domain name, but everything, core files and database
   remain the same and stay on the same host.
    In case i just want to change the
   domain name, i don’t need to move all my files to the new domain name with a 
   ftp(filezila)? do i need to make the redirection as we do for example for https?
   First i thought i needed to move all worpdress folders and file under the new
   domain name with ftp. And then make redirection in database, files and htacess..
   regarding your answer, i don’t need to make a 301 redirection ?
 *  [HudsonValleyWebDesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaycbrf/)
 * (@jaycbrf)
 * [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-for-redirection/#post-10336410)
 * If you are on the same host you can just point the domain to the site folder.
   You would not have to ftp anything.

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 * Last reply from: [HudsonValleyWebDesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaycbrf/)
 * Last activity: [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-for-redirection/#post-10336410)
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