Title: Silly Beginner Question
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Silly Beginner Question

 *  [littlesthobo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/littlesthobo/)
 * (@littlesthobo)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/silly-beginner-question/)
 * Hi. I’ve just getting to grips with building my own wordpress sites and really
   enjoying wordpress, my test site is beginning to look just as I want it to.
 * This is more of a hosting/redirection question.
 * I have built my test website on [http://examplesubdomain.mytestdomainname.com](http://examplesubdomain.mytestdomainname.com)
 * My actuall website is currently [http://www.thegreenwoodtreegallery.com/](http://www.thegreenwoodtreegallery.com/)
 * My new lovely wordpress site is almost ready to go live but how do i point the
   domain address at my test site? I don’t want to do just a simple 301 redirect
   of the domain, because then it just shows my [http://examplesubdomain.mytestdomainname.com](http://examplesubdomain.mytestdomainname.com)
   in the address bar.
 * Do I need to actually rebuild (exporting all my wordpress files etc) onto my 
   domain? Or can I just point my preferred domain name at the location is has been
   built and keep the domain name in the address bar, along with the subfolders?
 * Does that make sense?
 * I set up and own all the domain accounts etc.
 * How do professional web design companies manage to flick over a new site from‘
   old site’ to ‘new site’ without needing to take down the domain name and rebuilding
   on the preferred domain name?

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 *  [amandastock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandastock/)
 * (@amandastock)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/silly-beginner-question/#post-3406681)
 * Try this article: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress)

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 * 1 reply
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 * Last reply from: [amandastock](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandastock/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/silly-beginner-question/#post-3406681)
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