ww.wp.xz.cn admin redirects to WordPress.com

  • tamias

    (@tamias)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve been searching for answers all over the web and the forums for days, but can’t seem to figure out how to solve my problem. Here’s the issue:

    I’m moving from a wordpress.com blog with it’s own domain (thestylesample.com) to self-hosted wordpress on GoDaddy, which also happens to be where the domain is registered. I’ve purchased hosting, installed WP, etc. and would like to do some “behind-the-scenes” work on the theme before the self-hosted version of my blog is publicly accessible.

    The problem is, whenever I try to access the admin for my WP.org blog at http://thestylesample.com/wp-admin, it always redirects me to the WP.com admin at http://thestylesample.wordpress.com/wp-admin.

    Some of the other posts I’ve read address the need to update the name servers to the GoDaddy hosting, but if I do that, will people be redirected to an empty blog? I haven’t had a chance to import my posts because I can’t access the WP.org admin!

    I’m getting extremely frustrated because I didn’t think it would be this complicated. On a techie scale of 1-10 I’m about a 2, so any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    You can’t run both blogs using the same domain name. You could ask GoDaddy if you can use a temporary IP address on the new blog and then change the site url to reflect this temporary address. Then, when you’re ready, remove the re-direct to the wordpress.com blog and change the self-hosted blog’s url back to the domain name again.

    http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Changing_The_Site_URL

    Thread Starter tamias

    (@tamias)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks for your response, esmi…so I need to set up the new blog on a different domain name.

    What would happen if I changed the name servers? Would a blank blog appear at stylesamplemag.com?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    so I need to set up the new blog on a different domain name.

    Yes. Or use an IP address for now.

    What would happen if I changed the name servers? Would a blank blog appear at stylesamplemag.com?

    Yes.

    davidlucero

    (@davidlucero)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    esmi (or anyone else), thanks for the response. So this was happening to me too, but I already had a ww.wp.xz.cn blog at http://www.pocoleon.com. I created a WordPress.com blog (pocoleon.wordpress.com) in order to have an OpenID.

    Creating the wordpress.com blog messed up my theme and admin link for my ww.wp.xz.cn blog.

    I deleted the pocoleon.wordpress.com blog, but it’s still messed up.

    Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.

    DL

    davidlucero

    (@davidlucero)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    UPDATE THE BLOG IS FIXED!!!
    I used http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Changing_The_Site_URL
    thanks for the help.

    The other question lingering in the back of my mind: “You can’t run both blogs using the same domain name” this seems ludicrous to me, but whatever.

    I’m just glad my site is working, so if you are reading this and are having issues with your site, feel free to shoot me a note.

    Thanks,
    DL

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