How do I point my domain name to my Wordpress blog?
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Developing your own online blog can be done using an online facility such as, http://wordpress.com/.
If you have an already registered domain with Hetzner, you may want to point your domain to your newly created blog instead of using the default, mydomain.wordpress.com, that is created by this online facility. This process is called Domain Mapping.
Notes:
- Your old WordPress.com address (i.e mydomain.wordpress.com) will still work as the Domain Mapping will simply forward requests to your Wordpress.com blog.
- Domain Mapping with Wordpress.com is a paid upgrade, that needs to be configured on your Wordpress.com account. You can map as many domains as you want to one blog, but you have to pay for each domain separately.
To map an existing domain hosted with Hetzner to your newly created WordPress.com blog, please follow one of the steps below:
Pointing your entire domain directly to your blog in order to allow users to only view your blog when browsing to your website:
The DNS authoritative name servers will need to be updated to make use of the name servers provided by Wordpress.com as seen below.
NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
In order to update your domain to the above authoritative DNS name servers, you will need to forward this request to our Administration department via an email request to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The domain mapping will remain incomplete until you complete the above step.
Note: The authoritative DNS name servers cannot be updated for the following TLD‘s: co.za and org.za
Pointing a sub domain to your Wordpress.com blog, i.e blog.mywebsite.co.za (this applies to all TLD’s):
- Access your DNS records in konsoleH
- Add a CNAME DNS record type with a ‘hostname’ of your choosing, i.e blog, and the destination set as your WordPress.com supplied URL, i.e mydomain.wordpress.com. Please ensure to end your destination with a full stop, i.e mydomain.wordpress.com.
- The final result being as follows:
Hostname Record type Destination
blog CNAME mywebsite.wordpress.com. - Once your record has been added, you will need to login on your WordPress.com account and select ‘Store’ then ‘Domains’ and then add your sub domain to your account.
- After you have added the sub domain to your account, go back to ‘Store’, then ‘Domains’ and select the radio button next to your custom sub domain, and click the Update Primary Domain button.
Notes:
- Your blog URL provided by WordPress.com will remain unaffected after these changes, i.e mywebsite.wordpress.com will still be usable my your clients.
- Mapping of the “www” DNS entry is not supported by WordPress.com without updating the DNS name servers.
For more information on the process outlined above, please visit the support website available on WordPress.com: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/
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