Thanks Scott M.

So far I've changed the primary domain name. At the moment when I click on the new url which is associated with my wordpress installation it just takes me to a white page with the old url, servername and ip address. I can't get to my Wordpress dashboard at the moment. Does this mean the new url pointing hasn't yet propagated over to webhostinghub? Should I just wait a few hours and try again, or has something gone wrong? :(

Thanks.
Sholly

Hi again Scott and Arnel.

The new url has now had longer than 24 hours to get to your nameservers. I've updated my primary url to xyz.com and changed the wordpress installation so the wp web address is now xyz.com and the admin is xyz.com/wp-admin (the database names etc are unchanged). I've also cleared the cache in the browser history.

however, when I click on the wp-admin icon i still get a white page with your logo on it and the server name and IP address. The url in the top of the page is abc.com which is the old url that I don't want to use anymore.

Can you help please? When I've done a similar thing before, using domains bought from 1and1 and pointed them to the IP address of a hosting company I've never had any problems. Not sure what is going on here.

Thanks
Shola

Hi,

I have removed the redirect as I think it was confusing the issue. Let's forget about it for now.

I still have a problem. I don't want my new domain xyz.com to be an addon. I want it to be my primary domain and to have only a single wordpress installation which users can reach by typing xyz.com. I don't want them to see abc.com (the original web address) when they get there. I don't plan to use the abc.com address at all.

Any suggestions as to why, even though I've added xyz.com to the wordpress install and have added it as my primary domain, it doesn't work?

Thanks

OK, thanks Jeff. Sorry, I'm a novice in these matters.

So I guess I should revert to the old primary domain and back up my data before the new installation?

So the steps are:

install a new version of wordpress for the new primary domain?

And how will I tell wordpress where all my current database files are once I do the install with the new domain?

Cheers.

OK thanks, whereabouts exactly in the config file do I add this info? I spoke with tech support today and they mentioned having to rebuild the config file for CPanel. When I looked at the file it contained this line:

define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'abc.com');

where 'abc.com' is the original url I want to get rid of and replace with xyz.com

If I put xyz.com in the same place will it fix the problem? if not then do I just paste

define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');

anywhere in the file?

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Tech support had said they'd made changes to the file and they would take 4+ hours to propagate but I'm not seeing how the file is any different. I'm not a coder of course.

Thanks for your advice.

Shollly

OK, I did as suggested and change the site to blockbusterbride.com but when I went to click on wp-admin to edit the site I got this message:
Error establishing database connection
Could not find site blockbusterbride.com. Searched for table sbw1blogs in database songbe5_sbw1. Is that right?

Any ideas?