Altering DNS settings to point to external host

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  wherenextphotography · Member · Sep 14, 2010 at 9:02 pm

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  Hi Everyone,

  I currently have my proto-blog hosted on the WordPress.com servers. I want to move it to my externally hosted domain (Hostpapa) and have been following the excellent walk-through guide here: http://onlinemarketerblog.com/2009/03/how-to-integrate-a-wordpress-blog-with-hostpapa-hosting/

  I want to move this onto externally hosted servers and have bought a domain name (wherenextphotography.com) and paid for hosting through Hostpapa.

  I’m stuck at the final stage whereby I essentially notify wordpress that my blog is now hosted externally and therefore has different DNS settings. The only help I can find in the support pages tells me how to change my registrar’s DNS settings to point to the WordPress servers, not the other way round. I have seen some posts indicating that this should be available in “Domain Management” but I think this option might only be available if you register the domain through WordPress and I’ve already registered mine!!

  Any help would be masively appreciated!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 14, 2010 at 10:10 pm

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  You will need to buy the domain mapping upgrade and then use the trick explained in the following support document to redirect to your new self-hosted blog.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/redirecting-your-blog/

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 14, 2010 at 10:10 pm

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  Not my strong suite, but this looks like this should do the trick: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/redirecting-your-blog/

  Good luck

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  auxclass · Member · Sep 14, 2010 at 10:12 pm

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  @TSP – should have known better than to try and type faster than you :)