Domain issue

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  harvardblonde · Member · Jun 30, 2017 at 10:57 am

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  Hi,

  I recently switched from a WordPress.com account (www.theharvardblonde.com) to a WordPress.org account (http://37.60.235.206/~theharva/). When I tried to change my domain name on my new .org site to the original name, somehow I lost access to my new site and I can only see my old site.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jun 30, 2017 at 11:58 am

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  Hi there,

  Do you mean you tried changing the domain in Settings ->General in the new site’s dashboard? Doing that on a self-hosted WordPress site just breaks the site and locks you out of the dashboard.

  You will need to contact the hosting provider for your new site to help you fix this, as only they have the necessary access to do that.

  For future reference, you can find the correct steps for changing the domain on a self-hosted WordPress site here:

  https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL