Domain mapping

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  tmcalhan · Member · Oct 3, 2012 at 11:21 pm

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  I have an existing website hosted on a private server for which I purchased the following domain – http://www.mcalhaney.com. I then setup a wordpress blog and in the cpanel on the other server set http://www.mcalhaney.com to redirect to my wordpress blog. I decided to cut out the middle man and go only with wordpress so I upgraded to the Domain Mapping feature for $13. I am something of a novice, but I thought that this meant that my wordpress site would be accessible via http://www.mcalhaney.com and mcalhaney.wordpress.com. This does not seem to be the case – http://www.mcalhaney.com is going to my old site on the old server and mcalhaney.wordpress.com does not work at all.

  Help!

  Thanks,

  Tim
  Blog url: http://mcalhaney.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Oct 3, 2012 at 11:25 pm

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  Your domain’s name servers are still not pointed to us.

  Per the guide at http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/ they need to be:

  NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
  NS3.WORDPRESS.COM

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  tmcalhan · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 2:25 am

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  macmanx: Thanks . . . believe I’ve made the correct changes now! :-)

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  tmcalhan · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 3:00 am

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  Looks like the changes I made at web.com have taken effect. I do have one follow-up question, though. Should I be seeing http://www.mcalhaney.com or mcalhaney.wordpress.com in the address field? I’m seeing latter. Since I’ve applied my domain name to the blog, I thought it would somehow shift to actually showing the domain name. Am I missing something?

  Thanks,

  Tim

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  tmcalhan · Member · Oct 4, 2012 at 3:03 am

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  Never mind . . . I just figured it out! :-)

  Relieved to have this transition behind me. Now I just hope and pray that my switch to Google App email works!

  Tim