domain mapping confusion

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  geoffobowral · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 7:06 am

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  I have a wordpress account: geoffobowral. I have an old (primary) blog attached to that account at http://geoffobowral.wordpress.com. It is mapped to a domain hosted by JustHost: http://www.something2ponder.com. I want to start a new blog (under this same WordPress account). On 3 April I purchased domain registration and domain mapping for http://www.geoffandjan.com. I then started a new blog under my account which is showing up as geoffandjan.wordpress.com. I want to map that blog to geoffandjan.com, but when I type http://www.geoffandjan.com into a browser I end up at http://www.something2ponder.com rather than being mapped to http://www.geoffandjan.wordpress.com. How do I fix this mapping please?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 5, 2015 at 3:29 pm

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  Not a problem!

  I’ve got that fixed for you. http://www.geoffandjan.com should now point to http://www.geoffandjan.wordpress.com.

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  geoffobowral · Member · Apr 5, 2015 at 11:32 pm

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  Thanks a lot for your help …
  I can see in the “My Domains” section for the two blogs that you have that sorted now. So I eagerly jumped onto Chrome, flushed the cache and typed in “geoffandjan.com”, but up came the “something2ponder” blog … Hmmm … do I have to wait for DNS to propagate, or am I missing something else here?

  I think(?) it gets worse … when I go to “My Sites”, switch sites to the new geoffandjan site, and “view site”, I get the “something2ponder” blog

  Seems something isn’t quite right yet?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 5, 2015 at 11:47 pm

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  When I go to geoffandjan.com, I see geoffandjan.wordpress.com.

  Can you try a different browser? I know you said that you cleared the cache, but I have to believe that this is a browser issue given that everything looks fine on my end from the front and backend views.

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  geoffobowral · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 12:31 am

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  That’s weird …

  You are right It works fine on IE and on Firefox … but on Chrome and on Safari on Jan’s MacAir (which are the the two I tested before my last posting), I’m still getting the behaviour described in that last posting …

  … any suggestions on how that can be fixed (or will fix itself)?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 6, 2015 at 12:50 am

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  Clearing cache and giving it another 24 hours is my usual advice.

  Testing with my browsers, they all show geoffandjan.com pointing to the correct location.

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  geoffobowral · Member · Apr 6, 2015 at 1:15 am

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  Thanks …

  I have just cleared the browsing history in Safari on the Mac and it is now working …

  However, having done the same with Chrome on my Win PC, it’s still not working … so I’ll give it a rest for 24 hours, clear the cache again tomorrow and let you know how I go …

  Thanks again for your help …

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 6, 2015 at 2:09 am

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  No problem.

  Let me know the result.

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  geoffobowral · Member · Apr 7, 2015 at 1:12 am

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  First try this morning was negative … so I had to delve deep into the process of killing Chrome’s “memory” and settings (browsing history, cache, etc) … and kept re-trying … eventually it worked … can’t put my finger exactly on what step did it, but now I’m all good …

  Thanks again …

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Apr 7, 2015 at 1:18 am

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  Bummer that it was such a hassle.

  But I’m glad to hear you got it sorted.