Getting my blog published (publicly accessible on internet)

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    hilarymanning81 · Member ·

    I have gone through the WordPress tutorial, and set up the basic structure of my website/blog. I have six pages, all of which I have ‘published’. But I cannot access my website publicly, and my friend could not also access it when I asked if they could check.

    I have registered a specific domain name, which is hosted by cheapdomains.com.au. They have mapped it so that it will forward to my wordpress site. I have also mapped my wordpress domain to go to my .com website.

    This is the current mapping:

    (Cheapdomains)

    DNS Service
    App Setup | Web Forward | Email Forward | Records

    Web Forwards http://www.hilarymanning.com › http://hilarymanning.wordpress.com Modify

    hilarymanning.com › http://hilarymanning.wordpress.com Modify

    (Email from Cheapdomains – is there a redirect loop problem?)

    We have re-setup the connection of your domain as we have detected a redirect loop in your domain. Please make sure that you have not created any domain forwarding in your account with wordpress to avoid this loop.
    Please give it another 2-4 hours to be able to see the website and please do not forget to publish your website from your wordpress account.

    (WordPress domain mapping)
    Primary Domain Status
    Primary Domain
    http://www.hilarymanning.com
    Status
    Renews on October 17, 2015

    Domain
    hilarymanning.wordpress.com
    Status
    Never expires
    Default blog address

    Otherwise, when I am in dashboard, it says all my pages have been published.

    What do I need to do to get them to show publicly?

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

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    hilarymanning81 · Member ·

    Help please! :)

  • Unknown's avatar
    raincoaster · Member ·

    Forwarding and mapping are different things. Did you purchase the domain mapping upgrade from WordPress.com? It will not work until you do.

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    hilarymanning81 · Member ·

    Thanks for your help!

    Yes, I did, and I just went back to re-confirm that I had (Yes, I have the receipt, the debit on my bankcard, and it’s listed in My Upgrades).

    My Upgrades, Domain Mapping, I have just discovered says: ‘DNS needs to be updated’.

    Would this be the problem? What does this mean and how do I fix it?

    Thank you!! H

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Yes, that is the problem. Here are the instructions.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#instructions-for-mapping-an-existing-domain

  • Unknown's avatar
    hilarymanning81 · Member ·

    Thank you again.

    I have already mapped my domain http://www.hilarymanning.com to My Domains. This now shows up as my Primary Domain in the My Domains section.

    I don’t have an email address attached to it, so there should be no need to edit DNS records for that.

    But to edit DNS records for my primary domains, I cannot find the Domain Management/Edit DNS menu on my site.

    I’m reading through the Custom DNS support website, just without this menu, I can’t do what it suggests

    I’m sorry, I would love this to be straightforward for me!

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    hilarymanning81 · Member ·

    Thanks! Problem all solved now!

    As it turned out, my domain was mapped incorrectly. I cancelled the domain, and re-mapped it correctly. Which meant that I could then access the Edit/Domain Management menu. And then from there correctly update my DNS Server, both with WordPress and with my registrar. My website went live this morning!

    Thank you – really helpful!

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    Good, I’m glad you got it sorted. Domains are fiddly.

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