joining my wordpress.com to my wordpress.org

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  rupertcritchley · Member · Jan 3, 2014 at 2:14 pm

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  Ok so I’ve spent hours on this and as someone who does not create websites for a living it’s become far more complex then I can understand right now so I need help.

  Ok so I created a site with wordpress.org (installed) and wanted to link it to my pre existing wordpress.com site so I started following these steps below

  Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we will use /wordpress in our examples). (On linux, use mkdir wordpress from your www directory. You’ll probably want to use “chown apache:apache” on the wordpress directory you created.)
  Go to the General panel.
  In the box for WordPress address (URL): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files. Example: http://example.com/wordpress
  In the box for Site address (URL): change the address to the root directory’s URL. Example: http://example.com
  Click Save Changes. (Do not worry about the error message and do not try to see your blog at this point! You will probably get a message about file not found.)

  As soon as I did the last step it asked me to log into wordpress.com and now I cant find anything or even get back into my original wordpress.org site.

  Anyone got an advice?

  The rest of the message says

  Copy (NOT MOVE!) the index.php and .htaccess files from the WordPress directory into the root directory of your site (Blog address). The .htaccess file is invisible, so you may have to set your FTP client to show hidden files. If you are not using pretty permalinks, then you may not have a .htaccess file. If you are running WordPress on a Windows (IIS) server and are using pretty permalinks, you’ll have a web.config rather than a .htaccess file in your WordPress directory. For the index.php file the instructions remain the same, copy (don’t move) the index.php file to your root directory. The web.config file, must be treated differently then the .htaccess file so you must MOVE (DON’T COPY) the web.config file to your root directory.
  Open your root directory’s index.php file in a text editor
  Change the following and save the file. Change the line that says:
  require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ );
  to the following, using your directory name for the WordPress core files:
  require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’ );
  Login to the new location. It might now be http://example.com/wordpress/wp-admin/
  If you have set up Permalinks, go to the Permalinks panel and update your Permalink structure. WordPress will automatically update your .htaccess file if it has the appropriate file permissions. If WordPress can’t write to your .htaccess file, it will display the new rewrite rules to you, which you should manually copy into your .htaccess file (in the same directory as the main index.php file.)

  But I don’t understand this and can’t work it out on my own.

  Some help would be great!

  Cheers,

  Rupert

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  staff-totoro · Staff · Jan 4, 2014 at 12:00 am

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  Hi there,

  Unfortunately, support staff at WordPress.com do not have access to your self-hosted site’s files or the ability to provide direct support.

  You can find support for your self-hosted WordPress site here:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  http://codex.wordpress.org/

  You may also wish to contact your host’s support team for more assistance.