Recovering site without DNS

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    alexanderrcohen · Member ·

    There’s a project I ran for a little while some years ago that had its own domain name, but was stored in a subdirectory of my Bluehost shared host. The domain registration for the project has expired, but the data is still on the server; my main personal domain name still works.

    I would like to retrieve the data and perhaps re-upload it to a new domain or copy the posts from the project blog to my personal blog.

    When I go to http://arclights.net/artofliberty (arclights.net is my personal domain; artofliberty is the subdirectory for the old project), I see a broken version of the homepage from the project. But when I click on the links for individual posts, I don’t see the posts, because it looks for them on artofliberty.com, which doesn’t exist anymore. Even when I copy the URLs of those links, paste them into my browser’s address bar, and substitute “arclights.net/artofliberty” for “artofliberty.com,” I can’t open the pages. Nor can I log in to the site.

    Can anyone please suggest a way to retrieve this data without getting the artofliberty.com domain name back? I’m pretty sure the data is still there, since nothing has happened to arclights.net; it’s just a question of extracting the data from the WordPress files.

    The host is Bluehost, and I can access the Bluehost control panel for arclights.net, including a file explorer.

    Thank you!

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Please contact Bluehost support for help with this, or else you can try asking in the forums for the open source WordPress software that you were using with Bluehost:

    https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

    WordPress.com is a hosting provider who uses our own customized version of the WordPress software, and we can only help with sites that are hosted on our servers.

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    alexanderrcohen · Member ·

    Thanks for clarifying this site’s relationship with WordPress. I went to the actual WordPress site, and it turns out this question was asked and answered there.

    https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-access-to-domain-how-to-access-site-admin/

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