redirect wordpress.com to wordpress.org

westwoodlabradoodlesandgoldendoodles · Member · Dec 9, 2009 at 3:04 am
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Hi,

I’ve found articles that detail how to direct my wordpress.com blog to a wordpress.org blog on my website. When I go to the ‘upgrade’ and ‘domain’ section on the wordpress.com blog it asks me to enter the domain name for my wordpress.org blog, which Yahoo set up. I just clicked through their instructions and it was set up within my domain with the URL “http://www.westwoodlabradoodles.com/blog”.

But the domain upgrade system says I cannot direct my wp.com blog to a subdirectory….no slashes allowed. How can I correct this so I am able to redirect.

Thanks for any help,
Helene

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thesacredpath · Member · Dec 9, 2009 at 3:35 am
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WordPress.COM can redirect to TLD’s (top level domains) or to subdomains blog.mydomain.com, but they will not redirect to subdirectories such as mydomain.com/blog/ .
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 9, 2009 at 3:35 am
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http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/redirecting-your-blog/
westwoodlabradoodlesandgoldendoodles · Member · Dec 9, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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I get that, yes. How do I correct my structure so I can redirect?
husdal · Member · Dec 9, 2009 at 1:21 pm
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The techie answer is that you must create a CNAME record at your domain management system that redirects blog.westwoodlabradoodles.com to your blogname.wordpress.com. (It doesn’t have to be “blog”, it can be any subdommain name that you choose)
westwoodlabradoodlesandgoldendoodles · Member · Dec 9, 2009 at 6:09 pm
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I don’t want to direct TO wp.com. I want to direct the wp.com TO my wp.org hosted on my domain. There are very specific directions on how to do that, but I can’t even start as long as my blog is in a subdirectory of my domain. I don’t know how to reorganize the structure to get it out of a subdirectory.

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