Setting up a blog to resolve via the domain name as opposed to an IP

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    mariodecristofano · Member ·

    Guys,

    Please don’t flame me, I’m not sure if even this is the right forum. I host & run self-installed WP blogs, but in this instance I’m desperate for some help.

    I have a virtual server, via Digital Ocean setup running the latest version of WordPress.

    Here’s my environment;
    Digital Ocean Ubuntu 14.04LTS droplet VPS
    PHP Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.0.3, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies
    mySQL Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.5.37, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.3

    The site binds correctly via its IP, and I’ve setup Permalinks to be in the format domain/sample-post

    I also have a domain set up via Digital Ocean, and that directs to the blog, so mariodecristofanosblog.com correctly points to the WP install.

    So what I want to do now is to ensure the site fully resolves via domain name, and not IP. So posts and such like change from 178.62.47.214/my-post to mariodecristofanosblog.com/my-post.

    I’m technical. But I’m missing something, I’d really love some help.

    I modified the wp-posts sql database via PHPMyadmin to replace all instances of the IP with the full domain name. I used an online tool, to avoid serialization issues and I made sure to only touch the wp-posts database.

    I then changes the site URL and home URL settings (General > Settings) to be mariodecristofanosblog.com as opposed to the IP

    Finally, I then FTP’ed in and moved the files from the root (www) into a folder called mariodecristofansblog.com

    The above is basically a short summary of all the online guides which are available to achieve this. I’m doing something wrong or I’m missing something because I just can’t get this to work.

    Could someone please please please help!?

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    timethief · Member ·

    I host & run self-installed WP blogs

    Hi there,
    This is the WordPress.COM support forum. You need to post to the WordPress.ORG support forum for help with your site because it is not hosted by WordPress.COM.

    WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate and have different logins http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

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