Site redirect to a self-hosted directoy
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Hi, I’m looking at the help and searching through forums but could not find a definitive answer to this.
A friend has a blog hosted in wordpress.com for his e-commerce site. He purchased a customer domain upgrade and is now at blog.example.com.
He now wants to host himself in a subdirectory in his site (www.example.com/blog) and redirect from wordpress.com.
Can that redirection be done through the ‘site redirect’ upgrade? If not, any ideas/reccomendations?
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Wait. We need the exact URL of your friend’s site, because it does not sound like a WP.com blog; we can’t do ecommerce.
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Sorry, I should have made it clearer: He has his site already self hosted, only the blog is in wordpress.com.
So:
His site, self-hosted: http://www.example.com
His blog, in wp.com: blog.example.comWhere he wants to put his blog, self-hosted: http://www.example.com/blog
Hope this clarifies.
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No, we need to know the URL of the WordPress.com blog. Not the rough format of the URL but the actual URL.
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I’ll check with him to see if he’s ok with it (although I’m not sure why the actual URL is needed, frankly).
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Ok, he’s fine with it, so here it is, now with realname(tm) :)
So:
His site, self-hosted: http://www.cocinista.es
His blog, in wp.com: http://blog.cocinista.es (paid custom domaing, real blog at http//blogcocinista.wordpress.com)Where he wants to put his blog, self-hosted: http://www.cocinista.es/blog
So he should redirect from http//blogcocinista.wordpress.com to http://www.cocinista.es/blog, but I am not sure if the ‘site redirect’ upgrade allows it.
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Yes, that should be doable. It’s exactly what the redirect is designed for. http://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/
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Great, thanks! As the redirect support page did not mention specifically subdirectories, I was not sure…
Is there a place where I could suggest to include and example with a subdirectory to the support page?
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