Switching to self-hosted blog

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  farawayflyfishing · Member · Apr 5, 2010 at 8:17 pm

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  Hello All,

  I have had a wordpress.com blog for over a year now, and I have always had it mapped to blog.mydomain.com

  I would now like to self-host the blog, and I have a couple of questions.

  1: I already turned-off the domain mapping in my wordpress.com control panel and deleted it. However, when I go to blog.mydomain.com, it says: “Warning! Domain mapping upgrade for this domain not found. Please login and go to the Domains Upgrades page of your blog to use this domain.” I can’t install wordpress on blog.mydomain.com because it keeps redirecting.

  Do i have to do delete the custom CNAME in the DNS settings on in my host?

  Lastly, when I was experimenting transfering to blog I was having lots of problems with the internal links not matching. Does anyone have a good way to upload the blog while preserving the internal links?

  Thanks!

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  dreamsburnred · Member · Apr 5, 2010 at 8:27 pm

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  Yes you have to delete the CNAME has its still pointing to here. Make sure though that a A record points it to your host.

  Yes, in settings, change perma links to include month and day. (Day and name http://blah.com/2010/04/05/sample-post/

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  farawayflyfishing · Member · Apr 5, 2010 at 8:50 pm

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  I’ve already done all that, but still points to wordpress.com How long does it take?

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  dreamsburnred · Member · Apr 5, 2010 at 8:51 pm

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  Can take up to 24 hours.

  Try and see what OpenDNS spits out.

  http://www.opendns.com/support/cache/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 5, 2010 at 9:33 pm

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  Actually it can in some cases take up to 72 hours for the propagation through all the internet nameservers to complete. Generally it has been taking about 24-48 lately, but it can take longer. Just be patient and it will get there.

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  007marketer · Member · Apr 5, 2010 at 10:32 pm

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  I’m considering getting my own URL from Go Daddy, were I all ready have one for my website, can I use only one URL and have my pages link together using one domain name?

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 5, 2010 at 10:37 pm

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  I’m not quite following that. Could you give us specific examples, with URLs?

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  007marketer · Member · Apr 6, 2010 at 3:10 pm

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  OK…
  Can I use the same domain name for multiple WP blog sites?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 6, 2010 at 8:07 pm

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  @007marketer
  I am not aware of any way to domain map multiple wordpress.com root blogs to a single domain, and I cannot find anything in support documentation that deals with this issue. I think you should pose your question to Staff http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/