Transfer to existing domain

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  elenamacd · Member · Dec 16, 2014 at 10:36 am

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  I have an existing website domain which is privately hosted. I would like to transfer my new wordpress site to this existing website address and use my existing host too. What information does wordpress need from my host/server to transfer the database over? And how do I go about doing this?

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 17, 2014 at 6:15 am

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  This guide will step you through the process of moving your site to a WordPress.org instance:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  As we only support sites hosted here at WordPress.com, all issues with the new site – including the importing of the file – must be taken to the WordPress.org support community:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  If you’d like assistance moving your WordPress.com site to WordPress.org, we have a service called Guided Transfer that does all the work for you. Check it out to see if it’s right for you:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/guided-transfer/