Why is my domain still mapped to WordPress/redirecting?

  • Unknown's avatar
    electrickiwidesign · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I’m in the process of setting up a new self-hosted WP installation for faroutmagazine.co.uk for user leethomas23.

    Currently the domain is mapped to the farout1.wordpress.com site but I have cancelled this from the wordpress.com side of things and have updated the DNS at the registrar’s end.

    I have set up a page at http://faroutmagazine.co.uk which will redirect the user to http://farout1.wordpress.com while I build the site in a /wp directory.

    However somehow, the faroutmagazine.co.uk domain brings me to an error page on the WordPress.com site (saying that faroutmagazine.wordpress.com has already been registered) on some browers – on my iPhone, I just get a redirect loop.

    Is there something further that needs to be done to disconnect the faroutmagazine.co.uk domain from the WordPress.com account?

    Thanks,
    Ross ((email visible only to moderators and staff))

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  • Unknown's avatar
    auxclass · Member ·

    It can take a few hours for changes to take effect –

    I have flagged this for the staff to help

    I was correctly redirected after I allowed my browser to accept the redirect to farout1.wordpress.com.

    The domain mapping needs to be canceled, but it sounds like you did that – and my browser acted like you do have it canceled

    Have you tried clearing your caches?

  • Unknown's avatar
    electrickiwidesign · Member ·

    Hi @auxclass,

    Thanks for your reply.

    I thought it might just be a case of taking a while to take effect. I’ve cleared my caches and it does work in Firefox (which is the main browser I use), but Chrome & Safari just give me that WordPress.com error and Safari on iPhone just gives me a redirect loop.

    Hoping the staff are able to shed some light on this!

    Thanks again,
    Ross

  • Unknown's avatar
    auxclass · Member ·

    You be welcome

    depending on the changes (name servers for instance) it can take 24 to 72 hours for changes to reach the far corners of the internet – and since you never visit a site with the exact same route on the internet (load balancing) – you can bump into a router that is not updated yet

  • Unknown's avatar
    electrickiwidesign · Member ·

    Yeah – I do DNS changes etc quite often, but doing one via an existing WordPress.com site is a new experience for me!

    It appears to be catching up a little bit though – now working on my iPhone via 3G and after clearing caches again, it’s working in Safari (but still not in Chrome).

    I suspect it’ll just take a few more hours to be working across all of them. DNS updates always make me a little anxious, but it does look like things are going to plan now :)

    Thanks again.

  • Unknown's avatar
    auxclass · Member ·

    You be welcome

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