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[nicwilliams]

Two questions that I have been searching for the answer for but have either not found one or have just been confused more.

1. I am using blogger for a blog. I recently switched hosting from powweb to blogger. I still use my powweb for some other stuff. I did something wrong though and I cant figure it out. www.nicwilliams.net goes to one site and nicwilliams.net goes to a different site. They are both mine but one is old and the other is the new one. How do I get nicwilliams.net to forward to www.nicwilliams.net.

2. I have another site hosted with powweb. the site is www.theveritas.org. How do I get that url to open up www.theveritas.org/wordpress. I want people to still type the first address but I want the other page to be the main site for a while. Any help would be great.

nic

[Autoload]

Answers:

1. Boog-a-loo DNS. You should not have the same domain hosted on two different servers unless you are clustering services, worried about a disaster, and you just cannot sleep unless you have geo-redundant web servers.

There is an error in your DNS. You need to the "www" alias and default domain host name (ncwilliams.net) to the correct host. Currently DNS shows the WWW alias going to another server. Log in to your domain registrar and fix your DNS entries. Hire someone if you do not understand.. it is very easy to hose your site.

T:\>nslookup nicwilliams.net
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: nicwilliams.net
Address: 65.254.250.112

T:\>nslookup www.nicwilliams.net
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ghs.l.google.com
Address: 74.125.47.121
Aliases: www.nicwilliams.net, ghs.google.com

2. Many ways......

a. No law that says wordpress has to be installed in the "wordpress" directory. Copy everything in to root of htdocs and update your config file. Once it is working correctly remove the "wordpress" directory.

b. Meta tag redirect - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=meta+tag+redirect&aq=f&oq=meta+tag+redirect

c. .htaccess redirect - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=.htaccess+301+redirect&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

d. PHP Redirect - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=php+redirect

Probably a few others, but any of these will get you rolling in the right direction.

[Croc Hunter]

For 2. You can easily point the domain to the wordpress Subfolder in OPS> Domains> Domain Pointing.