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Posted by bambinou, 10-12-2012, 05:27 PM Hi All, I have been turning around in circle for 2 days on this one.....I have no idea what to do. It is complicated. I have a domain, let's say : mydomain3.com Now my boss, has a mydomain2.com live, he asked me to set him up a business hosting shared server account and delete mydomain2.com website when I will create a replacement website. On my hosting provider cpanel, I could add an addon domain name, so I asked the hosting provider if I could design a new version of mydomain2.com on their server even if the domain was not fully propagated. The reason I am not creating the site on my local computer is because my boss want to access the site from time to time to see how good it looks.... My hosting provider support told me to first add a fully propagated domain as the main cpanel account and then add my addon domain(not propagated) to the cpanel. So now to access my new development url, I have to go to: http://domain3.com/domain2.com the domain3.com being a fully propagated domain..otherwise I would not have been able to access the domain2.com addon. Wordpress is installed on this url domain2.com folder(addon domain). When the domain will be fully propagated, it will become: http://domain2.com Now the real problem: Wordpress admin panel and front page works great but all the pages give me a : Not Found The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. THe url is correct but wordpress seems impossible to find it. I wonder if this is not an htaccess problem, could anyone help me please? I understand that the htaccess would work well this way for a fully propagated domain but what about having the addon domain? does this file need to be changed a bit? Here is my htaccess file: # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress Thank you, Ben
Posted by Cirtex, 10-12-2012, 05:44 PM Addon domains should not be an issue for Wordpress installations. Have you entered the domain correctly and path to wordpress correctly when installing it? Are you using any control panel to auto-install wordpress or did you do so manually? I'd honestly send your web host an email or file a ticket to see if they can assist. The solution should be very simple.
Posted by bambinou, 10-12-2012, 07:17 PM Thanks Cirtex. In fact the full installation has been moved from domain a to domain B, and not installed from fresh. I could perhaps reinstall wordpress itself on the new domain and only move the theme file.....May this will work ok. Thanks, Ben
Posted by foobic, 10-13-2012, 03:51 AM The standard .htaccess should work once it's propagated. Why not just add domain2.com to your hosts file as a temporary measure until then? (and access the site as http://domain2.com)
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