[Hidden-tech] Wordpress Newbie Question

[Daniel Lieberman]

Thanks, my hosting company's tech support has walked me thru making the
desired change. All is well now!

Daniel Lieberman
Consulting for the New Millennium -
I Speak Geek So You Don't Need To


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On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Mark Firehammer <Mark at techeffective.net>wrote:

>  You shouldn't have to start over.
> the "blog." part of the install location represents a subdomain, and domain
> pointers are used to create those. Your server control panel probably
> gives you full control of those.
> The WordPress installation itself, is no doubt installed in a folder, or in
> the root position of your Web server.
> To verify that, look for the following three folders.
> wp-admin
> wp-content
> wp-includes
> These are the first level folders of a wordpress install.
>
> If they are in the root position of your server, meaning not in
> a another folder,  that's where your blog is installed.
> If they're inside a folder that's where your blog is installed.
>
> And the subdomain pointer is simply directing traffic to that blog
> installation. Here's an example
>
> The Web Server root position would be:  (no sub folders is the web root)
> /
> The WordPress installation folder if it's not in the root position could
> be:
> /Blog/
>
> The subdomain pointer in your domain control panel accomplishes this:
>
> The content meant to found any traffic addressed here:
> http://blog.yourdomain.com
> Can be found on the server here:
> /blog/
>
> Email, in most cases, has nothing to do with subdomains.
>
> That's it!
>
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> *From:* hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:
> hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] *On Behalf Of *Daniel
> Lieberman
> *Sent:* Friday, April 09, 2010 4:12 PM
> *To:* hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> *Subject:* [Hidden-tech] Wordpress Newbie Question
>
> We just started a new website. We weren't paying close attention and the
> one-click install put our blog at blog.ourdomain.com instead of
> ourdomain.com as we wanted.
>
> The question is, if we use the one-click remove feature on the hosting
> panel, will we have any issues with our email setup? The email is set up as
> NAME at ourdomain.com, and the mx record points to a comcast server.
>
> We don't want to mess anything up, but since we haven't done anything on
> the website yet, we thought the simplest thing would be to remove the
> existing installation and reinstall it where we want it.
>
> Any help very gratefully accepted.
>
>
> Daniel Lieberman
> Consulting for the New Millennium -
> I Speak Geek So You Don't Need To
>
>
> 413 489 1818
>
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