Yes, it’s easy to change CMSs. It’s mainly a process of learning WordPress and copying all the content over. Here’s the general process you’ll need to follow: Make sure you control the domain name. As in, it’s registered by your company and not the agency. If it is registered by the agency, stop here and … Read more
Moving a site is more than moving the database. And it is more than updating the wp-options table’s URLs (although that is important). You also have to change any references to the old URL in the database. I use a plugin called “Better Search and Replace” to update the URLs in the database. (There are … Read more
Check this out: http://en.support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/domain-management/ It looks like you can just change the name servers/a records/whatever. But if your client is not planning on switching back to WordPress.com, I would suggest you transfer to another registrar. It looks like the Automattic domain manager is pretty full featured, however, so maybe that’s not necessary.
It’s more of my personal approach than any kind of best practice, but I find WP’s Ajax handler to be easy and logical endpoint for such technical URLs.
Don’t replace old url to new url in database file. wp-login.php can be used to (re-)set the URIs. Find this line: require( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-load.php’ ); and insert the following lines below: Do comment/remove these lines. (once the database is updated) update_option(‘siteurl’, ‘http://your.domain.name/’ ); update_option(‘home’, ‘http://your.domain.name/’ ); for more information http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
You can set the domain for the WP install in the config-file wp-config.php and so its easy to set an new domain for a install. define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://www.example.com’); define(‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://www.example.com/blog’); Now use WordPress this domains and the settings in backend was not deciding. But the task after this small change is, that you change the url … Read more
The easiest way to handle this is to let your domain point to the WordPress directory, in your case: /mysite from your root web folder. This usually can be done either by your hoster or in your cPanel/administration tools. You also have to change WordPress Url and Site Url in your WordPress Settings to your … Read more
will WordPress be aware that it is called via HTTPS and change all links on the pages to HTTPS ? While WordPress knows if a request comes via HTTPS, it doesn’t change all the links automatically. Only certain links are updated to use https:// that too, without any subdomain part. Any hardcoded links would remain … Read more
It’s still confusing a little bit but definitely not best to resolve this with WordPress. Many hosting providers offer you to set domain redirect right in their control panel and often that’s the easiest to manage and also not require you to have web hosting with them (domain control is enough). If I understand your … Read more
It’s likely down to an nginx configuration if your server runs nginx. For example, an nginx default config could contain:- if ($host ~* ^www.domain.co.uk) { rewrite ^(.*)$ https://domain.co.uk$1 permanent; } This would result in your server trying to set a 301 redirect from www to non www but then when www is defined in WordPress, … Read more