WordPress address and site address problem

See Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory.

Hi

I had tried that, and got an error 404 page.

The structure of my wordpress site is that it is being hosted from https://jupperpeep.com within a directory called https://jupperpeep.com/jadedeye. I have purchased https://www.jadedeye.com and want my site to point to that and also the permalinks to display this (at present the permalinks display https://jupperpeep.com/jadedeye/…. as you may expect) When I go and change the site address to https://www,jadedeye.com I get an error 404 page, I kind of understand why. I have gone into my hosts cPanel and forwarded the domain to https://jupperpeep.com/jadedeye. Could you indicate where I am going wrong or what I am missing?

For your information I have https://www.jupperpeep.com pointing to https://jupperpeep.com and that why blog isn’t.

Hope this all makes sense and that someone can help, I’m slowly understanding it all.

J-P

You need to change the Site & WordPress urls to match your new domain in Settings/General. See Changing_The_Site_URL.

Okay, thank you for your advice, I’ve taken a look through the different ways of doing this. Tried the first one and lost my theme, quickly reversed it. Which method would you recommend?

The Edit functions.php or Relocate method.

So can I just confirm, as my wordpress site is currently located on my sever at the following address https://jupperpeep.com/jadedeye and I want to my permalinks to appear as https://www.jadedeye.com, the code should be as follows:

update_option(‘siteurl’,’https://jupperpeep.com/jadedey’);
update_option(‘home’,’https://jadedeye.com’);

Do I need to do anything special in my cPanel regarding the forwarding?

Try:

update_option('siteurl','https://www.jadedeye.com');
update_option('home','https://jadedeye.com');

and do I need to change anything in my ‘General’ panel in wordpress, how should that be looking?

No – the settings on General should be changed by the additions you’re making to functions.php. You may need to load the login or admin page a couple of times but once the site is back up, re-edit functions.php and remove those two lines.

erm, I’ve added the two lines as suggested, but now the site still has the error 404 message and the theme seems to have been lost

Try:

update_option('siteurl','https://adedeye.com');
update_option('home','https://jadedeye.com');

in functions.php. I missed the extra www in the previous settings.

Sorry still no luck.

Argh! Typo!:

update_option('siteurl','https://jadedeye.com');
update_option('home','https://jadedeye.com');

I had actually noticed that and tried it, but still isn’t working and still seem to have lost the theme.

Have you pointed the new domain correctly? Right now you seem to be using some sort of framed re-direct/mask?