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Hey there,
I am sorry if this question came up a million times before – I am just trying to do the perfect move without breaking a site…
The situation is as follows:
A company has asked me to set up a new site for an existing domain (controlled by a different webmaster).
In the Strato hosting package they own (which is linked to a different URL) I have created a subdirectory, within which I have set up the NEW wordpress site.
The subdomain is http://www.subdomain.other-url.de
Now the webmaster who “controlls” the intended URL http://www.favoriteurl.com has set up a 301 redirect to the wordpress site (apparently a CNAME redirect was impossible).
Works fine, but the public facing URL always changes to http://www.subdomain.other-url.de when accessing the URL http://www.favoriteurl.com .
How do I keep it constant, so http://www.favoriteurl.com is the only thing the visitor is seeing? Changing either WordPress Address (URL) or Site Address (URL) or both (in the General Settings) leads to fatal results, and I had to fix it every time via functions.php …
“The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.
Apache Server at favoriteurl.com Port 80”
I am sure there is an easy solution, I am just too paranoid to touch .htaccess without assistance 🙁
THANK YOU!