Peculiar problem, I have a client with a site they would like to replace. The site being so old that the company's that provide the domain and hosting don't provide these services anymore. I managed to contact the company where the domain was registered and transfer the domain name to the google registrar but have had no luck in locating the provider for the hosting in order to transfer the site itself and thus gain control of it.
My question is: can you kill the old site that the domain links to or otherwise upload a new site to the domain without access to the hosting?
If you got control of domain, it doesn't matter if the old site remains up.
Just point the domain to the new hosting server/folder as they tell you in their instructions and the old site will be inaccessible other than by IP address.
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Good Noon, I am stuck in a problem that I am the old owner of the domain named goldaccesshk.com and this domain is expired and bought by some other company and I have removed all the data from my Hosting all files including my database but unfortunately when ever I hit the goldaccesshk.com url it is still showing me the results . How can I resolve that issue . A screenshot is mentioned below
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It is surely the cache system of your browser because I have nothing.
Check your wordpress hosting server. The hosting server will cache the files and serve for sometimes. So clear the cache on your server.
Remember we have two part:
#1. Domain registration
#2. Hosting provider
You lose the #1 and still with #2, so if the site still working maybe:
#1. Your cache (this apply if only you be access)
#2. The new domain owner not changed the DNS server on domain registra company.
I believe your problem is the #2, so to solve this you can change the domain on your hosting provider because curenctly he is configured to answer to this domain (You can just change the domain to anything).
I would like to work on creating some web sites for my portfolio(I already have one and it's created with wordpress), but I don't know what to do with domain and stuff. Should I purchase a domain and a hosting for each web site I create??
Well, it is completely your decision. You can access your sites with temporary URLs if your hosting provider offers. If you want to access each wordpress sites with separate domains like; http://example.com http://example2.com, you will have to register the domains and point them to your hosting providers' server.
Basically, you will get nameservers from them which you can set from your domain control panel (From where you purchase domain).
Just wondering if someone can clear something up for me. I am moving a site to another hosting provider for a friend who had their blog hosted on wordpress.com but had bought their own domain through them so the "wordpress.com" extension wasn't displayed.
I have transferred the new domain and I'm waiting for the DNS records to propagate. In the backend of the Wordpress site I have since changed the default domain to be "blogname.wordpress.com"
What I'm wondering is after the DNS records have propagated and the transferred domain now points to the new hosting will I still be able to access the wordpress.com site?
Or does this disappear?
It depends upon what you do with your old WordPress website. At WordPress.com dashboard you will have multiple options like:
Delete Site
Change your site’s address and keep your content
Empty your site of all its content for a fresh start
Transfer your website to someone else
Make your site private so only people you invite can see it
Usually, WordPress.com users set 301 redirection to self hosted domain. This way you will not lose any traffic or links pointing to your site. WordPress.com offers an add-on call site-redirect which cost only $13/year and it offers 301 perma-redirect.
I've got a ASP.NET website which has a domain name. I've got another web solution, and I want to route this solution to subdomain.
Example :
I've got website which has a www.mydomain.com domain name,
And I want to give domain name like sub.mydomain.com.
Any help would be great. I'm a newbie in this situation.
It all depends on your dns settings and how easy they are to control. If you have a cPanel provided by your hosting company this is usually easy to do. The websites have to be on the same url usually but a sub domain can forward to an external website.
Contact your hosting company/domain provider about using sub domains.
I have a few sites I developed that I need to show my client for review. These are all redesigns of live sites, so they've had me upload them to their new hosting server, which is currently accessible via IP address because the domains are currently in use by the live sites.
I've set each site up as add-on domains in cpanel, and they all live in directories off the root, like 192.0.2.3/site1.example (for example).
However, these are Wordpress sites, and the database references the actual domain name (site1.example), so that it will be all set for launch when we update the DNS to point to this server. That means you can't actually see the site at that domain unless you update your hosts file. But there are lots of non-technical people that need to review the site, and updating their hosts file just isn't an option.
I'd rather not have to do a search and replace on the database to change the domain to 192.0.2.3/site1.example temporarily, just so they can view it. Because when we're ready for launch, I'll just have to do another search and replace to switch it back to the real URL. But it seems like that's my only option.
Is that correct, or is there another way they can view the site without me having to update all the URLs in the database?
The best solution here is to search and replace the URL just as you said