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How to make a subdomain folder load as primary public html folder

smeko
Hello, I administrate a cpanel shared hosting server and one of my client wanted a test enviroment to built a new wordpress site. I create a subdomain under public html and now the new site is ready to be published. I tried to move all files and folders from subdomain folder to main public html folder but it shows me this error when i try to reach my primary domain: The requested URL was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Please can anyone help me to instruct how to publish new site, so to load folder of subdomain when i search for primary domain ? Silvi

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  • smeko
    how can i transfer a website from a subdomain to main domain of the same cpanel account ? Please help Silvi
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  • cPanelLauren
    The files for the subdomain site just would need to be moved to the document root of the main domain. You'd also need to change the URL in Wordpress to reflect the location.
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  • smeko
    The files for the subdomain site just would need to be moved to the document root of the main domain. You'd also need to change the URL in Wordpress to reflect the location.

    Hi, I resolved the problem this way: 1-I uploaded wp content folder from subdomain folder to public html of primary domain. 2- I updated wp-config with those records define('WP_HOME','http://mysite.com'); define('WP_SITEURL','Website Hosting - Mysite.com' Also i changed name and password of database at wp config. 3- I installed velvet blues plugin and changed urls to wordpress as this: Select Tools > Update URLs from the WordPress sidebar. Enter your old (subdomain) and new (root domain) URLs and in Step 2, check all options except Update All GUIDs. Now everything is working fine. Problem resolved ?
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