Why is my subdomain redirecting to my www?

coherent

• September 16, 2020 12:53

Hi there, I am trying to create a staging Wordpress server that is a copy of an existing site I have running on the root and www domain. I created a new sub-domain staging.mysite.com and I can see in my domain registrar that I have a staging A record that is indeed pointing at my server. The problem is when I actually go to the site. I get a 301 redirect when I go to staging.mysite.com that redirects to www.mydomain.com and replace it with staging.mydomain.com. These changes were all almost exclusively in the .htaccess file. Here's an example of what the .htaccess looks like: ``` # BEGIN WordPress # The directives (lines) between `BEGIN WordPress` and `END WordPress` are # dynamically generated, and should only be modified via WordPress filters. # Any changes to the directives between these markers will be overwritten. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress RedirectPermanent /about/press/

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  andrew.n

  • September 16, 2020 20:24

  Also re-write the URL in the WP database. If you go to general settings you will see that WP also stores the domain inside it's db. If you copy the site that needs to be changed as well.

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  coherent

  • September 17, 2020 16:06

  Copying my existing database, updating the address of the database in the wp code, and then updating the site address in the database worked perfectly. Thanks so much!

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  cPanelLauren

  • September 17, 2020 18:31

  Glad to see you were able to get the issue resolved. Thanks for updating here with what worked.

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  AmirZ

  • February 21, 2021 18:15

  I came across this post from searching the forum and I have similar problem with a slight twist. subdomain is created. design.domain.ca database created and user is set to the database for the subdomain Using file manager i have extracted the zip file and copied the files into subdomain folder which is in root. Not public_html a copy of main domain database was exported and than imported into subdomain database wp-config file set to connect to sub-domain. When i visit the url for sub-domain. It will redirect me to domain.ca i have checked to see if there is anything in redirect section inside cpanel and there is nothing. What am i not performing correctly? Thank you in advance

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  AmirZ

  • February 22, 2021 10:02

  Any help regarding above content would be appreciated.

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 22, 2021 18:40

  @AmirZ - since this is a WordPress site, have you updated the Siteurl value in the WordPress database to reflect the change?

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  AmirZ

  • February 22, 2021 22:06

  @AmirZ - since this is a WordPress site, have you updated the Siteurl value in the WordPress database to reflect the change?

  
  that was the step I did not perform. Cheers

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • February 23, 2021 13:04

  @AmirZ - I'm glad that helped!

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