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URL issue/questions - Login not on custom domain name & can I map www to TLD?

  1. easyas12pc
    Member

    I have just upgraded to have my own domain used as the primary domain for my WordPress.com site. I have added the domain and updated the DNS details to allow mail to go to the previous server. I can access the wordpress site using the address shown above but I appear to be always logged out. As you can understand this causes the site visitors number to bump up each time. When I click log in I am redirected to http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-login.php and I can then log in as normal. however when I do all the admin screens begin http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-admin/

    My first question therefore is how to I update/change the login screen, and subsequent Admin screens, to be just http://easyas12pc.co.uk?

    The second question is can I map or otherwise http://www.easyas12pc.co.uk to http://easyas12pc.co.uk using the wordpress.com dns settings screen.

    Thanks in advance
    William

    The blog I need help with is easyas12pc.co.uk.

  2. raincoaster
    Member

    You cannot change the admin screens, but the login screen should work at http://easyas12pc.co.uk/wp-admin

    http://www.easyas12pc.co.uk/ will always reroute to http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ on a WordPress.com setup.

  3. easyas12pc
    Member

    Thanks for the reply raincoaster.

    My issue is not that the admins screens do not work on http://easyas12pc.co.uk/wp-admin but that they only work on http://easyas12pc.co.uk/wp-admin.
    If I go to http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ I am not logged in even after clicking log in. This causes the visitor count to increase every time I access the site using http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ to view posts etc.

    Currently http://www.easyas12pc.co.uk/ does not reroute to http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ it is still going to the previous location. I would like for the rerouting to happen as you describe.

  4. thesacredpath
    Member

    You may have to set up a redirect on the www address at your domain registrar. I've seen this sort of thing happen with some domain registrars, while with others WWW redirect are seamless and automatic.

  5. easyas12pc
    Member

    I followed the instructions for assigning the domain but I'll try what you said thesacredpath.

    Being unable to be logged into the bare domain is the more pressing issue as I said the counter increases every time I visit.

  6. easyas12pc
    Member

    The www issue has now been resolved it was a local DNS issue.

    I still have the issue that I cannot log into http://easyas12pc.co.uk only http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com

  7. easyas12pc
    Member

    I still have the issue that I cannot log into http://easyas12pc.co.uk only http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com. This is not useful as I cannot check that a post is showing properly without increasing the views. At present every time I land on http://easyas12pc.co.uk I am increasing the views counter which I obviously do not want to do as then I have no idea of the actual number of visitors I have that day.

    Any help or clarification on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

  8. auxclass
    Member

    If you log in at http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/ then go to http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ your page views will not be counted -

    I have a mapped domain name and I am never counted as long as I log in to the base account first - I just double checked it on my site and still works that way for me

  9. easyas12pc
    Member

    Thanks for the reply auxclass, I really wish this was the case however I can log into http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-login.php as many times as I want however I am never logged in at http://easyas12pc.co.uk.

  10. easyas12pc
    Member

    I can even click the logo in the top left of the Dashboard, which is on http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-admin/, but I am not logged in at http://easyas12pc.co.uk.

  11. auxclass
    Member

    You will never be logged into http://easyas12pc.co.uk/ where you see that in your dashboard -

    Your dashboard will always show http://easyas12pc.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ - your dashboard is always the base URL of the WordPress.COM that your domain name is mapped to

  12. easyas12pc
    Member

    Currently anytime I go to http://easyas12pc.co.uk the visitor count is increasing by one. This happens each and every time. If I was so inclined I could force my page views. It even registers the referrer as WordPress Dashboard.

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