Change domain, but maintain same hosting, to my WordPress Site

Hi, I want to change domain to my WordPress site, but I want to continue to use same hosting (GoDaddy).

I'd like to not loose people that subscribed to notifications and I'd also like to maintain ranking to my best articles, but if is not possibile is fine, I'll start from zero.

Is It difficult to do? I'm not an expert and I did pretty much anything on my site using plugins. If someone can link me a guide or tell me how to do would be great, but if is a really difficult thing I'll try to find some freelance that can do the work for me. Thanks.

Hi,

You can change the primary domain name within your control panel of HostGator and forward all your traffic from your old domain to your new domain.
Or do I miss something that it makes more difficult to achieve?

Festinger said:

Hi,

You can change the primary domain name within your control panel of HostGator and forward all your traffic from your old domain to your new domain.
Or do I miss something that it makes more difficult to achieve?

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I've really not idea if is simple or not, because I never did before

What is HostGator? I don't have to do that from my WordPress panel? All link to my existing articles will change automatically? Thanks

KanekiLife said:

I've really not idea if is simple or not, because I never did before

What is HostGator? I don't have to do that from my WordPress panel? All link to my existing articles will change automatically? Thanks

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Oops, I though you were hosting your website with HostGator, but it's GoDaddy.

It's not a big deal. You can just leave every file on the hosting and change the primary domain of your hosting package.
Make sure to change every inner domains within your WP environment to the new URL. Final thing is to 301 redirect your old domain to your new domain.

Thanks! Only thing I've no idea how to do is how to 301 redirect my old domain. Maybe you know some good tutorials about? Or I'll try to search something in Google/yt

KanekiLife said:

Thanks! Only thing I've no idea how to do is how to 301 redirect my old domain. Maybe you know some good tutorials about? Or I'll try to search something in Google/yt

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https://www.inmotionhosting.com/sup...ting-up-a-301-permanent-redirect-via-htaccess

I've followed the guide and I changed my domain easly, but now i can't redirect old contents to the new domain

I've changed my .htaccess like that:



But simply don't works. If I try to click an old link, chrome (and other browsers) tell me that the site take too much time to respond... What I'm doing wrong?