I'm new to the world of webmasters, so I haven't been able to appropriately search for an answer. I don't know the keywords that describe my situation.
I registered hallienoelle.com and the .net
version through GoDaddy and set up forwarding with masking to hallienoelle2.wpengine.com.
When you go to the .com
or .net
, it takes you to the homepage with no slashes or anything after it. If you click on a different page, it takes you to that page, but doesn't change the url. It still says hallienoelle.com
with no slashes or anything after it.
The most worrisome part is that if someone clicks an external link my URL is still in the address bar.
For example, clicking the Powered by Wordpress link at the bottom takes you to wordpress.org
, but the address bar still shows hallienoelle.com
with no slashes or anything after it .
Did I do something wrong in setting up GoDaddy forwarding or is it a Wordpress/WPEngine configuration issue?
UPDATE:
Thanks to PatomaS I know how to fix the external link problem. I still am unsure of how to get the directory/folder/webpage to display after the .com
like so:
Go to
hallienoelle.com
(and see the content fromhallienoelle2.wpengine.com
)Click a link, like
About Us
This should take you to
hallienoelle.com/?page_id=11
(and you see the content fromhallienoelle2.wpengine.com/?page_id=11
)But, currently it still shows just
hallienoelle.com
even though you are looking at the?page_id=11
page.
Do I have to go through all my internal links and hard-code something like <a href="hallienoelle.com/?page_id=11" target="_top">About Us</a>
?
This seems inefficient and error prone. I'm probably just misunderstanding something.
UPDATE 2:
WPEngine also gives me the option of forwarding to http://198.58.98.52/
and I (think) it reads the requested URL from the header and serves my content.
I add this because as I've been reading someone said redirects to mysite.example.com
are generally used for free hosting providers and are looked down upon. I use hallienoelle2.wpengine.com
because it is recommended on http://wpengine.com/support/how-to-configure-your-dns/
under the heading Setting up a subdomain
.