How to have a com site instead of a siterubix, with NameCheap
Published on May 6, 2015
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This should be probably a Training Post but I don't know how to do that: What to do if you create a site here with SiteRubix and LATER want to give it some pretty name?
This is what I did:
1. Created and built my website here with the Siterubix website tools (the light blue thing on the left side)
2. Bought a domain name from NameCheap http://t.co/cdpZnqBNws
3. Followed the instructions on how to connect my new domain name to be hosted here at Wealthy Affiliate. Two great videos for that, describing basically the same:
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4. However, doing all of this so far did not actually replace my .siterubix.com site to a .com site, I had to figure out the next step on my own. But it was easy!
5. I went to my SiteRubix website manager here at WA, found my website that I wanted to change, liveandtravelyourlife.siterubix.com and clicked on the lighter blue square move
6. The pop-up window asked in Step 1: Where do you want to move your website? I choose To an Existing Domain Already hosted here at WA (the other option To a New Domain only gave me error messages)
7. liveandtravelyourlife.com, that I bought in 2. above and connected to WA in 3., was already there in a drop-down menu, so I just had to select it!
8. Step 2: Now just move your site! After double- (or triple) checking that the spelling and everything was alright, I simply had to hit the big blue button/bar I'm ready, move .......siterubix.com (it was the actual name of my site, but don't want to repeat it here.)
Wow, this was easy, wasn't it?
I just changed my website from http://liveandtravelyourlife.siterubix.com to http://www.liveandtravelyourlife.com which sounds much better.
Now I am happy :-) and hope this helps you too!
Andrea
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