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So my domain is from godaddy, I use bluehost for hosting and wordpress for editing my site. I’ve been editing on a temporary domain for a while now because my site isn’t launched. Today I tried to launch the site. I went into settings and changed the temporary domain to the domain that I own.
Now I can’t even get into wordpress, it says “\*\*\*\*\*\*.com is not available”
HELP!
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Can you go into more detail about the steps you took when trying to launch your site?
From your post it sounds like you may have set the domain in WordPress but not actually updated your domain DNS to point to this website.
It sounds like you were editing the site at example-temporary.com, with the intention of launching it at example.com. When you tried to launch the site, you logged in to WordPress and went to settings to change the URLs to example.com. Is that correct?
If so, that is not the way. There could be two things happening.
Most likely, what’s happening is that GoDaddy is pointing to bluehost when you type in example.com, and bluehost is pulling up whatever they have for example.com. Unfortunately, the files you care about are still in whatever folder you set up for example-temporary.com, so bluehost is pulling up something completely wrong. You’ll need to adjust your settings in bluehost so that example.com is pulling up the right files. Depending on how your hosting is set up, that might mean moving the files to the correct folder, or it might mean telling bluehost where to find the right files.
If bluehost is pulling up the right files (and the right database!), then the issue might be in your database–if you were building your site with absolute links (which many page builders do), then you probably have lots of references to example-temporary.com scattered around the database that need to be updated. You’d usually see things like broken images or scripts not loading, but I’ve seen it break whole sites like this before. The best way to fix this is through PHPmyAdmin–you can try a database-wide search-and-replace, but _make sure you have good backups first_.
If you need more help, my power’s out today and I’m bored so feel free to DM me the real URL.
Don’t forget, you can always access it from the IP address of your server hosting.
Domain name = easy way to access IP addresses.
So if your IP is 158.274.37.27, you’d go to http(s)://158.274.37.27/wp-admin.php (assuming your site is in the root directory, otherwise just change the path) IP = root.