Help, I've broken my blog!

[bass_junkie83]

I have a WordPress.com blog which I decided I now want to host on my own website.

I started by installing WordPress to a subdomain and which worked fine and my original blog was still OK.

I then read that for seo purposes it would be better to have it installed in a subdirectory. So I deleted what I had done and stated again.

That's working fine.
http://www.photographerinessex.com/blog/

But now when I go to my old WordPress hosted blog, it redirects to the subdomain I created with an error message and I can't access my content!
http://blog.photographerinessex.com

How can I get this back as I need to migrate my old content.

 

[neil_g]

i dont believe you can?

"WordPress.com automatically removes the “www” from all URLs. Mapping the “www” subdomain is not supported. Also, we do not currently allow mapping to subdirectories, such as example.com/blog."

taken from - http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-subdomain/

 

[bass_junkie83]

Yeah I read that before. My understanding was that relates to redirecting traffic from a WordPress.com site to your own site.

You should still be able to export the content from the WordPress.com blog and upload it to the new domain.

As far as I am aware I haven't done anything to effect the old blog, but I guess I have messed something up along the way.
I don't know why visiting my old blog would now redirect to a defunct subdomain?

 

[theurbanclown]

Did you not export the content before making the directory change?

 

[bass_junkie83]

Come on now, that would have been the smart thing to do. :bonk:

I have sorted it now. I had set up the redirect thing that WordPress offers to the subdomain I had set up.
I then changed my mind, deleted the subdomain and reinstalled to a subdirectory.
But I forgot to cancel the redirect, so when I went to my old blog it was trying to redirect me to the subdomain I just deleted.

So, cancelled the redirect, got back onto my old blog and successfully copied over all my content.

The new blog is now at
http://www.photographerinessex.com/blog/just going through the process of sorting out the appearance and making it integrate with the rest of my site.
All I am having trouble with now is how to get the same menu buttons as per the other pages of my site on to the top of the blog page.