Need help forwarding registered domain name

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Hi all,

I need help. I recently got an x10hosting account and I've been doing some work on my site on it. I also have a registered domain name that I'd like to forward to my x10hosting sub-domain without having the x10hosting subdomain being the url shown in the address bar when people navigate the site.

So, say my x10hosting url is http://xyz.x10hosting.com and my registered domain name is http://abc.com. How can I set it such that once forwarded, when people go to http://abc.com and navigate through the site, they're not seeing xyz.x10hosting.com in the address bar instead?

I've searched through the forum and I saw a few threads but they have expired links, so I'm unable to access the instructions. Can someone please guide me on how to go about this?

Thanks so much!
 

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.htaccess file with code such as:
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kolbys.x10host.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.kolbys.net/$1 [R=301,L]
 

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.htaccess file with code such as:
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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^kolbys.x10host.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.kolbys.net/$1 [R=301,L]

Thank you! Was about to embark on this, then saw rms' response. I'll try that first; hopefully that works for me. Otherwise, I'll have to come back to this.

Thanks again!
 

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In cPanel, 'PARK' the domain.
My rodneystevens.com is 'parked' on rms.x10host.com

Your domain hosts DNS settings need to point to X10's DNS
https://x10hosting.com/support/domains/add-domain-name

Thanks a lot, man! I've done this... now just to wait and see how it goes. They said it can take up to 48hrs for full propagation; I hope mine doesn't take that long. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
 

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Don't forget to update any script you have to reflect the change as well, I know that some will always show the configured domain regardless of domain used to visit the site (wordpress for instance does this)
 

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Don't forget to update any script you have to reflect the change as well, I know that some will always show the configured domain regardless of domain used to visit the site (wordpress for instance does this)

Wow... yeah, maybe this is the problem. My site is basically a wordpress site and right now, when I type in my domain, it immediately changes to the x10hosting subdomain. I was thinking perhaps it was still propagating, but several hours later and it's still doing that?

So, by updating the script, do you mean going into wordpress and specifically changing the site url e.t.c...?

To be clear, this is all I've done so far:

N.B: I previously had the site forwarded as a frame, so when people typed in my domain name, it did forward to my x10hosting account but showed my domain name. Unfortunately, it just showed the same url regardless of where you navigated to in the site, amongst other issues

So, on rmsx10ho's advice:

1. I went to my main domain and changed the nameservers to x10hosting's (I noticed that it automatically removed the forwarding I set up initially)
2. I went to x10hosting's cpanel and parked my domain

I've been waiting since then... Is there anything else I should have done or be doing (in addition to changing the scripts as you recommended now)?
 

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When I 'park' the domain in cpanel, do I have to 'Manage redirection'?
 

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YESSSSSSSS!!! That did it!!!

I went into my WordPress installation and changed the site url to my domain name. That seemed to finalize it! Now (so far) it shows my domain name and when I navigated to a few pages, it took on the domain name as the prefix.

Thank you all sooooooooooooooooo VERY much! I appreciate all the help! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Now to just get x10hosting to increase my storage size from this limited 512mb... lol
 
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