You can use a temporary Loopiadns.com-address if you still, for example, have a homepage at another provider, and you want to start building a new homepage on our servers.
To access the temporary address on the following example address: mindoman.se, you simply just change your browser to the following address: mindoman.se.loopiadns.com.
This has to be set up manually if you have installed an application with our One Click Installer. To fix this you will need to have set up an FTP-client, for example Filezilla to access our servers.
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WordPress
When you have successfully connected to our FTP-server you’ll need to edit the file in the following folder structure: \mydomain.com\public_html\wp-config.php
There you have to look for the following two lines (If these lines doesn’t exist you will have to add them to your wp-config.php file, as a suggestion at the very top of this file to have easier access to them later on):
define('WP_HOME','http://mindoman.se');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://mindoman.se');
And change them to the following:
define('WP_HOME','http://mindoman.se.loopiadns.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://mindoman.se.loopiadns.com');
$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = 'mindoman.se.loopiadns.com';
When you have changed or added these two lines you will have to save the file and upload to our server via FTP to the same folder structure as above.
Now visit your WordPress-site with the new address to make a last change so that your images works correctly.
Go to Settings > Media and edit Full URL path to files. On this address you must append it with .loopiadns.com. Example:
http://media.mindoman.se.loopiadns.com
When you feel finished with the site, and you want to change from the external provider to us, just remove these two lines from the wp-config.php file and re-upload the file to out FTP-server.
Joomla
For Joomla you don’t have to change anything in the configuration file, you can just visit your Joomla-site on the following address:
http://mydomain.com.loopiadns.com
Just change mydomain.com to your domain name where you have installed Joomla.
OpenCart
When you have successfully connected to our FTP-server you’ll need to edit the file in the following folder structure: \mydomain.com\public_html\admin\config.php
There you have to look for the following four lines:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com/admin/');
define('HTTP_CATALOG', 'http://mydomain.com/');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://mydomain.com/admin/');
define('HTTPS_IMAGE', 'https://mydomain.com/image/');
And then change them to the following:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com.loopiadns.com/admin/');
define('HTTP_CATALOG', 'http://mydomain.com.loopiadns.com/');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com.loopiadns.com/admin/');
define('HTTPS_IMAGE', 'http://mydomain.com.loopiadns.com/image/');
You also need to edit the file under \mydomain.com\public_html\config.php. Look for the lines below:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com/');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com/');
And change these to:
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com.loopiadns.com/');
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'http://mydomain.com.loopiadns.com/');
When you have changed these lines you will have to save the files and upload them to our server via FTP to the same folder structures as above.
When you feel finished with the site, and you want to change from the external provider to us, just restore these lines in the config.php-files and re-upload the file to us.
MediaWiki
For MediaWiki you don’t have to change anything in the configuration file, you can just visit your MediaWiki-site on the following address:
http://mydomain.com.loopiadns.com
Just change mydomain.com to your domain name where you have installed MediaWiki.