How to recover my old website with the domain name registered

[KennethIT]

Website URL

kenit.online

Error Message

no error message displayed … I reconnected the nameservers to my domain name account and now when i add a domain in the infinityfree account it does not point to my old wordpresssite

Other Information

i checked my file manager and foundout that another folder has been created with my domain name and inside it is an htdocs folder

[anon95807532]

Hi KennethIT,

Ok, so your website is either in the process of having nameservers transferred or has not configured DNS to point to IF servers. If you have reconnected nameservers, wait 72 hours before retrying.

@KennethIT

i checked my file manager and foundout that another folder has been created with my domain name and inside it is an htdocs folder

Expected behaviour, you should place your website in the htdocs folder.

[KennethIT]

is it the htdocs in my domain folder or the htdocs in the main folder ?

[anon95807532]

htdocs in your domain folder = website files for that domain
htdocs in the main folder = website files for the domain that comes with the account, you likely have a free subdomain with IF and this is the folder for that.

[KennethIT]

[KennethIT]

so should i move the folder into the second folder ?

[anon95807532]

Nope, instead, move everything inside the /htdocs into /kenit.online/htdocs folder, you can avoid a lot of permission issues this way.

[KennethIT]

okay so Im having issue copying the folder into the domain folder . and also wont it affect my wordpress database and configs?

[anon95807532]

Your WordPress data are stored in MySQL database, the files here are WordPress files and your uploads.

[KennethIT]

okay but then how do i copy the folders in the main htdocs cux its not working when i copy and paste it

[anon95807532]

Use FileZilla, then download and upload from the source location to new location.

[Admin]

The safest way is to download the files with FileZilla and reupload them. It’s cumbersome, especially if your connection to the FTP server is slow, but it’s most reliable, because you will always have a backup of your website on your own compute if things go wrong.

The fastest way to do this is like so:

1. In the file manager, go to the kenit.online folder and delete the (empty) htdocs folder.
2. Go back to the root folder, right click the htdocs folder and select Cut.
3. Now to back into the kenit.online folder, right click anywhere and choose Paste.

Your files are now moved to the new location, nearly instantly.