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Can I change the domain name of my WordPress site?

Sorry about this seemingly basic question, but I have looked at the similar questions and those solutions (including Bluehost documentation) hasn’t worked for me.

I have a Bluehost account hosting multiple add-on domains. Currently:

  1. a.com > Existing wordpress site, located at public_html/a
  2. b.com > Points to an empty directory at public_html/b

All I want to do is change my wordpress site from a.com to b.com.

I have read answers here, as well as other posts online, that suggest adding:

define('WP_HOME','http://b.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://b.com');

But of course that doesn’t work. I don’t see how that would work either since when I enter b.com, the server would be looking under folder b/ which is empty. I figure I’m just missing a simple step somewhere.

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    So this seems to be working for me so far:

    1. In wordpress, under settings, change both Wordpress and Site URLs to b.com
    2. After this, going to a.com/wp-admin won't work any more.
    3. In bluehost, remove public_html/b and rename public_html/a to public_html/b

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    Did you check this tutorial?
    https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-change-your-wordpress-site-urls-step-by-step/

    Also what I would suggest is to use something like the Better Search Replace plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/ to scan your database and remove all references to domain "a.com" and replace it with "b.com"

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