At long last I have found a URL worth having.  The new URL is uavs.us which stands for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems, or UAVs.

The processing of ordering a redirecting the URL to my server took a few hours.  Getting wordpress to play along was much more difficult.  Upon getting the URL forwarded to my server I tried to access wordpress the same way I had been accessing it and then at the new address:

Old: 74.183.253.9/wordpress/

New: uavs.us/wordpress/

While the old method still worked, the new address just gave me an error saying that

The config file for the specified host is not under an allowed path

It took me far too long to figure out a solution to this problem.  The root of the issue is that I use an Ubuntu based server and installed wordpress using apt-get.  The publisher of the package improved the software making the wp-config.php file “highly customized” according to one source.  In the end, the solution turned out to be that while I have a single file called “config-74.183.253.9.php”, I needed a file to correspond to each of the addresses that might need to connect to wordpress. Thus I had to use the commands:

sudo cp config-74.183.253.9.php config-uavs.us.php

sudo cp config-74.183.253.9.php config-www.uavs.us.php

This fixed the issue for me.  The issue could also have been solved by editing the wp-config.php file such that it will only look for the one file.

An old picture I generated, posted using the repaired content upload

Having gotten wordpress up and running again I decided to also perform some server maintenance.  Now wordpress is the homepage for uavs.us instead of being at /wordpress.  Finally, I fixed a back-end issue which fixed the mechanism for adding media to these posts.  The consequence is that I will have to repost all the old pictures, but in the future it will be much easier to add content.