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Help with new blog?!

by abomb55076
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Hello, I just purchased a new domain name at godaddy.com. Then I used my baby croc account at hostgator to make a subdomain. THen I went through the process of installing wordpress so that I can start a blog but now I want to go and sign in to worpress and I cannot access it or my website at all. When I type it in like: Mydomainname.com/worpressblogname/ , the browser just brings me to godaddy's advertisements saying, "This webpage is Parked free courtesy of Go daddy.com" Why cant I get to it?
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  • Profile picture of the author Stangracer
    Originally Posted by abomb55076 View Post

    Hello, I just purchased a new domain name at godaddy.com. Then I used my baby croc account at hostgator to make a subdomain. THen I went through the process of installing wordpress so that I can start a blog but now I want to go and sign in to worpress and I cannot access it or my website at all. When I type it in like: Mydomainname.com/worpressblogname/ , the browser just brings me to godaddy's advertisements saying, "This webpage is Parked free courtesy of Go daddy.com" Why cant I get to it?

    Did you setup the DNS serves to point to your Hostgator account?

    You have to go into GoDaddy and setup the DNS Servers to use the ones provided by Hostgator when you setup your account...

    It's pretty easy to do, login into GoDaddy and under 'domains' go into 'My Domians'...

    That puts you into the Domain Manager.

    Then select a domain.

    Go to 'Name Servers'

    Select 'Custom Name Servers'

    Insert the DNS servers you got from Host Gator in the email.

    Make sure you hit 'OK' to save it.

    It takes a few days or the DNS to fully propagate across the Internet.

    Hope this helps...

    Good Luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lynette Crase
    Hi
    Have you changed the DNS to point to your hosting. If you have it takes a while for the domain name to resolve, anywhere from a few hours to a few days in my experience.
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    • Profile picture of the author abomb55076
      Ok, I think that might have been it then, I have changed the nameserver stuff already but I didnt realize it took a while. So since its a subdomain, is it any different when im trying to get to the blog or would it still be mydomain.com/wordpresssblogname/ ?
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  • Profile picture of the author tomcam
    Depends on the directory you installed the blog into.

    It's possible you're confusing subdomains with add-on domains. A subdomain precedes the domain name with a dot, for example, mysubdomain.example.com. On Hostgator, an add-on domain is simply any domain other than the first one you registered with. To the outside world and the rest of the internet, it looks like a domain at peer with the rest of the world. Inside Hostgator, it resolves to a subdomain at the cpanel level: www.domain2.com.

    To make it more confusing, inside Hostgator your add-on domains are treated as subdomains even though you didn't create a subdomain explicitly. If the first domain you created on Hostgator is example.com, and the first add-on domain is domain2.com (which will look like www.domain2.com to the rest of the world), HG creates the subdomain domain2.example.com automatically.

    Hope this made sense. I didn't sleep last night.
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  • Profile picture of the author abomb55076
    Ok, I have a baby croc account, and I already had a website made so that means that I had to do it as a add on domain. So now when I want to access it I have to type it like this?... mynewdomain.olddomain.com? Also, what is the document root? it gives me something like /public_html/domainname.com. Thanks for the quick replies guys.
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    • Profile picture of the author tomcam
      Originally Posted by abomb55076 View Post

      So now when I want to access it I have to type it like this?... mynewdomain.olddomain.com? Also, what is the document root? it gives me something like /public_html/domainname.com. Thanks for the quick replies guys.
      Yes and yes. Don't worry, though, the rest of the world will indeed see www.mynewdomain.com, although they can also access it through the alias mynewdomain.olddomain.com.
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  • Profile picture of the author abomb55076
    Haha, ok, one more question, so if I installed a wordpress blog onto it then and that has a name so like right now when I access my blog its at Olddomain.com/wordpressblogname/ , so now to get to that on this new domain will I have to include that /wordpressblogname/ in there so its like this or somethin..... Newdomain.olddomain.com/newwordpressblogname/. Im just not sure if Im even using the right url to try and access it so I dont know if ill be able to find it when it does become available. Ha, thanks for the help though.
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    • Profile picture of the author ladyjane
      When I go to access a new Wordpress blog for the first time, I usually just put my blog's URL in my browser, followed by wp-login.php. This will take me to the sign-in page, where I enter my user name and password to access the blog's dashboard.

      So, the URL you enter to get to the sign-in page will look something like this: "http://www. yourblogsnamehere.com/wp-login.php"
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