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Resolved lewruf
(@lewruf)

11 years, 6 months ago

Hi,

I have an existing website hosted at GoDaddy, but I’ve grown so frustrated with them that i decided to come here and set it up. This is my first try at WordPress and I’m finding it to be a little more daunting than I thought it would be.

I signed up for hosting at DreamHost then came here and started following the setup instructions but have found myself at a standstill because I’m not sure where to go. I downloaded the WP software to my PC, I have a database at DH with a MySQL user. I think I’m at the point where I need to upload the wp-config.php file, I edited the file in Notepad++, but step 5 of the 5-minute Install has me stumped. I’m just not sure exactly how to go about doing it and I’m hoping someone here can help me with it.

Thanks,
Troy

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fonglh
(@fonglh)

11 years, 6 months ago

You need to upload all the WordPress files to DreamHost’s servers. You can do that with an FTP client like filezilla.

mojowill
(@mojowill)

11 years, 6 months ago

Here you go lewruf this should help you out

http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

Mika Epstein
(@ipstenu-dh)

DreamHost Rep

11 years, 6 months ago

Dreamhost has a one-click installer for you, lewruf, if you’d rather use that 🙂 Nothing wrong with it either 😀

Here’s our info on FTP: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/FTP

For one click just visit https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=goodies.installer and chose WordPress.

Thread Starter lewruf
(@lewruf)

11 years, 6 months ago

OK Mike. I used the one-click installer and I got a message that it was installed at my site. Yesterday I set up a mirror site at mysite.dreamhosters.com because my site is currently hosted at GoDaddy and I thought I would re-create it here at WP and once it was done I would then transfer the domain to DH. I guess my question is what should my next steps be? I didn’t see an option to use the one-click installer on my mirror site, do I need to install the files there too?

Thanks for your help here and on the DH forum.

lewruf

govpatel
(@govpatel)

11 years, 6 months ago

Are you using the same domain name at Dreamhost that you have at Go Daddy

Or do have some other domain name.

Mika Epstein
(@ipstenu-dh)

DreamHost Rep

11 years, 6 months ago

I used the one-click installer and I got a message that it was installed at my site.

It should be /home/username/domain.com

If you want to provide your domain, I can take a look for you.

Thread Starter lewruf
(@lewruf)

11 years, 6 months ago

it’s newenglandseminars.com

Marvel Labs
(@royalprince)

11 years, 6 months ago

Dear lewruf,

Check http://goo.gl/hJjyz for installing wordpress and setting it up on dreamhost.

Moreover, You just need to login into your domain control panel and set the name servers to

ns1.dreamhost.com
ns2.dreamhost.com

This way your domain will be redirected to your webhosting account.

Regards.

Marvel Labs
(@royalprince)

11 years, 6 months ago

Dear lewruf,

Check http://goo.gl/hJjyz for installing wordpress and setting it up on dreamhost.

Moreover, You just need to login into your domain control panel and set the name servers to

ns1.dreamhost.com
ns2.dreamhost.com

This way your domain will be redirected to your webhosting account.

Regards.

Mika Epstein
(@ipstenu-dh)

DreamHost Rep

11 years, 6 months ago

Everything’s in /home/username/newenglandseminars.com 🙂

Your dreamhosters site wasn’t working because you had the wrong password for your SQL ID. I fixed that for you and it should be fine now 😀

Marvel Labs
(@royalprince)

11 years, 6 months ago

For changing Domain Name Servers at Godaddy, visit http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/664/setting-nameservers-for-your-domain-names

Thread Starter lewruf
(@lewruf)

11 years, 6 months ago

OK, so now I’m able to go to http://www.newenglandseminars.dreamhosters.com/wp-admin/ and start to build my site. When I’m finished and happy with how it looks then I can ask about moving it from the mirror site to the real site and moving the domain from GoDaddy.

Thank you

Mika Epstein
(@ipstenu-dh)

DreamHost Rep

11 years, 6 months ago

If you need help afterwards moving from dreamhosters to your final domain, let us know 😀

Thread Starter lewruf
(@lewruf)

11 years, 5 months ago

OK, I’m happy with my site now and I need to start the process of moving my hosting from GoDaddy to DH. My site is live at http://www.newenglandseminars.dreamhosters.com, so I need to know what my next steps should be to:

1) Set up hosting at DH
2) Move my site from the mirror site to http://www.newenglandseminars.com
3) Anything else that I’m sure I’m missing…

Thank you in advance for your help, it has been huge so far.

govpatel
(@govpatel)

11 years, 5 months ago

I assume that you have two separate installs one on Dreamhost and one
Go Daddy under the domain name http://www.newenglandseminars.com

You have http://www.newenglandseminars.dreamhosters.com
at dreamhost and by look of the url you have subdomain name

Do you want this site to be on Domain name if so will need to know where exactly is wordpress installed on Dreamhost.

You will need to change name servers at Go daddy so it points to dream host.

Ones you done that may be @mika can help you on setting up domain name DNS

You can try contact Host support see if they can help.