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1. D2AP
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Alright so I signed up for web hosting and a domain name with godaddy, from there I installed the wordpress application and I've got my website pretty much finished but if I type in my godaddy domain name d2apdesigns.com it says future home of something quite cool, but if I type in d2apdesigns.com/wordpress1 the website comes up fine, so how do I use my godaddy domain name instead of whatever wordpress gave me? I have looked this stuff up and just got confused, I tried to have my mom help and she too got confused and she has already made a website for my dads business so she ins't as new to it as I am. So can someone help me?

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   actually if you used the one click install, you chose where wordpress is installed :>)

   So, you have 2 choices
   1 - use the one click installer to delete the site
   then re-install in ROOT
   or
   you can move the existing installation in one of two ways

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site
   or
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

   also, you will have to delete the godaddy index.html that is in root of site so the wordpress index.php can work

3. D2AP
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   What do you use one click installer to delete site? if I go to my applications and click on wordpress all I see is uninstall application or am I in the wrong place, and I'm using deleteing it won't wreck my site cause the data is stored in my file manager?

4. D2AP
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   The other thing is, if I go to file manager I see a folder that says [Root] is that the root file you're talking about, and I can't open it, so IDK what in it.

5. D2AP
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   my bad, I mean what do you mean use one click installer to delete the site. and I apologize for my multiple posts. My mind is all over the place.

6. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 9 months ago #

   if you delete or uninstall the site - yes it will be gone
   if you don't want that then follow one of the links above to manually move the site

7. D2AP
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I appreciate the help but I just tried following one of the links above along with my mom who has some website experience and we couldn't get it to work right, and I still don't understand the root documents or directories because I only see one root thing in my file manager and it doesn't display a file type and it isn't openable when I try to click it. Really big pain, thanks for your help. If you have no further suggestions or advice then I'll probably call godaddy support tomorrow.

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