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1. icehockeyboy
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I am currently trying to build my first website and I'm using hostgator. My domain name/url is http://www.icehockeyboy.com. I log into the C-Panel on host gator and went on to install WordPress and it says it was sucessfull. I watched an you tube video and he said wait 15mins and then type in your URL and it would be installed. One hr later still nothing! Please help!!! Thank you!

2. 2ninerniner2
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Howdy,

   I do believe that the YT vid was a little bit hasty in how fast the domain name would be propagated :) Within your HG cPanel, you should find a temporary URL that you can use until such time as your own becomes fully available (can sometimes take up to 48 hours!)

   Question: did you get your domain from HG or did you register it with some other place (such as Go Daddy)? I always purchase my domains at Go Daddy as they arguably have the best prices; I then just update my DNS record at GD to reflect the HG name servers; this process takes about 1 to 2 hours for a [dot] com URL; longer for [dot] org or [dot] net (even longer for [dot] ca ! :)

   Cheers!
   Lyle

3. RichardWPG
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   It shouldn't take that long and perhaps you can ask your hosting provider for support? And yes I still don't see your WordPress though

4. icehockeyboy
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Yes I did register my domain name with go daddy. I check the morning and now I can't even get my website to load...

5. 2ninerniner2
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   By the look of what I see when I go to your URL, either you have not yet set the Domain Name Servers at Go Daddy to your HostGator Domain Name Server values, or you have, and they haven't propagated yet.

   1) Log in to your HG cPanel and scroll to the bottom of the page; in the left side bar, you will see in the Account Information, two values for Name Servers, in the form of nsxxxx.hostgator.com; these two values are what you will need to enter over at GD

   2) Log in to your GD account, scroll to the bottom of the page and under Account Manager, click My Account

   3) When My Domains is displayed, click on the domain in question

   4) When the Domain Details page is displayed, at the lower left, notice the Nameservers area; click on the Set Nameservers link

   5) Click the last of the 4 option radio buttons: "I have specific nameservers for my domains."

   6) Copy and Paste the Name Server values from HG into the respective Nameserver 1 and Nameserver 2 boxes then click OK

   7) Wait from 1 to 2 hours and the DNS will have propagated and you will be on your way :)

6. PositiveMostOfTheTime
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   @icehockeyboy

   I can reach your domain fine...it has a GoDaddy landing page because you need to login to your GoDaddy account under Domains and change your "nameservers" to point to Hostgator. You can get the nameserver info from Hostgater.

   Hope this helps you

   Cheers

7. Go Daddy
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   It looks like you were able to get the help you needed to get your domain set up! Good luck with your blog.

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