WordPress, Domain, and Nameserver Issue/Question

  • Resolved RootsRebel

    (@rootsrebel)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I am taking over a website for a friend to redesign and manage it with WordPress. I have built plenty of WordPress sites from the ground up but have never taken an existing domain to change it to WordPress. It’s also been a while since I’ve done one so I’m not sure if I ran in to this problem in the past. Anyways..

    The domain name already exists and is active. Here is what I did:

    1. Set up new hosting with HostGator
    2. Installed WP using existing domain (installed in root domain folder)
    3. Changed nameservers to point to HostGator nameservers

    Now, I just did this today, and the domain registrar said it could take up to 24 hours to effectively change the nameservers over. This seems like a long time to me for this process but… I realize the nameservers have not been changed over completely yet, but I still figured I could work on the WP site in the meantime. When I go to log in using http://www.domain.com/wp-admin I get this error:

    “NOT FOUND – The requested URL /wp-admin was not found on this server.”

    I’m assuming (hoping) that this simply means the nameserver process has not gone through yet, and I’ll just have to wait. But I wanted to ask around as I’m sure someone has had experience with this in the past.

    Your help is much appreciated in advance!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    the domain registrar said it could take up to 24 hours to effectively change the nameservers over.

    Try 72 hours for the changes to fully propagate.

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Nameservers can take up to 72 hours – it’s just how the internet works. Nothing you can do about it. See if hostgator can give you a temporary domain.

    Thread Starter RootsRebel

    (@rootsrebel)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Trust me I know about waiting extended time periods for things like this (domain transfers etc.). However, in the past when I’ve changed DNS it has taken no more than 2 hours. This is why 24 hours seems like a long time to me.

    Thanks for the input. It’s not that imminent really, I was just more curious whether I missed a step or didn’t do something correctly.

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