1 hosting plan, 2 domains, 2 wordpress sites.. I need help.

Howdy,

The “main issue” is that WordPress (among other scripts) creates and then unpacks the files and folders in a folder called wordpress, instead of, IMHO, doing like Joomla! does when you unpack the archive (ZIP file) and just extract the files and folders where they are and does not create this “unnecessary” folder! … it screws up a lot of folks! … me included! 🙂

OK, rant over 🙂

All that you needed to do was to use the Go Daddy (GD) Hosting Account File Manager to move the files from the /wordpress folder to your /sirleif folder 🙂

If I understand you correctly, you deleted everything from your account? Going to start again? Did you install both WordPress instances with the GD Hosting Connections “one-click” install?

Personally, what I would do now is manually install WP for both domains.

1) using the GD Hosting Dashboard FTP File Manager (FM), upload the WP package ZIP to the root of your site
2) once uploaded, select the ZIP then click the “Unarchive” icon from the toolbar; accept / as the location
3) once this has unarchived successfully, then select the ZIP again and click the Move icon from the toolbar and select /sirleif as the destination (recreate the folder if you have also deleted this)
4) do the same Unarchive at this location, making sure that it shows /sirleif when asked where to unarchive
5) if you created both previous installs with the “one click” method, then the database info will need to be retrieved so that you can edit the wp-config.php file in each location

To access that info, select Databases > MySQL from the top menu, then click on the pencil icon for each one to view the DB Details page where you fill find the values you need to enter into the wp-config.php file:

Hostname, Database User name, Password, Host Name … jot down these values for each DB

Go back to the FM, and for each wp-config.php file, select it and click the Edit icon from the toolbar; edit the 4 values and save and close.

And to add your second domain, do this:

1) log in and get to your GD Hosting Dashboard
2) select Settings > Domain Management
3) click “Add Domain” (upper right)
4) at the next screen, enter the second domain (with OUT the www.) in Domain: and in Folder: enter sirleif so that the entry looks like this /sirleif
5) click “OK” and then wait for a while (up to an hour or so) before this domain addition has a chance to take effect

Cheers!
Lyle

govpatel’s solution will overwrite thriftygamer.ca

If the domian names are set right then when you log in Go daddy and click on hosting you should see the domain names and you click on domain name and will take you that domain name file manager.

A quick note to govpatel: note that the account in question is a deluxe hosting account and therefore ALL domain installations are hosted from one File Manager 🙂

OK, from what you describe, you have done the correct actions. This is what you should have for these two to work:

1) thriftygamer.ca as you say, is working fine and all files and folders are in the root of the hosting account; this is how it should be as there HAS to be a PRIMARY DOMAIN for GD Hosting Accounts; this is the one and it must reside in the root … fine, leave this alone 🙂

2) sirleif.com should have all it’s files and folders in a folder within the root, called sirleif (for example)

3) the method you used to set up the domain to point to the sirleif folder is correct; HOWEVER, it should also be pointed out that doing this is NOT an immediate process!!! Even though it shows as “Setup” in the Domain Manager, it can take up to 2 to 3 hours for it to “take”; be patient 🙂

4) you said you had a “working installation” at sirleif.com/sirleif; if this is the case, then what you needed to do was edit the database for the Sitename and Home URL; once you get your files and folders back to where they belong, you will still need to do this:

– from the Hosting Control Center, select Database > MySQL
– click the “Manage via phpMySQL” link for the database for sirleif
– login with the username and password you used to set up the database
– when phpMyAdmin opens, in the left pane, click on the + beside the DB name to expand; then click on the wp_options table
– in the right pane, click the “Browse” tab
– click the pencil icon in the siteurl row (should be first item)
– edit the value there so that it’s http://www.sirleif.com and then click the “Go” button, lower right
– click the “>” button to move to the next page and find the “home” row; edit it in the same way as the above
– click the “Exit” icon at the top of the left pane to log out of phpMyAdmin

That should get the site working 🙂

To review:

1) / = root site has thriftygame.ca files and folders:

2) /sirleif = has sirleif.com files and folders

3) Domain Manager entry for sirleif.com is:

Domain Name: sirleif.com Folder: /sirleif Status: Setup