host vs domain

  • marule

    (@marule)


    15 years, 2 months ago

    Hi all,

    I am new to web page development, all i wanted to do is to have a blog 🙂

    for that purpose I purchased a domain from godaddy.com, let says http://www.xyz.com

    then my universtiy has a host but it has different domain (smt like students.xxx.edu/~username), they give me my database name, database username, database password, database host.

    My question is how can I install wordpress to my http://www.xyz.com domain without purchasing a host from godaddy.com. I want to use my university as a host in my domain. I can use filezilla to upload files to my students.xxx.edu/~username website. It support php and mysql but not ASP.

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  • arkgroup

    (@arkgroup)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    marule,

    You need to point your domain name from GoDaddy’s control panel to your university server. For this you need to change DNS of your domain name to university name servers. Then you’ll need to create your domain name in hosting control panel (if there is one like cPanel or Plesk). If there are no panels then you’ll need to create virtualhosts for your domain name manually.

    Thread Starter marule

    (@marule)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    thanks for quick reply,

    when I try to set a nameserver from godaddy, I do not know what to do, it offer me 4 options

    I want to park my domains.
    I want to forward my domains.
    I have a hosting account with these domains.
    I have specific nameservers for my domains.

    I chose last one, but next I dont know the name server of our university. If we assume that I manage to do that, do you know how can I create virtualhosts for my domain because as far as I know we dont have cPanel or Plesk.

    arkgroup

    (@arkgroup)

    15 years, 2 months ago

    In case there is no control panel installed there, to make your domain name functional on the server, you’ll need access to this server first. If you don’t have root privileges, then you should talk to someone who has. Then you should add appropriate lines to httpd.conf file.

    This is a documentation about vhosts:
    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/

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