Title: host vs domain
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# host vs domain

 *  [marule](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marule/)
 * (@marule)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/host-vs-domain/)
 * 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](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](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arkgroup/)
 * (@arkgroup)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/host-vs-domain/#post-1974644)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marule/)
 * (@marule)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/host-vs-domain/#post-1974659)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arkgroup/)
 * (@arkgroup)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/host-vs-domain/#post-1974777)
 * 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/](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/)

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 * [godaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/godaddy/)
 * [host](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/host/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/host-vs-domain/#post-1974777)
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