• I am trying to move my site from hostgator to go daddy, problem I my old webmaster set up and designed my site, I am now taking over everything, I set up the new host, I backed up the hostgator site installed it into the go daddy site but it wont show, I am extremely green on this stuff. I know almost zero on the “programing” end, I can navigate ok on the back end of the site. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Right now I have it still with hostgator but need to move it ASAP. My go daddy is just sitting there.
    http://www.gulfcoastkenpo.com, but that site is working ok it’s when I install the back up on go daddy I cannot preview it.

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  • Thread Starter kenpoman

    (@kenpoman)

    should I load it up on godaddy so you can see what it is doing?

    Thread Starter kenpoman

    (@kenpoman)

    sorry I own both sites .com, and .net .com is on hostgator temporarily, I am setting up .net and will then just forward .com over. It’s the .net that I cannot get working. http://www.gulfcoastkenpo.net

    Perhaps this reference will be helpful: https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress

    Thread Starter kenpoman

    (@kenpoman)

    As far as I know, I did all that. still nothing.
    Would I make a difference that he built it under his name and I’m hosting this one? I forwarded the domain name to http://www.gulfcoastkenpo.com still nothing?
    I really don’t understand. I backed it up and restored all like the support said to.

    The “Site Address (URL)” setting is the address you want people to type in their browser to reach your WordPress blog.

    The “WordPress Address (URL)” setting is the address where your WordPress core files reside.

    from this reference:
    https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

    And all of that assumes the DNS all set up correctly. I suspect you first need to check your namservers and dns zones for both domain and make sure the domain resolves to the IP address of the host where the site finally will reside. Good Luck

    Thread Starter kenpoman

    (@kenpoman)

    First off, thanks for all your help with my issues, sorry I’m real green with all this.
    when I type in my URL it tries to download a file, I open it in note and this is what it says:
    <?php
    /**
    * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
    * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
    *
    * @package WordPress
    */

    /**
    * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
    *
    * @var bool
    */
    define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

    /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
    require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);

    Again I’m at a loss?
    will it make a difference that the old webmasters name is all over inside the site?

    when I type in my URL it tries to download a file,

    Yes, it appears no php enabled on your host, try ask your host company…

    Also ask them about all this:

    And all of that assumes the DNS all set up correctly. I suspect you first need to check your namservers and dns zones for both domain and make sure the domain resolves to the IP address of the host where the site finally will reside. Good Luck

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