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  • Well, I just noticed the email from WordPress of the message you sent me.
    I did not realize this is still existing problem. My question above to his question never was answered.

    With the hosting at WHW1, I simply go their fast install icon, Click on WordPress, enter my sites title, and boom the whole wordpress is installed and ready to use. Runs flawlessly. I don’t see any reason to manually install or upload WP.

    In your case dojoge1, it sounds like WP cannot find your DB, and so probably wrong path indicated. Unfortunately, you will need to manually handle this and probably edit the config file that indicates the path, after you determine the correct path.

    In addition, I think you should have been able to accomplish the same thing through the WP control panel for the WP settings. Ya, I know what you mean, I also use the PHPmyAdmin control panel through the WHW1 hosting control panel as a secondary measure. Just as you used it through BH’s hosting control panel. People think it is part of the hosting control panel. It is not. It is provided through the hosting control panel and not part of it, and is really an open source software started a long, long time ago. phpMyAdmin is a cool interface for database management. Awesome tool. Glad you got exposed to it. Now that you have used it, I suspect you will use it more often. Next play with the download feature of it, and search, and that will speed up your locating of such things like URLs or other words or phrases, or numbers.
    If you have never tried to manipulate your DBs without such a helpful DB management software, then you do not know how extremely lucky you are that all these tools are easily available for data maintenance/management and they work so well, and are easy.

    update:
    Just saw a typo on my above post. Meant to say, “If WP originally got installed…..”

    I thought you said your hosting provider BH, already did that, and failed.
    Okay, so your hosting provider did not do it correctly then.
    Good, you found it.
    Although, it is not really BH’s responsibility to do it anyways, as most know.

    If WP original got installed to the correct address, then you would have not needed to consume all that time and effort.

    Unfortunately, unlike other CMSs, WP is extremely picky about the URL it works with. With other CMS you can just have various domain names, subdomains, URLs all directed to the same site, and they work fine, and without having to make any URL changes in the DB or through the control panels. That’s why, when possible, I try to have it installed to the URL intended for use.

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    Two thumbs up for that link courtneydawn. I like. I like.
    Unfortunately it does not indicate how to move from PC to hosted site. Not yet at least.
    I quote:

    Moving Your Test WordPress Site to Your Website

    Coming soon – how to move your test site from your computer back live onto your host server site.

    Plus, I just do not see it worth it to go through all of that instead of spending $12 for a whole year of hosting.
    I compare it to:
    1. One click to install WP site.
    2. If you got special code or template, then upload of that stuff and slight modification of a few files.
    Doing FTP is not even needed.

    jamesjedi, you are welcome. Glad I could help.
    Although, now I am curious to know more about what specifically did not work when you tried the server on PC method? It should have worked on Vista.

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    The simple answer is YES, you need a web hosting. [moderated – please do not promote or discuss hosting on these forums per the guidelines]

    By “simulated hosting environment” i refer to what is created on your PC by what is described on the link by WPyogi.

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    I have done what you want done with [moderated] It should be straight forward. Also, no it is not weird that you can go through either domain with the folder after the domain name and see the same site. This is normal, and even wanted by some.
    IMO, your problem is purely a dns and site management problem and a bluehost hosting support problem.

    First I take it that you made an A record on your DNS to point to the same IPA of the existing site.
    In this case, you would install your WP as having the URL of http://www.mylenepaquette.com/mylene. Access it as http://www.mylenepaquette.com/mylene and you should see the site.
    You probably will need to setup a redirect so any traffic going directly to http://www.mylenepaquette.com is redirected to http://www.mylenepaquette.com/mylene.
    Yes, your site would always be http://www.mylenepaquette.com/mylene and not http://www.mylenepaquette.com.
    That is all.

    As you found out, you should also be able to see it to some partial working order at http://www.juliecloutier.com/mylene. This does not really matter. The only reason it is partial, is because of the way WP works, and not the hosting.

    By the way, whenever I want to install any CMS, like WP, onto a existing or production site, I always do a Full-Backup first. Just in case. [moderated]

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    Eek! Why are you having your site with Wix? That is a terrible choice in my opinion. You are just setting yourself up to never be found and have issues too.

    Honestly, this does not seem like the correct place to be making your request.

    After tracking your domain mame, it looks like WordPress is just a reseller of, I suspect, AstraGate Resell services, or a partner or another reseller of AstraGate Resell, which is really behind WWD, and also partnered with another major provider.

    This means that you have an account login for your domain name through some site created for the sale of domain names and branded for wordpress.com. So you should be logging into there and clicking on Domains selection or the domain name itself there. Then you would go to the manage dns section and update the A records as you need.

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    Looks like it is barely started and so not much there.
    So, have you tried to simply install another wordpress into the main site folder, and then copy content to the new install?
    I don’t know what is involved with your provider to install a WP site, but for me it is just a single mouse click for every WP site I want installed. I can have it under a folder like you did, or directly on the main folder of the site. So, I am guessing you choose to install it under a folder as a test first and then move it to the main site folder.

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    I am curious, does 1and1 not have an automated easy install for WP?
    Are you moving from one place to another?

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