Mac OSX Installation problem

  • I’m not sure what I am doing wrong and this ‘5 minute installation’ has gone way beyond that. I currently have a blog on blogger that I am trying to bring over to WordPress. I pay name.com for the domain name and I currently have it pointing to blog as a redirect (hope I said that right) on blogger.

    I purchased hosting from host gator. Downloaded wordpress…could NOT figure out why its not working. Then I tried the quick installation in the cPanel with Mojo Marketplace. It installed (I think) and it gives me a link to my site with /wp-admin at the end of my .com site and a password. I click the link. My site says the page does not exist. Why don’t I see the log in page?

    I also read on the hostgator site that I needed to change the name servers so I followed their direction and changed it.

    What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it? The only thing I am able to log onto is the hosting and not wordpress.

    I am running a Mac OS X and I would love to make this as simple as possible, but the instructions are not friendly for someone who has never done it before.

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  • I currently have a blog on blogger…
    I pay name.com for the domain name…
    I currently have it pointing to blog as a redirect…
    I purchased hosting from host gator…
    I tried the quick installation in the cPanel…
    It gives me a link to my site…
    My site says the page does not exist.

    I also read on the hostgator site that I needed to change the name servers so I followed their direction and changed it.

    The only thing I am able to log onto is the hosting…

    If I have understood you correcrtly, you have gone to name.com and pointed your domain to HostGator. It can take some time for your DNS to propagate after doing that, and that *might* be why your domain is not finding your WordPress. Before you try changing anything, I would check with the Support Staff at HostGator to see what someone there might do to help you with your initial connection.

    I am running a Mac OS X

    That should be irrelevant here.

    I would love to make this as simple as possible, but the instructions are not friendly for someone who has never done it before.

    I sometimes suspect nobody really knows how all these things work and even the experts at times just poke around until something does!

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