Manually Installing WordPress to Godaddy

  • marksports

    (@marksports)


    15 years ago

    Hey,

    I need some solid help on this. I have gone through the article https://help.godaddy.com/article/5110 and am not accomplishing what looks so easy. I have tried to contact godaddy and they really just want me to pay monthly instead of manually install so they aren’t a ton of help. But i can’t blame them, they need to make their dollars same as me.

    I get to the FTP and cannot connect to the host site that I set up in mySQL on any third party clients such as filezilla or cyberduck. However, I can on their FTP client so when I added the wordpress files to the remote server and then I try to go to my domain /wp-admin/install.php it takes me to the page that says this page does not exist on my existing domain which is just forwarded from my .wordpress.com account to the .com.

    Where am I going wrong? Is it on godaddy’s end or am I doing something wrong? Any help would be sweet and I can explain more if needed thanks!

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  • briealeida

    (@briealeida)

    Not sure if I understand what you’re driving at. Were you able to successfully upload the files? Did you create the database successfully?

    What is this business about a forward? If there were already files existing in the folder you uploaded the WP files to, they could conflict.

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    Brie

    Thread Starter marksports

    (@marksports)

    Alright let me try to help clear things up. ?? That did sound pretty confusing.

    As of right now I am forwarding my wordpress.com account to our domain name. So to our own .com but everything is still edited and done through wordpress.com but yet when they go to our .com it looks like it his hosted through the .com.

    However, I want to get away from this forward to the point where we are just using wordpress as the backdrop and move away from themes and having our own web layout and design.

    On godaddy they have their own FTP client in their hosting control center and I uploaded the files to my website’s remote server that we are hosting on their site. I followed the steps to create a MySQL on the guides and yet when I do a FTP and try to connect to my remote server from a third party it doesn’t work only on their website. (however I could be doing this wrong)

    Then when I go to the /wp-admin/install.php on my site the page is not there even though the files are on my remote server.

    Is it cause of the forward? or is it something screwy that I am doing wrong? is it something I need to clear up on godaddy’s end? or something I am doing wrong from this end?

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