rjbowe

Thank you all for your support.
I tried to login with that method. It still came up with a 404 not found message, but this one was at least from the host gator site, so I knew I was getting closer. I ended up calling their help line. They told me that the site was still being routed to yahoo and that was screwing everything up. I set up a temp url and I’m building the site through that for now. I appreciate your patience. God bless you all and I’m sure I’ll be starting another topic on here within the next few days. I’m still learning.

yes, the domain I have registered right now with HG is the one I listed earlier. There’s another forum on here https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/installing-wordpress-to-replace-existing-website?replies=5 which pretty much explains exactly what my intention is. The only problem is that they all kind of assume that WordPress is already installed… which is the problem I’m having. So, 2ninerniner2, you’re saying that I need to contact HG and set up a temporary domain and do all the work in that and just switch it once I’m finished? Will that mess up his SEO standing at all? Thank you so far for all your help. I appreciate it.

well, he wants the whole site to be through wordpress, so I thought it would be better/easier/etc. to just have wordpress in the root domain. will I be able to power the whole website through wordpress if it’s in a sub folder?