Dreamhost.com Question

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by dqtjackson, Apr 17, 2011.

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    I just signed up to host my site on Dreamhost.com and installed wordpress. Does it take a while for everything to get up and running? Because I can't even login to edit site content or anything. I get the 404 (Page Not Found) error. Does it usually take a day or so before everything starts up? Or is something wrong?
     
    dqtjackson, Apr 17, 2011 IP
  2. LemPress

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    #2
    Yeah it takes a few hours.. Usually pretty fast if its .com, but sometimes loner for other countries suffix
     
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    Have you got your domain pointing to the correct nameservers?
     
    1812, Apr 17, 2011 IP
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    You're right, the domain didn't have the correct nameservers. I changed them just now so hopefully it works.
     
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    It's always the most obvious thing... but don't worry, we've all done it at some point ;-)
     
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    Ah, sometime you give people too much credit.. ;)
     
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    Thanks, does it usually take a day or so for the switch to take full affect?
     
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    They always say allow 24 hours, however, depending on how good they are, I usually find mine work within 10 minutes
     
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    Thanks a lot, you've been very helpful. I'll just wait until tomorrow and check up on it again because I'm still getting the 404 error page.
     
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    Yeah, although you could try clearing out your cache and restarting your pc...
     
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    Check Name server.
     
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