Hey guys, I recently bought a site - Although I have a few sites already it is the first time I've bought one. I thought transfering would be pretty simple but I've made a balls up of it and now I'm stuck! Well, first, the seller pushed his domain name to my godaddy account. Then, stupidly, I changed the nameservers to point the domain to my host BEFORE I transfered any files over to my side. So, I re-pointed the nameservers back to the sellers host but now it won't let me login to the sellers control panel and the site just shows up as a broken link. What have I done wrong and what do I need to do to fix it? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance Altug P.S I have emailed the seller for help but time difference is big between us.
a domain transfer take almost 2 days to 1 week so i would wait untill then and a name server updates take up to 24 hours. you can also do a full backup on your countrol panel
Ok kool it's back thanks for your reply. I have another question now. The seller has the blog on wordpress - When I transfer all of the files over to my host what do I do about carrying over the wordpress information? Do I just login to wordpress with the details given to me? Would I not need to install wordpress on to my own control panel? The part that is confusing me is that it is asking me before installing wordpress to create a new login etc. Will this not get rid of all the site content if I install a fresh wordpress on to the domain? Hope these questions make sense. I've never worked with wordpress before so apologies for the noob questions. Thanks a lot for the help again Best wishes Altug
best is to ask the seller to give the db and files and u can simply dump those in your hosting and change db details and it will be ok to setup the site
To transfer wordpress blog, you will require to transfer all the web contents as well as MySQL database of the wordpress blog. Kailash
Thanks a lot for all your help. Khailash, my question now actually relates to your post..Everything has gone smoothly until I imported the sellers mysql database. Now I can't log in to my wordpress. What is the correct way to get all the websites contents and posts transfered on to the site? When I transfered all the files from wp-content, it was still only showing the "hello world" single post. Now I've imported his database, I have all the posts etc but now I can't login...this has frustrated me all day I've spent 8 hours trying to transfer this site lol
2 days to a week for a transfer? If the loosing registrar accepts the transfer it can be down in a matter of hours. The last one I did took under 2 hours. Thats the difference between service and lousy service. As for the OP I would contact your hosting company to see if they can resolve your problem with the name servers.