Im using Vbulletin forum before it is allover in my root directory with my domain.in and now i want to host wordpress blog with a different domain like www.domain.org can anybody let me know how to do it step by step thanx in advance frds let me tell u i already configured mysql database and all but struggling to get this domain thing rite thanx
If it is on separate hosting, yea, just go through a typical WordPress install. I'm not sure if there is more to this, but if your situation is like mine, this might help. If the new domain is an add-on domain to your primary domain, like my web host has setup for my first site and my other sites, than your WordPress files will go in the domains sub-folder in your root folder. For example: First site is example.in, located in public_html/ Second site is example2.com, located in public_html/example2/ At least that is how my host is set up. If that is the case though, other than the files being placed in the sub-folder, almost everywhere else will refer to it as the root (/) of example2.com
Assuming you already have the other domain registered, I don't see what one has to do with the other. If they are going to be on different domains, it's 2 different sites. I am not understanding the problem.
The matter is 2 domains and in a single FTP account 1) I already have a Vbulletin forum with a name called music4india.in 2) Now, I Registered a new domain which i want to convert into Wordpress Blog 3) So, I Went into website Cpanel and made added my new domain in Cpanel. In FTP account i found new folder with that Domain name. 4) Next step is i uploaded all the files in that folder !!! i did configured even Database. 5)When i was trying to install Wordpress with www.domain.com/wp-admin/install.php i was not able to do it !! 6)But, When i tried to install with other option www.music4india.in/domain/wp-admin/install.php i did installed wordpress 7) And when i tried to open with www.domain.com its not opening, www.music4india.in/domain/wp-admin/install.php when i tried with this <<< url it worked !!! this is the whole matter i want to open the website with this URL www.domain.com !!! thanx in advance friends if anybody can help me please
I am sorry but I was unable to follow up ur language plz re-phrase the entire post, I can understand only you have a vb forum named some music, after that every thing is confusing and doesn't make a proper sense to me :
Your files are in the correct spot. You say it doesn't work from domain.com/wp-admin/install.php. What does happen? Do you get a 404 error, a 500 error, or does the WordPress install try and fail, or something else? What about just going to domain.com? There are still several possibilities. If your getting a 404 error, try renaming the WordPress index.php to something like indexBak.php and uploading a simple index.html with a little content (an h1 heading would be enough) and see if you can access that from domain.com. That at least would rule out several possibilities. If that doesn't work, then either DNS is still propagating around the world or there is another problem between the host and the addon domain. How long has it been since the addon domain was added? DNS propagation could take a while (anywhere from 4-48 hours in my experience, but I'm in the US, so India may take longer). You might try accessing it from a different internet provider (my cellular provider had my DNS changes faster than my local DSL provider). Otherwise there is probably something else wrong between the host and the addon domain, and you may need to contact them to get it straightened out.
Looks like you installed wordpress on a folder of music4india.in , which you shouldn't have done. the 2 have nothing to do with each other...it doesn't have anything to do with FTP. If you want to install wordpress on the new domain, you shouldn't need to mess with music4india.in at all, just install on the new domain. You cannot convert what is on music4india.in into Wordpress, you have to start from scratch. You cannot install wordpress on one domain, and access it with another unless you forward the domain. If this is working This means that your wordpress files are installed on www.music4india.in/domain and not on the new domain. Go back and check where your files are.
It sounds to me like he has registered a new domain, and is hosting it as an addon domain to his hosting account. In that case, the files are located in a sub-folder of the primary domain public html folder. This is how my host is setup. However, if the new domain was registered with a different host (or different hosting account), then yea, they are completely separate and you shouldn't have created the addon domain. For instance, by default, I can access one of my addon domains three ways: addon-domain.com primary-domain.com/addon-domain/ addon-domain.primary-domain.com Of course WordPress rewrites the URL to just addon-domain.com and all navigation follows suit.
Ah ha! That would make sense. Then in that case he needs to separate the new domain as it's own separate root, and then everything should work fine.
I just had access to his account and it was exactly set up as u mentioned, I have never seen such a set up before, it looks too complicated for me, I have had experience dealing on vps and Dedi, but this is was a vps (divided for shared hosting) split plan he is using - so I asked him to get his host assistance to deal with it up, his new wp based doesn't open gives Internal Server Error and t he contact mail provided really surprised me, it was like ;; @hman - how would u add the domain to root, he is not using vps or dedi, he has control panel pointed towards his main domain
I don't know, I have never heard of such a thing. Why would you have one domain set as a child of another ? Seems to defeat the purpose of having the new domain. Especially when you could use redirects or make subdomains on the root. I don't see the point.
The child/parent relation is only how things work on the backend. The subfolder serves as the root directory for the addon domain. The addon domain's root folder is based on the location in the server's file system, not it's relation to the primary domains root folder. So while domainA has files at /home/usrname/public_html/, domainB is set to have files at /home/usrname/public_html/domainB. Or at least that is how my host, HostMonster, has done this since I switched to them over a year ago. I think they are related to hostgator and bluehost, all the same company I think (though I may be very wrong about that). So in that sense, I made the assumption that several hosts are starting to do this, but if both of you have never seen this, maybe not. That email setup is odd though. Mine works like a normal domain would. But it could possibly be similar to how I can access the addon domain three different ways, you could access the mail system different ways. As for the cpanel, all the domains access the same one. I can put domainA.com:2082 and domainB.com:2082, and both access the same thing. But the url stays at whatever domain you entered. Even filemanager for domainB comes out as domainB.com:2082/.... but loads the users folder (/home/username) the same as domainA would. So its an internal server 500 error then? Hmm, that makes it a bit harder without error messages or direct access. Could be files didn't all upload properly, causing unfinished PHP statements (but it works from the primary domain, right?). Could be htaccess issues. I doubt it is a database error, as you should get an error message for that, but possible. Could try configuring the wp-config.php manually, but contacting the host may be the easiest idea right now. Otherwise, I would say to set php.ini to display errors so we can get more information. Some host's even have file permissions that are too strict for WordPress to install itself. There are still lots of possibilities.
Yep, that's the generic 500 error. My experience has led me to believe it is usually a PHP error somewhere, but I did a few test and this may be different. I attempted to load a page I new didn't exist (jumble of keystrokes) and still got the error 500. Trying to load a page that doesn't exist should have returned a 404, (though the 500 error says it has a problem too, so I don't know). I'm not very experienced with these problems (I try to avoid them), and the problems I have had were almost always PHP related. If your host can't help you, my best guess would be some trial and error. Lets take WordPress out of the equation if we can. Upload a simple html file for index.html and rename index.php so it doesn't take over. See if you can access that. If so, great we can move on. If not, I don't think the problem is PHP related. It could be .htaccess or something that your host has to take care of. They should be able to easily look at the logs and see the problem. For all I know, the problem could be that the host somehow misconfigured the addon domain.