WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Hostgator + WordPress http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Hostgator + WordPress en Fri, 24 May 2013 09:59:38 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 macmanx on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1029419 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:07:42 +0000 macmanx 1029419@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome!

]]> shrutigoins on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1029415 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:06:04 +0000 shrutigoins 1029415@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Will do - thank you!

]]> macmanx on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1029407 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:00:41 +0000 macmanx 1029407@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, if it doesn't stop within the next few days, please let us know.

Sorry about that!

]]> shrutigoins on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1029394 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:52:50 +0000 shrutigoins 1029394@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yup. I've been getting emails the past few days from WordPress upgrades saying:

Howdy, you recently asked us to activate the domain mapping upgrade to use your domain name shrutigoins.me as the address of your site shrutigoins.wordpress.com

As explained during the purchase process, the last step requires you to change your domain name DNS settings to use:

]]> macmanx on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1029390 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:50:30 +0000 macmanx 1029390@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Are you referring to shrutigoins.me ? If so, it should stop very shortly.

]]> shrutigoins on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1029385 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:47:32 +0000 shrutigoins 1029385@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Perfect.

How do I get WordPress.com to stop emailing me about updating my nameservers since they are actually correct in pointing to hostgator? :)

]]> macmanx on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1029362 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:29:28 +0000 macmanx 1029362@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Domain Mapping is part of the Domain Registration package and cannot be canceled separately.

As long as you have changed the name servers, your domain will direct to hostgator.

]]> auxclass on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1028702 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 05:12:48 +0000 auxclass 1028702@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Great - forward progress

Try Dashboard >> Store >> see if you can find a cancel button in one of the areas (My Upgrades area) - I can't remember the time frame for canceling domain mapping - I have flagged this for staff attention to help you if you can't find a cancel button

]]> shrutigoins on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1028685 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:09:45 +0000 shrutigoins 1028685@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OK! I have a website!

How do I cancel the domain mapping?

]]> auxclass on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1027697 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:18:36 +0000 auxclass 1027697@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You be welcome & good luck

]]> shrutigoins on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1027694 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:15:28 +0000 shrutigoins 1027694@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Gotcha - thanks!

]]> auxclass on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1027690 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 07:02:00 +0000 auxclass 1027690@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Don't cancel your domain name registration - you need that for your Hostgator site to work - you have changed the name servers and that part is fine

You can cancel your domain mapping since that is what makes a domain name work with a blog here

]]> shrutigoins on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1027685 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:47:26 +0000 shrutigoins 1027685@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Awesome, I will contact them then. So just to make sure I completely follow - I don't need to cancel my domain name, just make sure Hostgator is looking for it?

]]> auxclass on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1027669 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:11:09 +0000 auxclass 1027669@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes your name servers are pointing to Hostgator - however your Hostgator account needs to be set up properly to "catch" the domain name when the name servers are set to Hostgator - sorry don't remember exactly what needs to be done - the last one I did I just ask my host to fix it - you will need to check at Hostgator to see what needs to be done there -

good luck

]]> shrutigoins on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1027667 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 06:04:57 +0000 shrutigoins 1027667@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi auxclass -

Typo on my part - thank you for catching that. It is shrutigoins.me.

I thought that I can just change the nameservers on wordpress.com for this domain to direct them to the hostgator servers?

Thanks :)

]]> auxclass on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1027660 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:35:18 +0000 auxclass 1027660@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You spell your domain name two different ways above - - -

shrutigoins.me is domain mapped to a blog here so you should ask for a refund on the domain mapping since you will not be using it - have you configured your hostgator account properly? spelling the domain name wrong at Hostgator will crash your web site there -

I have flagged this for the staff to help you

]]> shrutigoins on "Hostgator + WordPress" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/hostgator-wordpress#post-1027623 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 03:43:28 +0000 shrutigoins 1027623@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I made the mistake of not realizing that wordpress.org and wordpress.com are not the same thing. On wordpress.com (before the realization), I bought shrutigoins.me. One I realized what I had done, I signed up for a hosting service (hostgator) and changed my nameserver settings on wordpress.com to point to hostgator. This was all Saturday.

I know it takes 24-72 hours, so that may be the reason it's not live yet. However, when I go to shrutigoins.me (to see if it still fails), the URL bar says http://www.shrutgions.me. Is that OK? I don't know if that's the domain that I bought or not - I know it shouldn't matter, but some hosts require (I believe) that you setup a redirect. Is this something I need to do - and can do now?

Also, I received an email from wordpress.com about in order to complete my domain mapping upgrade, I need to update my DNS settings to wordpress FROM hostgator. So, it is seeing that I am using hostgator.

Do I need to do anything to make this work, or am I just waiting?

(For reference, I'm going to shrutigoins.me/default.html since I know that page exists.)

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