install.php

Okay, I am SO confused.

I have a blog with wordpress.com at gervasij.wordpress.com.

I decided that I wanted my own domain so I went to godaddy.com and had one set up. I also purchased hosting.

I went back to wordpress.com and mapped my domain. Now when I type in gervasij.wordpress.com, it is automatically forwarded to jasongervase.com.

Perfect.

Then I downloaded www.remarpro.com 2.7, changed the info in ‘wp-config.php’ as needed and uploaded everything to my server using Fetch.

But when I go to ‘jasongervase.com/wp-admin/install.php’, it says “Sorry, the page you are looking for does not exist”.

I’ve poured through the forum for answers but found nothing.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks.

So, what are you wanting to do…keep your blog at wp.com and have your domain name mapped to it? Sounds like you got that working.

Or, do you want to host your own WordPress blog on your godaddy account? If so, then you don’t need to map to the wp.com…you need to keep your domain name resolving to your Godaddy account and install your blog there.

So I didn’t need to map the domain ? How do I unmap it then?

P.S. Yes, I want to host my blog on my godaddy account.

I don’t have a wp.com account, but how did you map your domain there? Did you set the name servers in your godaddy account to resolve to their servers? If so, you need to undo that and set them back to the godaddy servers.

Yes, I set the name servers to resolve to wp. I’ll fix that. Which should I use – “park my domains here” or “host my domains here”?

I have lots of domain names with Godaddy, but no hosting account…I assume you want to select host my domains here. You need to set it so it connects to your godaddy hosting account…the way it was. Then you can install WP on that account and have it work.

It worked, sort of! When I go to install.php, I get the following:

Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at h41mysql52.secureserver.net. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?

If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.

On godaddy you may need to enter something other than localhost in the db connect setting in wp-config.php

This means one (or more) of the following values in wp-config.php is incorrect:

db name
db user
db user password
db connect

Bad news – while changing the host domain in nameservers worked initially, it eventually referred to its original settings so now when i go to my domain, it takes me to my wordpress.com blog. Is there another way to completely unmap the domain?

It could take up to 48-hours for the change to propagate.

I don’t think it will have any impact, but I assume you could go into your wp.com blog and reverse whatever you did…have you tried that?

I looked – there aren’t any options that allows me to do so.

Well, as long as you changed where your domain name is resolving to then it shouldn’t matter…it just may take a little longer to propagate.

Giasone80,
did you figure out how to unmap the dns, I’m having the exact same problem you are and don’t know what to do.
thanks for any advise you can give me.