Purchased Domain from GoDaddy, Mapped Domain on WordPress, Domain not working?

  • Last night, I created a free blog on WordPress and then I purchased a Domain from Godaddy. I then purchased the domain mapping from WordPress. I then forwarded the domain on GoDaddy. When I go to put my URL in and try to open the URL, it comes up with an error “This webpage has a redirect loop, ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS”. What can I do to fix this so my new domain will go to my wordpress. Do I need to get hosting?

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  • In my experience you always need to get hosting of some kind or another. I prefer the hosting package from GoDaddy that includes FTP access so I can manually upload and troubleshoot the server but the WordPress package they have is not bad, I use it for my wife’s site.

    It looks to me like you have GoDaddy pointed to your WordPress blog, then the WordPress blog directing to GoDaddy. You are pointing back and forth without directing the visitor to anything at the end of the chain.

    Where are the actual files that make up the WordPress install? The MySql database?

    Without hosting the files on a server somewhere there is nothing to point the domain at. It seems you have the first steps done, but nothing at the end of the sequence for the browser to actually display.

    Hello,
    wordpress.com support should be able to help you with this.
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

    Thanks.

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