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  • Ok, well I can’t say I know much about wordpress. But I have done a couple installs on machines not on GoDaddy’s network. I just signed up with GoDaddy with an Economy Linux plan and registered the domain https://www.protocollon.com for my podcast. You can check it out know, but it is just the standard template as I literally just found this forum and decided to try things out for myself. Anyways, here is my step by step.

    1. Log into your hosting Control Panel and click on MySQL.
    2. Click Create New Database and give it a unique name, in my case I used protowordpress
    3. Give it a password and click ok.
    4. Click next and give it about 5 minutes, then click on your database in the MySQL manager.
    5. It should bring up a page that says Database Name, then under that Host Name. In my case, mysql93.secureserver.net.
    6. Download a fresh install of wordpress. I used 2.0 because it was easy to find.
    7. Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and open it in textedit.
    8. Edit these lines below to match your info. Here is mine for example, except with a different password.

    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘protowordpress’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘protowordpress’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘2password2’); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘mysql93.secureserver.net’);

    9. Save the document.
    10. Select everything in your wordpress folder and FTP all of it to the root directory of your GoDaddy server.
    11. Go to https://www.yourserver.com/wp-admin/install.php
    and run it through the steps.
    12. Go to https://www.yourserver.com and see what comes up, it should be the bog standard template.

    This worked on first try for me, and it took less than 15 minutes from purchasing my account from GoDaddy to having wordpress running.

    -GD

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