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Dreamhost says it may take a day or two as DSN propagates. I guess I won’t know for sure until then. Maybe this should be considered “solved” until my next issue comes up and I’ll make a new post.

Thanks for all the the great input from the friendly wordpress members! You have cleared up a very basic problem for me, haha.

Well! Maybe that’s all I need to do then. I guess I assumed by being hosted through DreamHost and creating a domain name with them was all included in the monthly payments. I just finished registering it so I’m going to give it a few minutes!

I checked the DreamHost support link given by Mike and so far it says “no problems found” for prairiepariah.com… which tells me nothing. As far as I can see it should be registered but I’ll have to snoop around DreamHost for any anomalies. Maybe along the way I missed a step? I’m not sure.

I will try the other suggestions you guys have given me. Also, there is a “one-click installs” option on DreamHost where I can install wordpress so I’m trying that right now (it says to wait ten minutes).

I will write back with my progress! Thanks for your help so far guys.

My domain name is supposed to be prairiepariah.com and the subdirectory would have the /blog after it but so far no dice.

Michael, I’m not sure what you mean by nameservers. Is this something that needs to be checked through DreamHost?

Starapple, so far I’ve been at this since Friday and it’s still sending me to the not found page. But you’re saying I can use my IP address to access my server? Is there a page that shows me how to do this?

Thanks for your speedy replies! All help is needed ??