buying a domain, hosting it and installing wordpress on the website
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How to purchase a domain, adding it on a hosting account and than installing wordpress CMS it. Check this step by step slide or guide on Buying a domain, Hosting it and installing wordpress on the website, By Jatin ChhabraTRANSCRIPT
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Buying a Doman, Hosting it and installing WordPress on it.By Jatin Chhabra
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Step 1:
Buying a domain from http://in.godaddy.com
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Click on Sign in with your login details
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Click Here
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Fill up your username and password & click Login
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Bring your cursor on Domains
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Click on Find a domain.
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Enter the name of the domain which you want to buy and click on Go,
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Luckily my domain is available so now I will just click on Continue.
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Business Registration & Certified Domain is optional. So I will just Scroll Down & click on “Continue to Cart”
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Its upto me whether I want this domain for an year or 5 years. Here I will change the Term from 5 years to 1 year and click on “Proceed to Checkout”
Its upto me whether I want this domain for an year or 5 years. Here I will change the Term from 5 years to 1 year and click on “Proceed to Checkout”
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Now I will choose my payment option from the left hand side and than click on “Continue”
Now I will choose my payment option from the left hand side and than click on “Continue”
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The next 4-5 steps are my banking details. So can’t give those screenshots :D
After the payment I will receive 2 mails from Godaddy.
So lets check the next slide.
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This is the email confirmation of my domain “treehouseresorts.in”. So now its confirmed that I have bought the domain.
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Step 2:
Hosting this domain on my Hostgator account.
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Returned back to my Godaddy account and clicked on “Manage My Domains” under Domain tab.
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Now I will click on the domain which I have just purchased. “treehouseresorts.in”
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1st we will click on “Manage” in Nameserver option.
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Choose custom.
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Click on “Add nameservers”
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Now I have to fill up your Hostgator name servers. If I can’t locate them than just search the mail which hostgator dropped me at the time of purchasing the hosting plan.
They will be mentioned like this:Nameserver 1: xxxx.hostgator.in (xxx.xx.xx.xx)Nameserver 2: xxxx.hostgator.in (xxx.xx.xx.xx)(X are replaces with some digits)
Now I will add the Nameserver 1 & 2 (till .in, not the numbers after that) in these 2 boxes and click on OK
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Now my Hostgator nameservers are updated on my godaddy bought domain account. So jI will ust click on save.
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I will click on DNS Zone & the below screen will be visible & then I will click on “Edit” on the right hand side.
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A new screen will open and now I will click on the IP Address (numbers)
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Fill up the “Temporary FTP Hostname” which came along with my hostgator name servers mail.
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Now just click on “Save Zone File”
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Now we will move towards my Hosting account (Hostgator) and will install WordPress on my domain.
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Step 1: Open your Control Panel URL. If you can’t find it than check the same email where you have your Name server and Temporary FTP Hostname.
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This is the my Control Panel URL page. So I will just login to enter.
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This is my Hostgator Hosting Panel Page or Dashboard.
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Scroll down and click on Addon Domains under Domain column..
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1st I will add the domain, as here its treehouseresorts.in and just press Tab button as then the next 2 boxes will automatically get filled. Now I will add a password & click in “Add Domain”
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This window implies that my domain is now hosted on my Hostgator panel.
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Now I have added my domain (treehouseresorts.in) in Hostgator hosting panel and it took me just 10 minutes.
Now I just need to install WordPress in treehouseresorts.in
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Now I have come back to my Hostgator home page by clicking on the HOME icon on top left.
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Now scroll down and click on “Quick Install” under software and services.
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This is the panel of “Quick Install” and from here I will install Wordpress. You can see that I have already installed Wordpress on few sites so they are displayed just above this box.
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Here I will click on “Wordpress” under Blog Software.
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Now I need to click on “Continue”
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1st I will click at http:// and will choose the domain where I want to install WordPress. That will be treehouseresorts.in.
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Now I will add my admin email (or my mail id), Blog title (just add the site name as later we can change it in WP) and First & Last name. After this I will click on “Install Now”
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This Congratulations mean that I have install WordPress successfully in treehouseresorts.in. I will also get a mail on my Admin ID (One which I filled in previous slide) with the username and password of my wordpress site.
Just wait for 5 minutes to 4 hours and I will have my site running with a default Wordpress theme.
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So that’s its. WordPress default theme is installed on treehouseresorts.in.
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It took like 12 minutes to purchase a domain from Godaddy India, host it on my Hostgator account and than install a WordPress theme on it. If I am ever stuck in this process, then I will just call Hostgator.In (not .com) 24/7 helpline No. Which is 1800-209-8833
Hope this slideshare was useful.
Cheers,Jatin Chhabra