[parodytx]

Please walk me through what I need to do to get this process up and running, or point me to a how-to guide. I did not think I was this obtuse but apparently not being a Linux user is working against me.

What I wish to accomplish is the following (for now)
1. Move my domain name (www.mydomain.com) from 1and1.com to ASO.
2. Set up a Wordpress blog so that any one who ends up at www.mydomain.com sees my landing page for the Wordpress blog.
3. Move my blog contents from 1and1.com to ASO.

I have figured out most of the cpanel functions so most of that makes sense, except for the file name structures. So what I have done is:

1. Gone to 1and1.com and changed the DNS of www.mydomain.com to the ASO DNS (ns1 & ns2). After 48 hours, on some computers I still get the old landing page for www. mydomain.com; on others I get the "Index of /" page, where it lists ".cgi-bin/" and ".username/" as directories.
2. Set up an FTP account. When I use my FTP client and ftp onto mydomain.com, I see myself as root (/).
3. Created a database in MySQL, named username_blog and a user username_me.
4. Uploaded the latest Wordpress install to root using FTP
5. Connected to www.mydomain.com, clicked on the .username/ dir, and got the Wordpress "you need a config.php' etc etc. I filled in the parameters of the SQL database, it liked it, then got a PHP error which says:

No such file or directory in /home/loginname/public_html/username/wp-settings.php on line 388

As I said, all I want is to get the blog up for now, but I cannot get past this despite multiple tries of deleting all and starting over.

Finally, I have a directory of files with all my JPGs from the blog - I need to move these over but where do I put them? And what would be the absolute file reference URL (//localhost/etc etc?)

Any help you can give will be invaluable.

Ultimately, I would like to move www.mydomain2.com and www.mydomain3.com to this account as well with the same situation (landing page = blog.)

Thanks in advance for any replies.

[MoreOrangy]

Hey - did you get this to work? The forums are very dead - you're probably better off writing to help@ASO directly... They're extremely helpful!

parodytx, on 04 February 2010 - 01:59 PM, said:

Please walk me through what I need to do to get this process up and running, or point me to a how-to guide. I did not think I was this obtuse but apparently not being a Linux user is working against me.

[parodytx]

Yes, after trial and error.

First, Firefox requires that you erase all history from the cache or it keeps serving up the old pages. So Tools/Clear Recent History - now works like a charm.

Second, adding on the domains was simple - just use the addon feature in cPanel - they get their own subdir.

The addon domains get added into a subdir of /public_html, but the the index page gets loaded when you type in the domain so no problems.

Now just trying to get 1and1 to release the domains so that I can cancel the package there - what a nightmare that is becoming.

parodytx

MoreOrangy, on 16 February 2010 - 07:12 AM, said:

Hey - did you get this to work? The forums are very dead - you're probably better off writing to help@ASO directly... They're extremely helpful!

parodytx, on 04 February 2010 - 01:59 PM, said:

Please walk me through what I need to do to get this process up and running, or point me to a how-to guide. I did not think I was this obtuse but apparently not being a Linux user is working against me.