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How to Install WordPress on Hostgator Hosting
HostGator is one of the most popular Web Hosting company and it is being used by many successful blogs worldwide. Installing WordPress using HostGator control panel is very easy and HostGator offers the easiest way to install software and scripts with Fantastico auto script installer. We have added a review of Hostgator recently and to give special treat to all those who have recently signed up with Hostgator, I think a detailed tutorial on installing wordpress on host gator will be useful for them. Fantastico is an amazing free script in HostGator controlpanel with which users can install WordPress within seconds.
Installing WordPress step by step
Log into your Hostgator cPanel (control panel).
Scroll down until you’re near the bottom of the page
Locate the section entitled “Software/Services.”
Click on the Fantastico icon. It’s the one with the blue smiley face.
Click the “WordPress” text link on the left sidebar.
Click on “New Instillation.”
Choose which domain you want this WordPress install to be on. If you’ve got an individual site hosting plan, this will default to your one domain. If you have a shared hosting plan, choose which domain you want this WordPress install to be on.
“Admin access data,” is where you’ll put the login name and password you want to use to log into your WordPress blog dashboard.
Fill in the “Base Configuration” fields with the name you want to be associated with all the posts you write in your new blog. Also, add in your email address and the website’s domain name for your new blog.
Click “Install WordPress.”
You’re done. You’ve just installed WordPress on your new website. Make a note of your login information and/or print out the information on the screen so that you can remember how/where to log in so that you can access your new blog.
You will be given the domain information, to make sure that it’s being installed on the correct domain. If it looks good, click “Finish Instillation.”
HostGator cPanel – 301 Domain Redirection
Lots of webhosting providers which have cPanel offer you a function call redirects and utilizing this, you’ll be able to redirect any domain to new domain or non www version to www version of website and vice versa. In this tutorial, I’m explaining how it is possible to use 301 domain redirection function in Hostgator Hosting. If you are not conscious about Hostgator, I recommend you to have a look at Hostgator reviews page.
301 Redirect Using HostGator cPanel
If you want to give 301 redirect to a domain to any other address but unable to do this using .htaccess file then you can do this direct from your hosting control panel. With hosting control panel you can redirect a naked domain to www or you can also redirect it to any other domain or a webpage under a domain to any other page under the same or different domain. Here is a simple and easy to understand tutorial how to redirect a domain using HostGator cPanel.
Redirecting a naked domain to www
Warning: Use this method only if your preferred domain is with www such as in blogger blog. If your preferred domain is a naked domain, it causes infinite loops i.e your domain is continuously redirecting between www and non www.
- First login to your HostGator hosting account
- Now go to the tab “domains” >Redirect
Now fill the data as given below
- Select option 301 redirect
- Select your domain to redirect
- Enter the domain name with www
- Select redirect method “Do Not Redirect www.”
- Then press “add redirect”
Redirecting a domain to any other domain
- Select redirection type 301 or 302 as you want
- Select the domain to redirect
- Enter the domain name or webpage address as a destination
- Select redirect type “Redirect with or without www.”
How to Redirection Using .htaccess file
But finally we say that using .htaccess file to give redirections is the best method but it require advance editing.
Redirecting a naked domain with www
- Edit your .htaccess file using notepad and add the following line to redirect naked domain to www
- redirect 301 / http://www.yourdomain.com/
Redirect any webpage to any address
- redirect 301 /example.htmlhttp://www.other.com/new.htm