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Moving from free wordpress to Hosting with Godaddy

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bigbluefoo said 1 year, 1 month ago:

My site (kindlereleases.com) is currently on the free hosted version of wordpress. I have tried to install wordpress on GD but when I click on the admin link it redirects me to my free wordpress admin. It also doesn’t accept the credentials I add when installing WP in GD.

Does this have something to do with me mapping the kindlereleases domain to the kindlereleases.wordpress.com domain?

What am I missing.

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GoDaddy Expert christianh said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@bigbluefoo

You can move from WordPress.com by following these instructions:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog

When you are ready to point to your hosting account, you need to update to the hosting nameservers:

http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/664

–Christian

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bigbluefoo said 1 year, 1 month ago:

Thanks, Christian – do I have to change my nameservers first? Right now my.com is redirecting the the .wordpress blog – consequently, when I click on my admin link in here I am just getting redirected to the blog instead of a new blog to start creating: http://kindlereleases.wordpress.com/wordpress/wp-admin/

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GoDaddy Expert timb said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@bigbluefoo

It looks as though your domain is resolving to our nameservers, however your A record is not pointing to the correct IP address for your hosting plan. This will need to be updated in order to access your admin section:

Finding Your Hosting Account’s IP Address
Managing DNS for Your Domain Names

Tim B

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