Confused about hosting

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  sociomenace · Member · Jul 23, 2014 at 2:57 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m having trouble understanding where my site is hosted and I think I’m in over my head. I originally purchased my domain privately and then made the wordpress page but I want to now move my site over to private hosting so I can use plugins.

  I don’t think I made a free wordpress page and I have set up nameservers on my server and pointed my domain to them.

  How do I transfer my site over and obtain the plugins sidebar?

  Any info would be much appreciated.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 23, 2014 at 5:26 pm

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  I want to now move my site over to private hosting so I can use plugins

  Although surrealwriters.com has been registered, it is not using WordPress.com nameservers. If your domain is mapped to a self-hosted site, then your configuration may be fine as currently set up.

  surrealwriters.com is hosted by OVH Hosting
  WHOIS: Click Here
  IP Address: 192.99.10.155
  Name Servers:
  ns2.surrealwriters.com
  ns1.surrealwriters.com

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate and have different logins http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 23, 2014 at 5:28 pm

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  1. Set up a WordPress.org install and equip it with a theme and plugins.
  http://wordpress.org/themes/
  http://wordpress.org/plugins/

  2. Export your content out of your WordPress.com blog http://en.support.wordpress.com/export/ and import it into the install.

  3. Or if you have domain mapping then see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/#change-name-servers-to-point-the-domain-outside-of-wordpress-com and here http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/
  That’s already been done.

  4. Transfer subscribers http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/moving-your-subscribers/

  5. Set your wordpress.com blog visibility to private. To change blog visibility to private go to > Settings > Reading scroll to Blog Visibility and choose option 3 . See the guide here http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

  P.S. I’ll tag this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.

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  jackiedana · Member · Jul 23, 2014 at 8:57 pm

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  If you want to export the content from http://surrealwriters.wordpress.com/ to your self-hosted site, please follow timethief’s instructions below, specifically #2 for exporting the content.

  If you need additional assistance with a self-hosted installation of WordPress, please start here: http://wordpress.org/support/ . Note that on that page there are links to “Getting Started” resources as well as a support forum you can use for further questions.

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  sociomenace · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 3:47 pm

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  Thank you for the responses it’s much appreciated.

  I will get started and being the process.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 3:48 pm

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  Best wishes with your move.

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  sociomenace · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 4:10 pm

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  Thank you.

  So I managed to get my head around the name change with the servers and I installed WP. This image is what I get when I go to surrealwriters.com/wordpress(where I installed WP I think)

  http://imgur.com/QImDAfx

  And this next image is what I get when I go to surrealwriters.com

  http://imgur.com/gcVYaYs

  Sorry for the hassle.

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  sociomenace · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 4:15 pm

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  Update: I’ve reinstalled WP so that http://www.surrealwriters.com leads to a WP.org install but I can’t login for some reason and I’m using the same credentials I used to login to this forum.

  Again sorry for the hassle and thank you for all of your help.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 4:17 pm

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  I can’t login for some reason and I’m using the same credentials I used to login to this forum.

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are completely separate and have different logins http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  If you don’t have a username account at WordPress.ORG click http://wordpress.org/support/ and register one on the top right hand corner of the page that opens, so you can post to the support forums there and receive advice from WordPress.ORG bloggers.

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 5:02 pm

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  Not to change the subject much – but just what Plugin did you think you could not live without?

  There are a lot of blogs here and they do quite well – for most blogs the built in functions (many of the Widgets here are called Plugin’s when you have a WordPress.ORG site)

  Blogging is easier here, especially for beginners is why I am asking – hate to see someone get bogged down if they are not web designers and get discouraged

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  sociomenace · Member · Jul 26, 2014 at 5:14 pm

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  Thanks for the reply :).

  I manged to export it all over and I’m now finally up and running on .org

  I guess I got a bit ahead of myself and wanted to take on the world. I ended up paying for hosting and a stack of other addons so I figured I may as well put them to use. I did enjoy the challenge though!