godaddy setup, redirect, and themes

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    dwolthuis · Member ·

    I set up hosting for an existing domain with godaddy. I plan to have the dns changed after the new site is all set up. So, I need the domain to continue has it is with another ISP while I set up the godaddy site, using Word Press, software I have not worked with before.

    I asked the godaddy folks who said that if I purchased their dedicated IP address feature, then I could access the site on godaddy using the IP address while the domain still points to the site that is currently the live site.

    Well, that isn’t how it worked. Apparently while I had to give the godaddy setup process the information that the domain would be mydomain.com, I should have given the dedicated IP address to the Word Press setup, but I didnd’t. So, when going to the dedicated IP address in a browser, Word Press apparently redirects me to the live site. Not helpful, I must say.

    I got to the point with godaddy today where I could bring up the administrator panel by adding
    remove_action(‘template_redirect’,’redirect_canonical’);

    to the functions.php file under the default theme.

    However, both the site and the admin site had no styling (no css applied), no theme applied. So, I searched a bunch of groups and changed permissions on theme files just in case that helped, to no avail. I never got anything but plain text versions of the pages.

    So, I decided to try a different theme, knowing I had to add that same line to the next theme. I selected the new them from the admin panel and added the line of code to the new theme.

    And, rats, now I’m back to where I started, where I cannot even get to the admin panel because when I try to go to my godaddy dedicated IP address, word press causes it to redirect to the existing site.

    I’ve tried a few other things, like changing the options.php file and removing the line that does a redirect. It seemed like a brute force approach, but it didn’t work. I also changed some database config info to switch Home and siteurl (or something like that) from the domain URL to the dedicated IP URL. That didn’t do it either.

    I also thought I would try to upgrade Word Press 2.5 to 2.5.1 or whatever it told me to upgrade to, but since I just clicked a button on the godaddy site to do the original install and I don’t have root access to the shared server, I really don’t know how to do such an upgrade, so I set that aside too.

    All in all a tough day with nothing to show for it. I cannot run the admin panel at all. I’m stuck no knowing how to get it running for me again and no knowing where to go to find out. Any clues would be much appreciated.

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    ellaella · Member ·

    Ouch. You call it a tough day? That sounds like an understatement to me.

    Unfortunately, you’re in the wrong place for self-hosted blogs. Please copy your message and post it at http://wordpress.org/support

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