Installing WordPress on my self hosted website.
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I have an established and well ranked website hosted by GoDaddy. How do I install wordpress on my site while keeping my current site intact. I would like one page of my site to be a blog sharing the same url as the rest of the site (e.g.www.SailSafaris.net/wordpressblog.
It cannot be a link to a subdomain (or to WordPress) because I want the blog to help the ranking of the site.
Please help with very specific instructions. I cannot find any information on this although many similar topics are covered. The key difference is that I want wordpress installed on one page of my site and not site wide. My main concern is keeping my existing site unaltered.
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You are mapping as a sub-domain which should do what you want
If you really want to install WordPress.ORG software also on your site – what you want to do is very simple – but you need to get help at WordPress.ORG for the install – you might be able to use the Godaddy one click install for what you want to do also – but would need to be careful – installing WordPress.ORG to work with the address you want is very common
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Thanks auxclass for the reply. I am pretty certain I do not want to map it as a subdomain. It’s my understanding that subdomains will not help the ranking of the main site. That is why I was so specific in my original post about not using a subdomain.
I understand that if this is possible at all, it would be through wordpress.org.
Godaddy one click will reformat the entire site, not one page, I think.
You are not the first person to tell me this is “easy” or “common” but I have spent days researching this, talking to godaddy customer support and searching the forums. No one, it seems, can figure out how to do this. Perhaps there is someone out there who has succeeded in installing a worpress blog on one page of their otherwise non-wordpress, self hosted site?
It seems like it should be a fairly popular thing to do?
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You can install the WordPress.ORG software using FTP – you will need to create the proper database then connect the two – get help at WordPress.ORG – they have a Install / Start-up section of the help forum – you will need to create an account there if you don’t already have one since the user names here are not related to .ORG
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To install wordpress if you are hosted at godaddy:
log in and go to your account.
go to hosting
choose the website you want to intall wordpress on and click launch
then click on “install wordpress”
It will ask you for wordpress log in info and where on your site to install.
i.e. http://www.yourwebsite.com/wordpressblog (you can just type it in and the subdirectory will automatically be made with a folder with all the wordpress database installed.This will then be the url for the blog. Make sure to add a link on your website to this page.
Then just login to your new wordpress site, pick a theme and start posting.
You can see my efforts here.- http://www.SailSafaris.net/wpblog
So easy but no one at Godaddy or wordpress knew how to do this.
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Do not insult me – I have installed several .ORG software installs – but what you don’t understand is that this is for support of WordPress.COM sites – not WordPress.ORG sites – it is you that did not know what you were doing nor how to follow directions – and it was the one click install that you said would not work and I told you would work
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I am so sorry auxclass! I did not mean to refer to you, I meant the paid employees on the phone. I do see in your very first response you mentioned godaddy one click. Thanks so much for your help and again I am very sorry. I guess the reason I didn’t immediately go to one click is that you recommended I be very careful. That scared me a bit and so I had to keep investigating until I got the details and the procedure. Thanks again for your help.
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