All right, so for this instance, I purchased my domain name through GoDaddy dot com and I have my
hosting done through InMotion hosting.
So what I need to do is I need to connect that domain name to the hosting account.
It's like an address or point of that address to the actual house itself.
Show me where those two are connected.
Now, I could take a domain name and I could point to a whole new host every couple of weeks or whatever
I wanted to do.
You could always move that around.
It just depends on where you're pointed to and what where you what you use.
Try that again.
What you use to connect.
That is something called a name server.
That's the name of the server, basically we're pointing it over to.
So when I registered for In Motion, it told me what the name servers were.
So it just two different names need to put in.
And I have my domain name through GoDaddy, so I'm going to go into the domain names area and I find
the domain I'm looking for just online marketing concepts.
I'm going to click on that.
And it's going to be some very basic information, so here's like my contact information that's going
to be thrown out to the public if I don't keep that private.
Again, I didn't pay to keep that private, so I'm not too worried about that right now.
And I'll come over to manage DNS.
That's where I want to manage the information about my server.
So I click on that and you'll see right here at the top name servers that's going to give you know,
if you purchase it through GoDaddy, it's going to give you two name servers by default.
I think they're like whatever their random name servers that are specific to GoDaddy hosting, what
you want to do is click on change and probably have to change it over from default, which GoDaddy does,
to custom.
And then for InMotion, these are the two name servers.
Usually they'll start out with an ASR and S1 or something like that, and then the name of the company
and they'll give you two of them.
So I'll add those two in there and I'll hit save.
I've already got those two in there right now, so I'm not too worried about that.
I can just go in and cancel.
You'll save every domain name host is going to be a little bit different.
But for the most part, this is exactly what you're looking for is just fine where they have the name
server information, change it out and put that in there.
Now, this does take a little while to propagate to let all the servers know that this has changed.
It's not going to be instantaneous.
It can take anywhere from five minutes to I think they say like up to 72 hours.
I've never really seen it take quite that long, at most probably an hour or so.
It just depends on everything going on with servers at the time.
But for the most part, you change that out within a few minutes, you'll probably see your domain name
up and working.
That's all you need to do for that.
Those are your name servers.
So I'm going to come on, get out of GoDaddy and I'm going to go to my actual domain name itself.
So for this one week, I had a registered online marketing concepts, a complete blank domain name.
And if I type it in right now and return as long as my name servers are working, you're going to see
something like this where it asks you to finalize the install of WordPress.
Now, if you watched the last video, you'll know that the server did all this information for me and
have to do any of this.
I do it manually.
This is what you have to go through.
So by default, first you have to pick your language.
It's going to be speaking.
I'm going to stick with English because I don't know any of these other languages.
And just saying, OK, be prepared here.
You're going to need that database information that I just told you.
You had to make sure you wrote down and kept safe.
Some say, OK, I've got it all.
Let's go.
All right.
So we're just going to copy hand over the database.
Name I told you was the same as my username here.
And in this case, I have the password just asking for here.
Now, the database host, for the most part, it's always going to be localhost.
That's why they came in there by default.
Your hosting provider, if you have a real cheap old GoDaddy hosting, I know they have some crazy long,
databased name.
Not something you'll have to really worry about for the most part of your registering hosting accounts
nowadays.
But for the most part, I know that just knowing that you can change it if you need to, and then the
prefix for your database.
OK, so that's like all the tables are all named something.
If you want to try to prevent being hacked, you may want to just go ahead and just change it up to
something a little bit different.
I'll usually I'll usually just go ahead and put in like a letter and a number or something like that
just to kind of change it up, because hackers may look for WP dash whatever in a database I'm going
to change is that nothing affects anything that you do by doing this.
Just going to keep that underscore in there.
And it really doesn't affect anything.
Just keep it to yourself, will say.
So we're going to run the installation and within a couple of seconds here, it's going to ask me what
I want to call my website.
I want to call this online marketing concepts.
What can I show you how to change this later on.
And you come up with a username.
I was called Keith.
You maybe be a little bit more creative than that, come up with something a little bit more secure.
It doesn't matter.
I can keep that one simple, but then it gives you a password that you can use.
I would definitely suggest keeping something pretty complex like that and then using a program maybe
like last past to save it so that we are not having to try to retype all that stuff every time.
We'll get into that a little bit later on as well, like go and put in my email address and I'll say
install.
Don't click on that.
Yeah, for the most part, I wouldn't click on that right now.
We can talk about that later.
I will say install WordPress.
So now it's doing the very final stages of installing WordPress, putting that information that I just
typed in.
And if you had any database errors, I would have told you by now, but for the most part that she could
pretty smoothly.
I'm not gonna worry about that.
And I'll set a log in just to make sure that this works.
One thing to write down is the login page.
I'm going to go and copy that and pasted in here.
There are basically two locations where you can log in at.
So it's going to take a look at these here right now, we can go to your domain name forward, slash
WP dash log in P or P, hyphen admen.
I prefer that because it's shorter and actually redirects to this top domain name appear or actually
I should say you URL, but either one of those will work.
So maybe go ahead and write those down.
If you're new to WordPress.
And I'm going to put in my new username, which was Keith and my password
and log in and voila, I am inside of WordPress.
Next video, we're going to talk about all the different things in WordPress and start to get familiar
with it.