Hosting/transferring problems with a new site.

[Shadz91]

Hey guys,

I am having a few problems with my site. I have purchased a domain from namecheap.com and bought hosting from just host. I am fairly sure I have transferred my site and installed wordpress with a simple script but every time I try to do the wp-admin log in it comes up with a “problem loading page” I have tried to change the name server from my namecheap account but it doesn’t appear to have any effect. The only possible thing I can see is that my local host is not the same address as the rest in my DNS zone editor.

Does anyone know what to do?

Shadz

 

[AllBizNiz]

So just to clarify, you developed your site on your local machine then purchased hosting to move it there? IF that's the case you need to change a couple things. Make sure you visit the following article for more information. You'll have to change a URL in the DB and change your Wp-config file. Also, when you ping your domain are you getting a reply back from your server ip?

Changing The Site URL « WordPress Codex

 

[HeavyD]

It can sometimes take a day or two for nameservers to get recognized as changed especially if you keep updating them. I have had this happen with namecheap. How long has it been since you switched nameservers?

Also - as per above post you need to look at DB urls.

 

[Shadz91]

Thank you for both of your responses. Yes it turns out that it had to take a couple of days before the name servers switched though with me trying to change the name server every 15 minutes it sure as hell didn't help lol

 

[wooja]

I always use HostTracker [Website Uptime Monitoring Service] to verify propagation of nameservers after I change them. You can usually see at least one or two propagations after a few minutes.
The rest will usually take up to a day or so.