Hey you guys my name is Hogan and in this video
I'm gonna be showing you how to connect your GoDaddy domain name with your Hostgator account
So basically if you've recently got your domain from GoDaddy
But you didn't get hosting there and you've got hosting somewhere else
For example, you got it at Hostgator
Then I'm going to show you how to connect the two together so you can start creating your WordPress website as quick as possible
right, so we're gonna jump right into the tutorial and
Essentially, what we want to do is we want to log into our GoDaddy account and you also want to log into our Hostgator account
So you can click on customer login and then click on portal login
so you can also log in from the cPanel directly with the
Details, they actually sent you through your email, but I'm gonna be showing you this way as well. So we're gonna log in here and
What we're going to do here with GoDaddy is we want to scroll down, right?
To see all our domain names. So I've got quite a few domain names
So you guys probably don't have as many so we're gonna select this one here. Okay
So this one is the webdemo123.site and then here we need to hover over
DNS and then we need to click it
ok, so now what we need to do is
we need to go over to Hostgator and we want to go to our
cPanel so we can click on hosting here and
Then what we can do is click on cPanel
Alright, so this is gonna take out take us to the cPanel where we're going to copy the name server
So copy the primary name server on the right copy that T clipboard come to your domain manager here
So DNS management, sometimes the UI might change the user interface
So what you need to do is to navigate to the name service section. Alright, so you can click on change here and
Then what we need to do is just to click on
I'll enter my own paste it over here and
Then come back over here and paste in the secondary one, right and then paste it again and then click on save
Right. So once that is saved then what we need to do is we need to go back to our cPanel to install WordPress
So what we need to do first is we need to add on the domain. Alright, so scroll down to domains and you
can click on add on means and
Then what we need to do is add in the domain name. So in this case it is the
Webdemo123, I'm just gonna copy it from here. Okay
Or you can just type it in just like that. Okay without the
HTTP and
Then just click on the outside here, right? And then you can click on add-on domain
Alright, so that has been added now we can install WordPress so can click back here to the cPanel area
Alright, and then we can click on WordPress installer
So if you don't see that because sometimes they do change it. Try to look for the WordPress installer for in this case
It's up here. So just click into it and
Then what we need to do is we need to select the domain for installation
So here we're gonna select the domain which is this one over here for the directory. Leave it empty. Click on next
So here I'm just gonna type in blog title as test. You can change it later
So for the username, I'm just gonna put in my username first name
last name and
Then also make sure you put in your correct email address
Okay, because they'll also send you the details there and if you forgot your details, for example your password, they'll send it here
so click over here and then click on install and
That's gonna install onto the new domain right and then I'll show you how to log in
alright, so sometimes that does take maybe
15-20 minutes for that to actually set up on the back end right so sometimes you need to wait
so what I'm gonna do is just copy over the password to my clipboard first and
Then I'm gonna click on login
Ok, so as you can see it's not up yet
So I'm gonna take a break and then come back and show you how to login. Ok
So after 20 minutes now, it's finally ready. So I'm going to put in my username and
Also the password that you copied before
So they should also send you a mail right to your email that you set in before with the password in case you forget
So I'm going to click on this one
ok, so this is your dashboard your WordPress dashboard and this is only
What you can right so what your customers see or your visitors see then this is the homepage, right?
So I'm going to show you just to configure some basic settings
To get you sort of up and running first before you follow any sort of tutorial because I think it's really really important. So
The most important thing is to ensure that your website is secure
So as you can see on the top left here
It says not secure and this is not good because when someone comes to your website and says that then they don't trust it
Right. So to fix that what we need to do is
We need to go to your Hostgator control panel area
Okay, so you can type in SSL here and you can click on SSL Certificates
Right. So this is basically just going to navigate you to
the
Sort of the dashboard area for Hostgator so that you can check if the SSL has been installed on your domain
So this is the new domain that I just added in
Okay, so if it says pending then it should be good to go
Right, if it's not it says like attention or something error or anything like that
then what you need to do is contact the support here the live chat and tell them that you recently added a new domain and
You would like them to activate the let's encrypt SSL on to that specific domain
Okay
that's gonna take about 5-10 minutes to get that done now once when that is done and that is active then
What you need to do is go back to your website over here. Alright, and
then we can go to plugins over here and
Here they actually have a lot of pre-installed
Things with Hostgator. I don't personally don't really like it
So I just want to sort of deactivate all of them for now, right because there's just so much clutter everywhere
You can reactivate it later when you need it. All right. So what we're gonna do is click on add new and
We're going to search for a plug-in. So this one's gonna be called
Really simple, but SSL. Yep, and
Then what we're gonna do is we're going to install it so this one with four million active installs
click on install and then we're going to activate ok, so
Make sure that it does say that is pending over here. Alright, and then it should have this message over here, right?
so make sure you know your password you can actually let's go over the users and
You can change your password
so over here, alright, we can click on edit for your profile name and
Here we can scroll down to the bottom and here generate password and then you can generate just a new password
Ok, and then you can update your profile first, right? Because like the Hostgator they gave you one which was like super duper long
So that's not good
here you can go ahead and activate SSL and
Then that might probably log you out
Ok, so let's say if you want to log back into your WordPress dashboard, then it's really important that you know this so
I'm just gonna delete the URL. Ok, so let's go to our home page, right? So this is the home page and to login
right type in
/wp -
admin and click on enter
Ok, so here we're going to login
So as you can see you should see the lock icon or the padlock here and that means your website is ready to go
so the other thing that you want to do is you want to make sure you go to your settings and permalinks and
Then you want to change your post name to
This one over here, right? So it basically includes the page title within the URL
Ok, so normally it doesn't include that and it's not good. Right? So it's not good for search engines, right?
So I think that is pretty much it
For this video now, you can essentially start, you know, following my tutorial or maybe you can for other people's tutorial
It doesn't really matter
I'll leave the links to my tutorials in the description below and
I'll I'm gonna be creating the blog tutorial soon and also a new website tutorial as well as
e-commerce tutorials and things like that, so
That is pretty much it for this video and see you guys in the next video