Frequently Asked Questions:

I have a Bludomain site hosted by Bludomain. Can I get a WordPress blog and ProPhoto to work on my Bludomain account?

Yes. Bludomain does allow to FTP files to your hosting account, and will also give you access to your webhost cPanel to create a mySQL database. Email them and ask for your FTP information, and how to log into your cPanel. It should be something like: http://mybluwebsite.com/cpanel or http://mybluwebsite.com:2082/ with probably the same login info as your FTP.

Questions? Instead of emailing for support, leave a comment below so everyone can benefit from any clarification.

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4 Responses to “I have a Bludomain site hosted by Bludomain. Can I get a WordPress blog and ProPhoto to work on my Bludomain account?”

  1. On April 25th, 2008 at 10:16 pm Samantha Cover said:

    I love your blog templates and am excited to switch over. I am hosted by bludomain, so I can’t figure out what to do since they don’t have fantastico….please help.

  2. On April 26th, 2008 at 9:46 am Jared said:

    Samantha Cover » You can just do a regular, manual installation of WordPress by using FTP and BluDomain’s mySQL Database wizard. I’ve done probably 20+ installs on bludomain hosted sites.

    The only tricky thing is that when you’re setting up your mySQL database, both your database name and your database user name start with your master account username and then an underscore “_”.

    So if your bludomain master username is “samanth1″ and you name your database “wordpress” and your user “wpuser” then in your wp-config.php file you would enter the database name as “samanth1_wordpress” and the username as “samanth1_wpuser” and then your password as normal.

    Or, you could buy the handheld version and we can do the install for you! ;)

  3. On May 7th, 2008 at 6:11 pm shelia said:

    I have a blu domain site but host with Westhost..I can I still ulitize your services without any hic-ups??

  4. On May 8th, 2008 at 7:24 am Jared said:

    Yeah, we’ve done probably 5-6 installs on Westhost. It will work fine. I must warn you though, that excepting Yahoo! webhosting, Westhost is probably the most difficult host to work with as far as setting up WordPress.

    They don’t have a simple mySQL wizard. You have to use a tool called phpMyAdmin to manually create a database. Then the username and password for the database is (if i remember correctly) the same username and password to get into phpMyAdmin. Or maybe its your account username and password.

    If you get totally stuck, you can always upgrade to the handheld installation and we can take care of it for you, we’ve gotten pretty used to using Westhost.

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