Tip on installing WordPress on a Network Solutions hosted site

I just set up WordPress on a Network Solutions hosted site for my step-mom’s new interior design business. As always, the installation was a cinch except for, as always, one thing that takes an hour to figure out. Namely, Network Solutions is part of that 1% the “handy installation guide” refers to that doesn’t use “localhost” as the value for DB_name.

For anyone else who has this problem, the solution is:

DB_name equals the IP address of your Network Solutions site.

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  • http://jaylane.com/ Jay Lane

    I was just helping a friend set up a WordPress site hosted at Network Solutions and ran across this same exact problem. Thanks for the information. I knew Google would direct me to something good.

    I entered the IP address in the local host field (not DB name) and the site worked perfectly.

    Thanks for the info!

  • http://jaylane.com Jay Lane

    I was just helping a friend set up a WordPress site hosted at Network Solutions and ran across this same exact problem. Thanks for the information. I knew Google would direct me to something good.

    I entered the IP address in the local host field (not DB name) and the site worked perfectly.

    Thanks for the info!

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  • FullDeckDesign

    Help! Having the same difficulty. I'm installing WordPress in a subdirectory file called “news”. When I enter the IP address that doesn't fix the problem, nor if I add '/news' nor if I add '/news/localhost' . Any ideas ? THANKS!

  • Josh

    Where do I find the IP address???

  • http://fungibleconvictions.com/ Andrew Whitacre

    I'm no longer in charge of this particular Network Solutions-hosted site, so I can't say for sure where you'd find the IP address, but it's usually pretty prominently placed on whatever page you'd use to manage your domain name.

    On a Go Daddy-hosted site, for example, it's under the DNS section of the Domain Manager screen and usually is a number that looks like 207.802.78.114

  • Dale

    For the less-knowledgeable, you would actually use it for DB_HOST, not DB_NAME. You can either put your IP address (currently found in Database Manager), or the Server Alias (like mysqlv##). This is something I’ve just learned. ;)

  • Dan

    THANK YOU!