Alright fellas, I bought a domain name a few years ago that I've just let lapse completely.
I bought the backorder option again today as I wanna use it just to stick my CV on. A few people I work with have done this with theirs and it looks pretty good, just one page with a bit of detail on them etc.
So I bought my domain name back for 3 years from 123-reg and paid like 12 quid or something.
Then I looked for a bit of free hosting as I don't want anything but a single page and I'm not expecting anything more than a handful of visits a month, if that.
Started using this cPanel through freehosting.com and installed WordPress through their Softaculous installer thing they have.
Using the File Manager they have in there, I can see the wordpress files are all there etc. but when you go to the domain name all you get is a 404, regardless of what you change the URL to.
Is this just a case of needing to wait for it to 'propagate' or whatever? Surely I should be able to at least set up the basic wordpress stuff?
If the domain name isn't working, that's just a redirect basically isn't it? Can I not just go somewhere directly and begin there?
In addition to that, you get an email address too which I put in to forward to my personal account, if I send through from the webmail thing it works, but not if you reply. If you then remove the forwarding option, the whole thing stops working too.
I downloaded FileZilla to see what I could do with that too and that won't connect either, just says the login failed.
Can anyone help me with any of this? I've set up a couple of these little sites before and always needed help but that was years ago and I was hoping to be able to do it on my own but that's clearly not worked.
Thanks
I bought the backorder option again today as I wanna use it just to stick my CV on. A few people I work with have done this with theirs and it looks pretty good, just one page with a bit of detail on them etc.
So I bought my domain name back for 3 years from 123-reg and paid like 12 quid or something.
Then I looked for a bit of free hosting as I don't want anything but a single page and I'm not expecting anything more than a handful of visits a month, if that.
Started using this cPanel through freehosting.com and installed WordPress through their Softaculous installer thing they have.
Using the File Manager they have in there, I can see the wordpress files are all there etc. but when you go to the domain name all you get is a 404, regardless of what you change the URL to.
Is this just a case of needing to wait for it to 'propagate' or whatever? Surely I should be able to at least set up the basic wordpress stuff?
If the domain name isn't working, that's just a redirect basically isn't it? Can I not just go somewhere directly and begin there?
In addition to that, you get an email address too which I put in to forward to my personal account, if I send through from the webmail thing it works, but not if you reply. If you then remove the forwarding option, the whole thing stops working too.
I downloaded FileZilla to see what I could do with that too and that won't connect either, just says the login failed.
Can anyone help me with any of this? I've set up a couple of these little sites before and always needed help but that was years ago and I was hoping to be able to do it on my own but that's clearly not worked.
Thanks
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