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[akalafr]

Hello all. In march I renewed my hosting through Bluehost for an e-commerce site I have and since I paid in advance for a full year I was wondering if they would be acceptable to use for the challenge as I can add multiple domains.

I read one post where the hosting needs to have a cpanel which bluehost does.

Thanks in advance.

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[Bill Thomson]

This link to WPD support shows all the hosts that WPD supports and who it doesn't - Bluehost is one of the ones that is OK so you will be fine Akalafr but you need to configure it in a precise way that WPD shows you how to on a video. http://ask.wpdirect.com/question/159...-support-.html

Bill

[akalafr]

This link to WPD support shows all the hosts that WPD supports and who it doesn't - Bluehost is one of the ones that is OK so you will be fine Akalafr but you need to configure it in a precise way that WPD shows you how to on a video. http://ask.wpdirect.com/question/159...-support-.html

Bill

Thanks Bill I am definitely not gonna jump ahead on this one. Just waiting anxiously for the install videos tomorrow. I've bought my domain name and activated it with bluehost. If it seems to be too much of a hassle I'll just switch over to hostgator.

[Bill Thomson]

Akalafr you just need to configure ioncube in Bluehost the way they suggest in this video for WPD to work with Bluehost http://www.viddler.com/explore/twofeetmedia/videos/16/

Bill

[akalafr]

Akalafr you just need to configure ioncube in Bluehost the way they suggest in this video for WPD to work with Bluehost http://www.viddler.com/explore/twofeetmedia/videos/16/

Bill

Thank you for that link, much appreciated.

[TrishaCornelius]

Here's what Bluehost support has to say about setting up Ioncube:
Step 1-*Login into your*cPanel.
Step 2-*Under the Software/Services category, click on the*PHP Config*icon.
Step 3-*In this screen, there is a section called Install Default php.ini. Under that section, please check mark the*"IonCube"*and the*"SourceGuardian"*check boxes (Many commercial php scripts need these turned on - if you think your script may not require the IonCube or SourceGuardian packages, it is okay to not check mark the boxes - but it will not hurt anything to check mark both boxes.).*
Step 4-*Under the same section, click the*"INSTALL PHP.INI MASTER FILE"*button.
Step 5-*You have just successfully installed the "php.ini.default" file . But the next step is to rename it from "php.ini.default" to just "php.ini" to make it active. You can do the Rename in the*File Manager*screens. Under the Files category in your cPanel, please click on the*File Manager*icon.
Step 6-*When you click on the*File Manager*icon, you should get a popup dialog titled "File Manager Directory Selection". (If you do not see the popup dialog, then you need to click on the link at the bottom of your cPanel called "reset all interface settings" - and then Refresh your cPanel and click on the File Manager icon again.) In the popup dialog screen, click the*"Web Root (public_html/www)"*and the*"Show Hidden Files (dotfiles)."*choices. Finally please click the*"Go"*button.
Step 7-*If you already have a "php.ini", I would recommend that you Rename the file to "php.iniOld" in case you need ever need it.
Step 8-*Find the file that you just installed called "php.ini.default", Right-Click the file and choose the Rename option.
Step 9-*A new popup dialog called Rename should appear. Please start pressing yourBackspace*on your keyboard and you will start to see the letters disappear. Keep removing the letters until you see only "php.ini", and then click the*Rename File*button.
Step 10-*Your php.ini file is now active and fully functional !!

Hope this helps - seems to be the same information as shown in the video and I managed to get my WPDirect account set up.

[akalafr]

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I actually found I did this a long time ago for another blog I had set up with WP on my ecommmerce site, so it was already done in my hosting. So far my new niche WPD blog is installed and 1st article posted. So hopefully everything else will work ok as we move along.

[Wyze]

Bluehost is a good host as well, yep there should be no problem since you get access to cpanel.

[Teri]

Akalafr you just need to configure ioncube in Bluehost the way they suggest in this video for WPD to work with Bluehost http://www.viddler.com/explore/twofeetmedia/videos/16/

Bill

Hi Bill:

I have Bluehost and did everything that was required (& also followed Trisha's recommendations of changing existing php.ini to php.iniold). However, when I type in my domain name, all that comes up is my domain name, hosted by bluehost. There is no index of message that appears. What can I be doing wrong and how can I fix this? Thanks very much for your help!