Finally, my HostGator hosting is working. I’m not 100% sure but I think this it what fixed it…

No surprise here - it was by my own error that my WordPress site wasn’t working correctly with my new HostGator hosting service. It hit me last night when I was removing the current installation of WordPress and getting ready to reinstall it. I had downloaded WordPress and when I went to change the config file it became clear to me what I had done. When I installed WordPress the first time - I just copied another wp-config.php file I had and changed the database information.

Seems like a logical thing to do, right? So, what was the problem? Well, for a while now WordPress has added 3 different unique KEYs that need to be filled in the wp-config file. I forgot to change them - I left them the exact same as another WordPress blog that is already live. So, this time I made sure and generated new keys - viola it now works. A silly mistake that cost me quite a bit of time - the KEYs thing just slipped my mind. Anyway, I’m pretty sure this was the problem because when I uploaded the new WordPress files everything worked correctly. Yes!

Michael Hargis

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