I’ve just activated my account to transfer my wordpress.com to wordpress.org. I want to setup my wordpress account before pointing my domain to dreamhost (currently is redirecting to my wordpress.com blog). How can I find which URL I can use?
In “Manage Domains” > “DNS” > “www” I can find an IP and I thought I could use it to install the wordpress by typing http://[myIP]/wp//wp-admin/install.php
Any advice?
Thanks
–andre
You should be able to use dreamhosters.com for this. Check out http://wiki.dreamhost.com/DNS_-_Viewing_site_before_DNS_change
A caveat - You may need to ‘move’ WordPress afterwords, and search/replace your database if you do this, as your site will have the temp domain instead of the real one.
I recently did a similar thing with my WP page. I just mirrored the site (wiki link here: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/DNS_-_Viewing_site_before_DNS_change ) and then I just followed the steps for moving my .com to a .org here http://bit.ly/S7YIzE
Basically you have to set up the domain to be fully hosted and everything on our end (DreamHost) like you would normally, but do not point the nameservers to DreamHost yet, so the site you’re building isn’t live
Hope that Helps,
Matt C
Thank you a lot, for you both, for the quick answers. I’ll still have to wait a few hours until the mirroring takes effect, but I feel confident 
Just to confirm that this worked! Thanks a lot!!!
Maybe I’ll need some help when I will have to “move” the wordpress afterwords.
Hi, could you give me a quick tip on how to ‘move’ WordPress afterwords, and search/replace your database?
I think I got how to “move” the wordpress. Actually, I wanted to keep Wordpress in another folder so I followed the instructions described here: https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-131591.html
Just as an FYI for the next guy, there are directions on the WP codex for Giving WP it’s own directory using a preexisting directory
We’ll be happy to help you.