Wordpress setup

Hi. I'm in the process of trying to transition Wordpress from shared hosting to a linode. I managed to completely wreck a manual install following the tutorial and so this time around decided to try a script - specifically, this one - http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view … iptID=3722">http://www.linode.com/stackscripts/view/?StackScriptID=3722.

I tried to arm myself with some knowledge when setting it up. What I wanted to do was to set up and test the site on linode, make sure it worked while my old site remained up and running. I had generally gathered from other forum topics (http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f … omain+name">http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4954&hilit=transition+domain+name and http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f … omain+name">http://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3956&hilit=transition+domain+name) that that the best way to set up is to input everything into the new host (particularly domain names) as if the nameserver was pointing to the new site, and then edit the hosts file on my local windows machine so that it points to the IP of the new site, using the existing IP.

In other words, even though my other site was still up and running, set up the linode by inputting mydomain.com everywhere. Because hosts on my machine points to the new IP address, I could access the new site with mydomain.com as if the nameservers pointed there, while the rest of the world would still go to my old site.

The setup seemed to go well - I can login by SSH, see stuff by FTP, etc. I've also confirmed by running tracert on my machine that it does correctly resolve to the IP address for the new site.

Where things seem to break down is when I actually try to go to the site. When I type in mydomain.com (I don't use "www" for the existing site - not sure if it makes a difference), I get the following error message: "Error 101 (net::ERRCONNECTIONRESET): The connection was reset."

When I type in the IP address, I see the default nginx welcome page which says "This is the default index.html page that is distributed with nginx on EPEL. It is located in /usr/share/nginx/html."

In short, I can't seem to access WordPress at all.

Not sure if this has anything to do with it, but when I tried to FTP in with the user that was supposed to be created by the script, I can login, but I can't retrieve or overwrite wp-config, which has permissions set to 640 and ownership to www-group:www-group. This leads me to suspect that the user created by the script is not in the www-group group. Could that be what's causing a problem?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be most appreciated.