upload the contents of the wordpress directory from within the zip to the htdocs directory of your site.
Upload the unpacked wordpress folder to your htdocs folder using FTP (or whatever file management application your host provides). If you cannot locate your htdocs folder, contact your hosts for assistance.
If your web host has a c panel (control panel) of some sort that lets you install web apps such as wordpress through a software add app (this is sometimes referred to as a script library), such as Fantastico, just use that and update WordPress after it has been installed. If you do not do this, you need to create a data base for wordpress to store it’s info into, and have the data base info available when you install wordpress as your site.
The cgi-bin is where files with special permissions are kept. As a newbie you will probably not be doing anything with that folder. The htdocs folder is the folder where all of your site files and folders go. Inside this is the folder where your wordpress files will need to end up.
If you know how to get to the app that lets you manage files in your site management area, at your web host page, then upload the zip file into the htdocs folder, and use the manage files app to unzip it right in the htdocs folder (this is faster and less likely to end up with corrupted files). Otherwise, unzip the zip folder on your computer, and upload the contents of the unzipped folder into the htdocs folder.
Note that if you unzip the zipped file in the htdocs folder it will be unzipped into another folder called wordpress. If you leave everything in that folder, then you will need to add /wordpress to the url to get to it. Ohterwise you need to cut all of the files and folders that are inside the wordpress folder and paste them directly into the htdocs folder.
The theme folder needs to end up in the themes folder (htdocs > wp-content > themes)
Once the files and folders are in the htdocs folder, go to your url and the worpress setup wizard should start automatically.
As mentioned earlier, you will need to install a database for wordpress to use, and you will need the data base name and password when you install wordpress. The setup wizard will recognize that a data base is not set in it’s files and will ask you for that info.
Hope that helps.
Thanks so much folks. I think I have got the wordpress folder uploaded, but I don’t know where to put the theme now.
Same place?
oops, cscottb, I see that you have already answered that question.
Many thanks to you all.
