All files in the 2.3.1 zip, should be uploaded to your host.
Here’s a list of Text editors. Also review Editing Files and Uploading WordPress to a remote host.
Hey,
Thanks for answering.
I downloaded HTML-Kit from chami.com and it seemed to work.
I do have one more question. I want Wp to be main page. So, I upload it to root directory, right? But, here comes the dumb question, using filezilla I see a folder icon followed by … and then a couple of html pages of mine on my server. How do I get it to be main page? Should I make a sub-directory called wordpress and them somehow move index.php?
I keep looking at the codex, but not getting it yet.
Only want to do this once.
Thanks
If you put the WordPress files in folder in your web-root folder called wordpress, then after the installation (www.sample.com/wordpress should kick-off the install), login and in Options->General change the Blog address (URL) to http://www.sample.com.
Put this index.php in your web-root folder:
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
?>
This particular setup is described at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
Ok,
I have WordPress installed!!!
Now, if you don’t mind, and I know this might sound silly, but how do I copy index.php from wordpress sub-domain into the root?
Also, the codex says something about .htaccess
Thank you
If you didn’t have both index files in the right places, then I don’t think you’d be installed and live.
The one with wordpress/blog-header stays in the root, and the one with just blog-header stays in the main folder.
You should be able to view your files either with FileZilla or through a CPanel in the hosting account. Look in the main WordPress folder files and see if the htaccess was already created (it normally is).
Well,
I have everything in a sub-domain called wordpress.
I think I have to somehow move the index.php to the root, use a text editor to cut everything out of that file and replace it with the code in the post above right?
Then I’ll have a folder(Subdomain) called wordpress where all wordpress-related files live and in the root I’ll have index.php?
So, it’ll look like this:
myphp
wordpress
index.php
I apologize if this sounds simple-minded, it’s just that I’m one step away from success. I don’t want to screw this up. Five minute install? Not for me. But, I’m pretty proud of myself so far
PHPMyAdmin isn’t a file or folder. It is an interface that you open in order to see and administer your MySQL database. The data (posts, links, comments, etc.) live in the database.
PHP is the language (code) that most of the WordPress files are written in, and this is what makes your data go to its proper home in the database and appear on your website when called. (Additional language files are css, javascript/js, etc.)
Your hosting root is probably called html or public_html or something like that. That’s the top of the tree when you view your root files and subfolders.
In the root you have a WordPress index.php file that has the code that Michael wrote for you above.
When you open the WordPress sub-folder, seeing the next level on that branch of the tree, the files there include one called index.php that came with the package.
So you already have all the index files you need for WP and don’t have to move anything.
The htaccess file will be either at the (html) root or in the (next level) main WP folder, depending on how your host sets things up.
OK, and I thank you for taking the time to respond,
but, I’m not quite getting this.
On my server, under file manager my files are listed like this:
clipart
myphp
wordpress
index.html (the main page of my site I’m trying to replace. It still shows as main page when you go to http://www.mywebpage.com)
I can click on the folder in the wordpress sub-domain and then click “move” and then click “up one level.”
Should I do this? And, if yes, then I use a text editor to go in and replace that code with the new, right?
Or, am I really off base?
create a new file called index.php and place it where the current index.html file is. Delete the .html file and place the code given to you previously into the index.php file. You will end up with:
clipart
myphp
wordpress
index.php
Success!
Well, thank you everybody. You just helped me get through my first installation of WP. I’m glad I learned how to do it, though it took a while. I’m sure this new knowledge will come in handy in the future.
Is there anything else I should do? Go back and make any changes or anything?
If not, thanks again, and I guess this topic is resolved.
nope, you’re all sorted! Well done! I remember my first wp install, before the 5minute installer!
Thanks again. I’m so happy to have done it.
I’m sure I’ll be in these forums often in the coming weeks as I get this blog rolling.
Thanks again and take care
