A quick way to upload WordPress Directory to CPanel?

You’ve got me confused at the end: “the files automatically unzipped when they were uploaded.”

Nonetheless, the File Manager in cPanel has lots of great features. You can upload, move a folder, select a whole bunch of files and even unzip a .zip or .tar.gz file. Check out the cPanel documentation on HostGator.

There might be some WordPress-specific cPanel instructions around, too. The only ones I found in my brief look were here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/User:MichaelH/Installation_Notes/Simple_Installation_for_cPanel
(not sure how up to date they are)

I should also mention that it can take up to 48 hours for a domain name to be available everywhere around the world. To make sure you can get to your domain name, create a test.txt file on your computer with “Hi, amyelandry” in it.

Use FileZilla to upload text.txt to public_html.

Then type http://www.example.com/text.txt

If you don’t see “Hi, amyelandry” in your web browser, then the domain name is “not working yet”. Either the name servers are not set properly, or you changed them in the last 48 hours.

FileZilla has two areas displayed. The left one is your computer’s hard drives and other devices. The right one is the web site you connected it to. As long as you know where the test.txt file is stored, it should just be a drag and drop from left to right side.

Alternatively, cPanel’s File Manager has an upload capability that prompts you to browse your computer for the file you want to upload.

If there’s an index.html or index.htm page in your public_html folder, rename it to something like indexold

@amyelandry: You must get http://www.example.com/test.txt working before doing anything else. Don’t worry about index.html and index.htm files at this point. http://www.example.com/test.txt will always work if you can see the file in cPanel’s File Manager in the public_html folder (on GoDaddy and other hosts that use public_html folders).

So, we know that the domain name is not set up properly. Frankly, it is rare to take more than 12 hours to see the changes propagated to all but the farthest reaches of the Internet.

If you choose not to share your domain name here, then I am going to suggest that you look it up yourself here:
http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?ci=8926
and make sure that the name servers are right for HostGator. Feel free to post the name servers here if you want someone to verify that they are correct.

As I say, this is definitely NOT a WordPress problem, though @chgowriter is probably right in assuming that any hosting company that loads software for you, probably installs it, too. HostGator has some sort of One Click Installer according to their web site.