Newbie trying to install using FileZilla

  • Resolved allysonmichele-1

    (@allysonmichele-1)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    My host is laughing squid
    FTP-FileZilla (duh, ha)

    I looked at all the screenshots of poeple using other various FTP clients but I cannot for the life of me get this one to properly upload. I’m new to this so please be gentle.

    Local File: the folder with all the wordpress files in it
    Remote file: ?
    File:?
    Host:mydomain
    username:myusername
    password:mypassword

    The only things I don’t know what to do with are the remote file and file fields.

    Here is the error I get

    Status: Resolving address of collegechic.us
    Status: Connecting to 98.129.212.3:21…
    Status: Connection attempt failed with “ECONNREFUSED – Connection refused by server”.
    Error: Could not connect to server
    Status: Waiting to retry…
    Status: Resolving address of collegechic.us
    Status: Connecting to 98.129.212.3:21…
    Status: Connection attempt failed with “ECONNREFUSED – Connection refused by server”.
    Error: Could not connect to server
    Status: Connecting to collegechic.us…
    Response: fzSftp started
    Command: open “collegechic@collegechic.us” 22
    Error: Connection refused
    Error: Could not connect to server
    Status: Waiting to retry…
    Status: Connecting to collegechic.us…
    Response: fzSftp started
    Command: open “collegechic@collegechic.us” 22
    Error: Connection refused
    Error: Could not connect to server

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  • Brian Harris

    (@zgani)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    In the Host section you need to either enter your site’d IP add or the an actual ftp add in the form of http://ftp.yoursitename.com

    For most hosting companies the user name is either yoursitename.com or you@yoursitename.com

    The password is what your hosting company has allocated for ftp access or the one you setup if you created the ftp username.

    Once you have established a connection on the remote site pane you will see your site directories one of them being either www or public_html if you are on a linux server.

    Your wordpress files should be uploaded inside the www or public_html folder or in a subfolder inside within.

    You would then go to http://www.yoursite.com/ or http://www.yoursite.com/yourfoldername and the install script will take over and guide you. In some cases you may have to type the full path i.e http://www.yoursitename.com/wp-admin/install.php

    For everything to work smothily in addition to the above, make sure the details in your wp-config.php file are correct.

    Hope that helps
    good luck
    Zulf

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    why are you connecting to port 22? thats the connection problem youre seeing.

    you need to be on port 21, which is the default port, btw.

    for laughing squid:

    server/hostname: your-domain.com
username: your-username
password: your-password
remote directory: httpdocs
port: 21

    gridserver ^
    laughing squid also doesnt have dirs named public_html

    Luggruff

    (@luggruff)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    ..or just leave the port BLANK

    1) File -> Site manager (CTRL+S)
    2) Fill out these fields:
    -Host = http://ftp.yourhost.com (or your host IP)
    -Port = BLANK (nothing)
    -Servertype = FTP
    -Logontype = Normal
    -User: Your username with the host or your FTP useraccount (given by your host)
    -Password = Your username password (if it’s the same as your host account, as the previous, or a specific password for a specified FTP-account)
    —> Connect.

    Should be no more info touched.

    Thread Starter allysonmichele-1

    (@allysonmichele-1)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks I’ll try this stuff–

    whooami-for some reason LS tells you to try port 22 for a “secure” connection, I had tried both 21 and 22 and still got errors.

    But I’ll run all these things through and if it gives me more trouble I’ll reply here again.

    Thanks again

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    If youre getting errors on port 21 than you probably need to go back to them and get the connection info again.

    Thread Starter allysonmichele-1

    (@allysonmichele-1)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks everyone! Got it workin’. FileZilla wasn’t adding the ftp. prefix to my host name as ls said it would.

    dsignr

    (@dsignr)

    14 years, 1 month ago

    I was having sorta the same problem as you. Filezilla kept on telling I had an “Error: Could not connect to server”. So I went to my hosting site’s website Bluehost.com and realized that they changed my password to a stronger one and in the meantime gave me a temporary password.
    Um, yeah that was sure nice of them to let me know that before. So after I changed my temporary password to something I’d actually remember, I went back to Filezilla and entered my new password in and…. (yaya!!) it workded.

    reccarebellion

    (@reccarebellion)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    Help me…
    Im pretty sure that ive put

    host: wordpress.com
    and also tried…
    ftp://wordpress.com

    my username and pass in wordpress

    leave the port blank

    Status: Resolving address of collegechic.us
    Status: Connecting to 98.129.212.3:21…
    Status: Connection attempt failed with “ECONNREFUSED – Connection refused by server”.

    thats what ive got. i dont get it could you help me please?

    thank you.

    reccarebellion

    (@reccarebellion)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    well i’ll accept suggestion to use another way to instal the themes =D

    batrachoid

    (@batrachoid)

    13 years, 12 months ago

    If you have a wordpress.COM blog, you don’t have FTP access. It’s a free blog – you’re limited to what’s available in your dashboard.

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