Virtual Clover

Also, unless you use something like theme my login, you will want to add the “meta” widget to one of your sidebars so you can log in easier, otherwise you’ll have to make a direct link somewhere to the login page. The WP name and pw for this forum isn’t the one you need, it’s the one you set up when you installed it – just for the record. That one won’t work here unless you made them the same.

I don’t promise this is the be all end all solution, just a couple of questions for clarification…but did you check the location path to see if the folder in question is where it’s supposed to be? If it is there, then maybe it could be a permissions issue that is preventing the access to the folder itself. If the folder is not there, did you manually create the folder where it says it couldn’t be created? If not, give that a try and see if it works.

Unfortunately at this moment at 4am (insomnia and boredom, sue me) I don’t recall specifically what the write permission code/number is, I *think* it’s like 667 but don’t quote me, someone else will surely know. I’m also too sleepy to google it ;-p But look around for the write permissions and open your ftp client, right lick the directory and change the permissions if it’s not already set properly. And if it is, that’s probably not the problem.

I know it’s not A1 help but something to try and eliminate if you haven’t already. If nothing else, it can narrow things down more.

I think kosonome understood what you meant 😉 FTP is a much easier and bs free solution to uploading/downloading your site files. Hostgator is good and the file manager is okay, but you’ll greatly appreciate setting up your FTP (filezilla) client. In the time it takes you to upload 10 files using hostgator’s file manager, you can already be working on your site having uploaded with filezilla. It’s lightning speed faster than the file manager, and that is why ftp is better than file manager. You can edit on the computer and send them right up.

And your client or the server – the ftp client logs into the server and loads the files. So does file manager.

Filezilla is easy (and free) to set up. Launch FZ, select File/Site Manager, select New Site, and in these fields add your information (hostgator supplies this information in your registration confirmation email):

Host: yourdomain.com/net/org/etc
FTP: File Transfer Protocol selected
Encryption: default: use plain ftp
Logon Type: normal
Account: hostgator acct user id
pw: hostgator password
Ok
Connect

The left side is your computer’s file manager…click through and find the location of the content you want uploaded.
The right side is the server/file manager…click through there to the root folder or desired folder you want the content.
On the left side, select everything you want to upload and hit the upload button, or right click and select upload.
3 seconds later, you’re all done.

Think of it as a side to side transfer – local on the left, site host on the right, find it, send it over.

File manager is conceptually more a top/bottom kind of transfer. You go up to the hosting site into the folder you want stuff to come to. Then select upload and it opens the same file manager as in ftp – you select the stuff and click upload…and up it goes.

Same difference, only FTP clients are 100x faster.

…and as an aside, godaddy specializes in domains – their hosting support is crappy, so perhaps consider going with a service specializing in hosting. (hostgator is good and affordable).

To expand BR’s question…and did you change wp_config-sample.php to wp_config.php? Double check that the database username and password are correctly input? That would be on wordpress’ side, and something warping out during upload…and if it’s not that, then it’s on godaddy’s side and good luck getting them on the ball…

Your request seems a little bit vague so going off of your statement you’re a complete novice with limited technical expertise, I am inclined to assume you’re not familiar with FTP? I mean no insult, just not sure what “limited” means in your case, or how limited 😉

1. google FTP client software, Filezilla is a good free one, download and install, launch; select file/site manager and add in your hosting info (should’ve come in your registration confirmation email for hosting/domain). Basically your domain path, user id and password

2. make sure your webhost supports mySQL and php; if so, usually the control panel provides an option to set up the database or a database wizard that’ll whip one up for you. Name it and the password. And make sure the domain is active and the nameservers are set correctly.

3. Unzip wp3.3 and pull the contents to your “work” folder for whatever the site is. Find wp_config-sample.php and change it to wp_config.php
3A – open it using notepad++ or whatever editor and add in your information for:

database user name, database password (from the database wizard); then scroll down to the SALT authentication section and copy the url, paste it in a browser window, load: copy all that code that comes up and then replace the code shown in the config file with the copied code. Enable multisite if applicable. Save.

4. Open FTP client and log into site. Go to root (main site folder) or a directory if you want it in a separate directory.
root = yourdomain.com
sub directory = yourdomain.com/blogfolder/

5. Open the wordpress folder and highlight everything in it on the left hand side of your FTP client. Click the upload button. Give it a few minutes and everything should be moved to the folder chosen.

All uploaded.

type in your domain url or path to the wp installation, should have the main activation screen. Fill out your info, save, log in…enjoy

If you meant something else, apologies…but that’s how it reads – how to upload wordpress…

Here’s another one – simple, easy, nice

http://mapservices.org/myguestmap/