HELP!!! I have been trying to set up my blog in what has taken weeks and I need help from someone who has done this before. Here is my story: I have a website with doteasy hosting and I am trying to set up a blog for the site levnow.com/blog. I followed the doteasy instructions to the best of my knowledge http://www.doteasy.com/Support/Tutorials/WordPress/ I set up a mysql database in doteasy, for which I don't why. I am somewhat confused by part c step 1 I uploaded the wordpress set up stuff to my frontpage file and published when I go to yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin.php I get an error 404 page. If you have every set up a wp blog in frontpage on doteasy please, please, please help.
Frontpage on doteasy? It's easy...upload the entire wordpress file onto your server (yes, even the wordpress folder). This now means that you will find your file at yourdomain.com/wordpress Edit the config file with your mySQL info and then install at yourdomain.com/wordpress Login at yourdomin.com/wordpress/wp-admin If you need help or would like me to install it, just contact me
WHAT!!!! I know with makes me sound like a two year old but does that mean I put it on doteasy or in my frontpage file?
WordPress is probably the most-easy-to-install script ever! hahaha... In a nutshell: 1. Create your mySQL db. 2. Modify your wp-config.php (you can do this in notepad!, no need for frontpage) 3. Dump everything up your server 4. Access your blog and follow 2 steps! It doesn't matter if your if your host is doteasy or what. If you have FTP access, and your mySQL login credentials, its the same process The original WordPress Installation instructions here. BTW, are they still providing WordPress 1.5 from the tutorial page? 2.0.4 is just released.... 8 hours ago. Download it here.
Thanks to everyone that helped with this question. I have finally figured it out thanks to your help. I know what ftp means and does, I know the difference between ftp client and server. I am always glad to learn something new. You might just make a web techie out of me soon. Special thank you to Yinten and Cy. Thanks again.