arrrhhhh! lol Have hosting plan on 1and1 installed joomla app bought cheap template installed template but cannot install the hotstart files which sets up the template to the same as the demo. Hot start installation says i need to upload files and folders to my hosting space using ftp software (not sure if this is neccesary with 1and1 click and build?) Tried installing filezilla but is like trying to read chinese for me. tried to upload manually in control panel but cannot figure it out. Please Please help. If need be I give you my password for the app and email you the hotstart zip file that needs to be uploaded? have several domains you can choose from that I will give you if someone can either walk me through this or do it for me! below are hot start installation steps ublished on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 11:07 Once you finish this installation method, you should get exactly the same copy of this Demo site on your server. Let's start! 1. Unzip file "hot_rockin1x_hotstart.zip" from the archive you downloaded after purchase. Unzip this archive to your computer. 2. Using FTP software (such as FileZilla) upload all files and folders to your hosting space. Make sure that folder where you uploaded files is writable by server (chmod 755 or 777). 3. In browser, open address http://www.your_site_address.com/joomla/index.php (change "your_site_address.com" with your site address, change "joomla" with folder name where you uploaded files, if you uploaded files to the root folder, you don't need this). 4. Select your language and click Next. 5. The installer will check your server to find out if it's compatible with Joomla. If you see any parts marked red, please contact your hosting provider to resolve the problem. If all items are green, you can click Next. 6. You can read Joomla License and click Next. 7. You should enter MySQL database connection parameters now. Please enter Host Name (usually "localhost"), username, password and database name and click Next. If you get error message, please check database parameters. If you don't know correct parameters, please contact your hosting provider. 8. On FTP Configuration page, you can enter parameters of your FTP server. This is not necessary and can be entered later, if needed. So, just click Next. 9. On Main Configuration screen you should enter Site Name, e-mail and administrator's username and password (twice). Click Install Sample Data button. (Otherwise, demo content won't be imported). Once you get "Sample data installed successfully" message, you may click Next. 10. As the Finish screen says, please remove "installation" folder from your server (use FTP software). 11. Congratulations, you are done! Click Site button to see your site's frontend, or Admin to see site's backend (login required with username and password that you selected during installation).
thank you for teh kind offers to help. I am understandably hesitant to relinquish my password and username and would love some instruction. My problem is after adding the file via ftp I go to my web browser and type in the appropriate url to the file but instead of initiating install of the sample data it either sends me to a text page of a bunch of joomla and command data or it tells me the page is 404 not found. I think I am doing something wrong and am going to try again today. Any ideas what could be wrong?
ok It worked thank you to those who tried to help though! problem was i could not install the template with sample data without wiping the directory clean of all templates. was on the phone for an hour and 15 minutes with 1and1 tech support and he walked me through step by step.