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shredder · 12-09-2005, 12:51

thanks for your help guys!
chickendippers that guide is really helpful, thank you, but i can't seem to find any reference to the file it says already exists to delete it??

chickendippers · 12-09-2005, 13:01

It'll vary from host to host, if you want to PM me your website address I might be able to figure out what you need to do. Alternatively if you want to take a screenshot of your public_html directory and PM that to me that would enable me to help you.

12-09-2005, 13:01

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Originally Posted by shredder

ummm what does this mean?

You chose to install in the main directory of the domain www.xxxxx.co.uk, but there are conflicting filenames, therefore we can not proceed. Following filenames already exist in the main directory of the domain xxxxx.co.uk (path="/home/xxxxx/public_html/").You must manually remove these files before proceeding with auto-installation:
index.php

How do i manually remove files?

ok - you chose to install a 'new' site in what amounts to the 'root' folder of your webspace (which is the public_html folder) - the 'new' site wanted to install a file called 'index.php' - and there is already one there.

It is better to install any new stuff in its own folder, which you can specify when you run the fantastico script - e.g if you ran the Wordpress installation, you might tell it to install in a folder called 'blog'. It will then be available as http//yoursite.co.uk/blog.

Re manually editing the site - you would need an FTP client to do that - be careful though -I seem to have messed up my site by doing just that

shredder · 12-09-2005, 14:49

can anyone recommend a good FTP client to use with IE?
thank you!

chickendippers · 12-09-2005, 15:03

FTP clients are stand-alone products.
Crystal FTP Pro (http://www.casdk.com/prod/cftp/?lref=www_frontpage) is possibly the best client available; it's easy to use and packed-full with features however the trial has a time limit.
I don't know any really good free FTP software, personally I think Filezilla is hard to use.

shredder · 12-09-2005, 15:32

arrrgh this is driving me mad! i have no idea what i am doing! i'm starting to think this is a bad idea! where on earth do i go to start making my homepage! arrrrrrrgh!

12-09-2005, 16:05

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Originally Posted by shredder

arrrgh this is driving me mad! i have no idea what i am doing! i'm starting to think this is a bad idea! where on earth do i go to start making my homepage! arrrrrrrgh!

There are two stages to making your own homepage, the first is building the site itself, the second is uploading it to the webspace. (some programs will do both)

The idea is that you get the site running on your 'local' pc then upload using ftp.

- I think you should get an ftp client sorted out first, but that is just imho.

Ultimately, it isn't 'difficult', there is just a lot of new stuff to take on all at once - you'll suss it, given time - and there are people on here to help

willie · 13-09-2005, 00:01

ok depending if you are on linux or win2003 hosting you will need to upload your site to public_html directory for linux or the httpdocs directory for the windows hosting