Alex you saved me hours of frustration. Please keep the Joomla videos coming. I am creating my first Joomla website and your videos have helped me tremendously.

…:the Joomla files as in the video (but, again, not to the right in File manager) and a MacOSx folder. I go to the site and there is still the standard holding page from namecheap.
I then tried the fantastico option (after deleting the previous attempts from my server) just to see if I could get the Joomla standard site. Now all the joomla files ARE in the right hand field of the file manager, but same story on the domain: the namecheap holding page. Any ideas? Is my mac to blame.
Cheers

Excellent video! I did however get stuck. I did everything manually and got to the point where I expanded the zip drive. (the zip was called Joomla_1.zip which I found strange since I dwnld the latest 1.5 version) I can see all the files in the public folder but not to the right in the file manager I am doing all of this on a Mac and when I unzipped, I got two sets of seemingly identical files in two folders:

I use the cheapest package with namecheap, and the cheapest with godaddy as well. On either one you can install Joomla without having to split up the zip. You will only ever have to split up the zip on some of the free hosts.

Can you tell me which webhosting package from namecheap we should use to upload joomla without splitting the zip?

thanks

Thank you it’s helpful.

its the same steps

man your my hero.. some guy asked me to make him a web site he can add content to himself and I think you just helped me do it… thanks!

If you expect to be able to troubleshoot problems as they arise with your instance (and problems WILL arise), you had better be sure you understand how your installation works. Anyone at all serious about their site should NOT be using an autoinstaller.

That’s simply not true. Some providers dont have an autoinstaller. When they do, it’s often not the most recent version (eg. 1.0.15 joomla and not 1.5). Also, upgrading an autoinstalled web app is harder than upgrading a manually installed one. Autoinstallers also name the db/admin for you. Also, doing it yourself is gratifying: you learn more and can redo it anywhere without depending on an autoinstaller.

thats dumb just go to auto installer and install Joomla or Wordpress or Simple Machines

php nuke can you show us how

Ooh i practicing with free host and it works thank you very much Alex.

Yes i see some providers have a 5mb file size limit, so you will HAVE to split up the zip if this is the case. Also, make sure you have MYSQL support before you install; most providers that cap file at 5mb dont have mysql either.

The other thing you can do if you dont want to use an ftp client is unzip joomla to your computer, then select half the files and folders , right click and “add to archive” (select “zip” if you have more than 1 option). Then select the other half of the files and folders and do the same (give a different name). Then use cpanel to transfer both zips and extract.

Then download an ftp client. i recommend core ftp (free). Make an account in the ftp client that matches the ftp account you make in cpanel. For “Host/IP/URL” in the ftp client DO NOT add “ftp” (for example,i set that value to “alexwestconsulting . com”). Now simply connect to your hosted site and copy the zip over. Continue with this tutorial back in cpanel at the point where file has been transferred.

Are you on namecheap? Namecheap allowsmore than 5mb. If you are on another provider you will have to ftp the joomla package. Go into cpanel>files>ftp accounts and create an ftp account if you dont already have one.

Hi, i cant upload the packages because Cpanel allowed 5MB so How? packages is 5 point somthing MB

Hi, i cant upload the packages because Cpanel allowed 5MB so How? packages is 5. somthing