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I obtained the tutorial. It's good.

I have used web editors before, but not really blogging editors.

This helps where things are blurry.

One note at this point. The ability to set up wordpress manually is not for the faint of heart. I have 2 service providers, and neither of them uses the fantastico cPanel gui. They use proprietary. Also they are hungry to collect fees for service contracts and set up, so they use proprietary control panels.

In one sense this shows they have programing and script chops. For the tutorial it is really futile to try to use anything else but fantastico cPanel as your tutorial shows.

Don't get me wrong, the tutorial is great. But the learning curve on setting up a manual install is really hard.

Yes I downloaded the wordpress and extracted it.

Yes, I was able to rescript the wp-config.php file.

Yes I was able to set up the SQL database with ID & PW and associate it with where I wanted to put wordpress.org materials.

Yes – I was able to make subdirectories, etc.

Yes I used FTP to up load the the server and everything seems to be there.

No – I can't call the admin program and set it up.

After all that work of about 6 hours, nothing. Everything seems to be done right, everything in it's place……..but to get it to work, there is no way out of calling for some expensive support time. They have something specific just out of reach, unless you know their config, or are willing to pay for that.

The jist is this. Don't bother to try this manually with a provider that won't help unless they get paid to do so. It is no beginners activity and it's a waste of money.

The provider I have even boasts about how good wordpress works on their webservers. I'm sure it does after they set it up and get paid.

Without the open framework of the visible fantasico cPanel gui as you describe it, it is way futile.

I just went with the free wordpress.com option. I can get the worth out of the instructions and how to set up stuff. That's very nice.

But if you can't get the admin program to load off of your providers server, forget it.

It's not your fault. They want to make money. So they config the servers to demand extra explicite steps. That is powerful if you need it, but for us "newbie non-techs" that high power consultation driven server admin is a pain in the glutius maximus.

I stick with your stuff Bina, because to me it's worth it. I return and have used your classes a lot. I have no plan to change.

Up front though, you could have said something like this: "REQUIREMENTS – must be willing to open a new web service provider, or be 100% certain that you have fantastico cPanel gui on the one you plan to use. DO NOT TRY THIS ON WEBSERVERS WITHOUT IT."

Without this, I'm not sure how much that I'm going to be able to customize using wordpress.com, but I'm going to try, and no hard feelings, really.

thanks

JD Peddle

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