What files need to be in wwwroot

[DirtyLittlePuppy]

I am just trying to get EE to work for me on my own server. PHP, SQL all new to me... Your quick install guide says "upload all files to your server". How much of what must be in the gallery root directory? All EE files? Any of the PHP directory? It doesn't matter for my own server but if I need to go to a hosting service I would be concerned with MBytes used just to get it running.

Also you mention about thumb folders "chmod them to 0777" ahh... what's this? The linked tutorial seems to be off line.

Your website is great and I am really looking forward to gettting EE running.

[Pekka]

DirtyLittlePuppy wrote:
I am just trying to get EE to work for me on my own server. PHP, SQL all new to me... Your quick install guide says "upload all files to your server". How much of what must be in the gallery root directory? All EE files? Any of the PHP directory? It doesn't matter for my own server but if I need to go to a hosting service I would be concerned with MBytes used just to get it running.

Also you mention about thumb folders "chmod them to 0777" ahh... what's this? The linked tutorial seems to be off line.

Your website is great and I am really looking forward to gettting EE running.

Hi,

Easiest way IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) is to get SmartFtp from www.smartftp.com
and WinZip from www.winzip.com

Then unzip the whole install package to a temporary folder. Winzip unpacks everything into correct folder structure.

Everything you unzipped should be uploaded to same folder in your server. Smartftp takes care of uploading whole folder system at once, just like you copy files on desktop. You make folders on your server using Smartftp's right click menu (New->folder). You may name this target folder "gallery" or "ee" or "images" - it's entirely up to you and you can change it later if you change paths inside ee to match.

About chmod: when you right click a folder (on right hand side window) in Smartftp you get an option to "Properties / CHMOD". Click that and you get a dialog where you can either type 777 or click all tick boxes with a mouse. 777 means all permissions are open to everyone. Don't set any other folder to 777 than instructed in ee install guide.

Most ftp programs have similar dialog for setting file and folder permissions using chmod command.

Hope this helps.