installation is not happening for me. WHY?

[mattj06]

I have been trying to install version 1.6 for the last 3 days now. I have tried everything...tutorials, forums. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Here is where I stand:

Host: Hostican
URL: www.mcjphotography.com

I have edited pixelpost.php to this:
$pixelpost_db_host = "localhost"; // database host, often "localhost"
$pixelpost_db_user = "mcjphtog_mattj06"; // database user
$pixelpost_db_pass = "*********"; // database user password
$pixelpost_db_pixelpost = "mcjphtog_Pixelpost"; // database

For some reason cuteFTP would not upload the pixelpost files correctly so I manually uploaded files to my host, and double checked to make sure all files were there and in the right location.

I have contacted my host, and they told me that hostican by default supports .php files.
I have created both image and thumbnail folders with permissions set to 777.
Both of my image/thumbnail folders do not have pictures in them yet.

All pixelpost files were placed in a folder "pixelpost" which I uploaded to my host under the location public_html.

I type this for installation:

www.example.com/home/username/public_html/pixelpost/admin/install.php

and get the 404! Error

I have come to the point where I really don't know what else to do. Please, if you have any idea what is going wrong for me, HELP!

Thank you all in advance!

Matt Jones

[jaywilliams]

That's because the public_html folder is where your site starts serving files.

For example, if you have a file called, index.html, and you upload it to the public_html folder, like this:

/home/username/public_html/index.html

You can access it online like this:

http://www.example.com/index.html


So your Pixelpost installation address would be:
http://www.example.com/pixelpost/admin/install.php

(With your domain name, of course, not example.com)

And once it is installed, simply going to
http://www.example.com/pixelpost
should load up your photoblog.

Enjoy!