bodsham

Thanks for all the useful help. I don't think Drupal's going to work for me unfortunately. I wish Plone would run on TCH but there you go.

Oh that's very kind of you but please dont spend the time on my behalf. It looks an interesting CMS but the installation is torture...

Has anyone experience of using Drupal? Does it work OK on TCH? And if you did get it working do you have any tips on decoding the installation instructions which are surely the most cryptic I've ever seen?

And it worked! Thanks. Thought I'd tried that combination along the way but clearly I hadn't.

I am trying to set up Blogjet, the blog client, to work with the Movable Type and Wordpress installations I'm trying out. It works fine with MT and uploads pictures. However, for the Wordpress installation you have to set up an ftp installation in order to be able upload pictures. I have completely failed at this. Could someone please advise... my ftp server is, I assume, ftp.mysite.com After that I'm asked for the remote folder. I've tried a combination of things, trying to aim it at folders I've created... /public_html/wordpress /home/mysitename/public_html/wordpress None of it works. Sometimes it can't find the folder. Sometimes it says it can't create the folder. None of it works. This is a pity because I rather like the look of Wordpress (you get decent typography out of the box which is important for an old print person like me). Has anyone any insights please?

Thanks for the friendly welcome... you can guarantee I'll be back the next time I'm stuck.

I went shopping after that initial post and, given the odd way the brain works, thought, in between aisles: you assumed it would just set up the right directories like Windows, idiot. I was right. I just had to create/direct the right directories. Same with Wordpress which, unless you really want to get your hands dirty, needs to be in the same directory as the index page you produce. And you need to understand that directories work on the /home/mywebsite/public_html/mt kind of format, nothing so simple as an extension of your domain name, and certainly not what you see in your browser window. All of this is doubtless obvious to people around here but for newcomers it will, I hope, be of a little use. Anyway both work now though I'm not using them. I actually run two blogs on TypePad and want to transfer them, if I can manage it, to MT here, where my main website is (which uses some very interesting software called Effective Site Studio - you can see my cack-handed results at www.davidhewson.com, which reflect my abilities, not that of ESS). For anyone labouring over the TCH instructions I should point out they are out-of-date. You will also need to make the right files executable before you point your browser to them. You need to understand the database set up correctly. And in Wordpress you need to delete some extra carriage spaces at the end of the admin file. Otherwise you just get error messages. Some of this open source software is amazing but the idea it's 'free' only applies, as someone once said, to people who place no value on their time.

Having reached the limits of my mental ability in getting MT installed and apparently working correctly, I now find that I can't actually publish pages to my sub-domain (which is, I believe, set up correctly). After publishing and clicking view my site al I see is the directory with the cgi.bin and no index file. If any MT experts here could illuminate this one I would be very grateful. Thanks for all the tips I've pickd up since joining TCH on Saturday - learned more about the web this weekend in years, and my head now hurts.