July 8, 2008
In yesterdays Weekly Review post, I mentioned that I would be starting from scratch to help everyone learn more about using BANS with WordPress. This post is the first I will be doing, which covers installing WordPress by using Fantastico, provided with your HostGator account.
The process is really as simple as 3 mouse clicks after you have logged into your cPanel.
If you don’t use HostGator for wordpress hosting, you should check it out.
Mark
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Hi Mark,
Can you please help?
It’s been a while since I did anything with bans and wanted to try to catch up with the new stuff.
I was following your really clear to follow video on installing wordpress (videos are great) through fantastico but got the followiing message.
The installation can not be completed:
- You chose to install in the main directory of the domain homelecs.co.uk, but there are conflicting filenames, therefore we can not proceed. Following filenames already exist in the main directory of the domain homelecs.co.uk (path=”/home/trevnic/public_html/”).You must manually remove these files before proceeding with auto-installation:
index.php
Click on the browser’s Back button to fix reported errors.
Have I missed out on some instructions?
Trevor
@ Trevor -
Fantastico is telling you that you already have the htacccess and index.php files on the root of the domain, so you dont accidentally overwrite them.
If you are fine with losing them, just go into your cPanel > file manager, and delete the files first.
Its a safeguard built into cPanel.
Bear in mind, if you already have BANS installed on the root of the domain, it will no longer work. BANS and WordPress MUST be in separate directories.
Mark