Joomla! 2.5 Beginner’s Guide

Time for action – placing the files on the web server

Next, start up your FTP program (see the What do you need to start? section, discussed earlier in this chapter) and upload all the unzipped files in the folder to the web server. This is how you do it:

1. In your FTP program, browse to the folder containing the unzipped Joomla files. Select all files (do not select the folder, only its contents).
2. Select the target directory, the root directory of the web server. The root directory is often called httpdocs, htdocs, httpd, public_html, or www. If you can't find that folder, your web hosting company should be able to help you out.

   Tip

   Don't worry about the name of the root folder (httpdocs or any of the other names listed earlier). This name won't show ...