After looking at the tutorial, to download/unpack/upload Coppermine...
1. I went to Coppermine's site.
2. I downloaded the most stable version.
3. I unzipped it to a directory on my Hard Drive.
4. I opened up Cute FTP
5. I tried to upload it to my server.
6. I got "there is no /public_html/gallery directory" error. (that was my directory for when I tried to install "Gallery" by menalto.com, btw)
7. When I created a directory "gallery" in /public_html, and then highlighted my coppermine and uploaded...the GALLERY files started to upload.
What's that about?! I didn't even HIGHLIGHT the Gallery files!
I'm so lost....
Edit: The exact error I'm getting is:
505 Can't change directory to /public_html/gallery: No such file or directory.
So I'm confused why Coppermine is trying to go to that directory when the tutorial tells me I only need to "simply install it and it will work fine."
I even wrote down what I was to do to get Coppermine to install onto my server.
Please advise what I'm doing wrong.
Keep in mind: I am a school teacher. I am not a programmer nor am I a compu-guru... so I would appreciate plain, understandable English.
When I earlier installed Coppermine via Fantastico...it installed correctly...but then I tried to upload a picture...and got "That picture can't be uploaded. Your file was uploaded."... (as somebody else had problems in another forum).
I checked out that forum....and...since I didn't get my Bachelors degree in computer programming, I left...since I would have had just as easy a time had the entire forums been written in Greek.
Now, I understand that the error is on my side... however, I was just hoping to have a simple gallery on my site where my friends and family can post their pictures.
Is that a lot to ask?
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you very much.