How to install WordPress on the server?

[#1]

Thank you Spider and Gabe!
That looks simple enough, I will try that... Thank you!
Francis

[#2]

Hi all once again!
I just done what you have told me, and still do not work I have been taking pics of everything I have been doing, so judge for yourselves
Thank you anyway!
Francis
Here go the pics.

[#3]

First pic looks like you've put the folder in cgi-bin. That's only for different kinds of script, so drag it out of there into the folder above. Rename it "blog" or "wordpress" or whatever. Then stick the script David mentioned in the same folder, so you just have "cgi-bin", "blog" and "setperms.php" all in the root folder, next to each other. Use your ftp client to set the permissions on setperms.php to 700. Then run the script by calling it as ccgi.galrey.plus.com/setperms.php. Then call your site as ccgi.galrey.plus.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php and follow the instructions from there. Fingers crossed.
Gabe

[#4]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS, Thank you Gabe, I most get you a couple of paints....which pub do you go to?... Thank you!
Posting some pics
Francis
Thank you Spider and everyone involved to help me out with this

[#5]

Glad it worked out for you in the end. When I installed Wordpress I found I hit problems with permissions set to 700 but glad it worked for you at that level.

[#6]

Thank you very much for your help and everyone else
Francis

[#7]

Glad to hear you got it working. A few hiccups along the way but success at the end.
David

[#8]

Sorry for being a pain in the neck!... You will be thinking here we go again!, but a I have a couple of questions to ask you, if you didn't mind.
First thing, how do I make my blog to appear as http://www.<username>; Let me show you what I mean!
This link works:
http://ccgi.galrey.plus.com/blog1/
This link doesn't work:
http://www.galrey.plus.com/blog1/
Second question I tryed to upload an image and it wouldn't upload, infact my browaser went dead on me. It even wouldn't start even by closing it and restarting.
Infact I had to shut down my broadband connection, and restart then my browser started working again.

[#9]

Have you considered on getting your own domain name, and then point it at your PN webspace, much more tidy, and if you do decide to change ISP at some in the future, you keep your domain name.

[#10]

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This link works:
http://ccgi.galrey.plus.com/blog1/
This link doesn't work:
http://www.galrey.plus.com/blog1/
....

ccgi.galrey & www.galrey websites are hosted on different servers. The only way I know of pointing http://www.galrey.plus.com/blog1/ to http://ccgi.galrey.plus.com/blog1/ is to set up a redirect. You would have to create a .htaccess file will the following line:
Redirect 301 /blog1 http://ccgi.galrey.plus.com/blog1/
the .htaccess file then would need to be uploaded to htdocs in www website.

[#11]

It's never been explained to me why you have to have these cgi servers just to run php/mysql. Over on the PAYH servers, they have apache, php, and mysql - and all the html and php files are in the same place. much easier.  At it's not new I've been using such systems for about 5 years.

[#12]

Quote from: mal0z

and if you do decide to change ISP at some in the future, you keep your domain name.

My friend! there is no way that I leave Plusnet... Something terribly wrong must happen first before I do such thing.
The idea of having a domain name, it's very good, infact I do have a domain name that expires next yearand I am not using at the moment,
and it's host by another Web host provider the one I was using before I joined Plusnet and it's call Claranet. As I have said I will try to transfer
it to Plusnet, it's a <domainname>.co.uk
Thank you for the idea
Francis

[#13]

Quote from: Spider

ccgi.galrey & www.galrey websites are hosted on different servers. The only way I know of pointing http://www.galrey.plus.com/blog1/ to http://ccgi.galrey.plus.com/blog1/ is to set up a redirect. You would have to create a .htaccess file will the following line: Redirect 301 /blog1 http://ccgi.galrey.plus.com/blog1/ the .htaccess file then would need to be uploaded to htdocs in www website.

Spider thank you for this sugestion, but I think it will complicate things even more. I quite like the idea from maI0z of using a domain name which I do have, but it's hosted
by another web hosting commpany, I think the best thing to do it's to get it back and transfer it to Plusnet.
Still I haven't had any answers on regard to why I can't upload files(images) to the blog. Do I change the priviliges on setperms.php?
Thank you!

[#14]

If you look in
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Image_and_File_Attachments
You'll find:

Quote

Prerequisite for Uploading Files In order to use all these tools, you have to change the chmod of wp-content folder to 777.

Unfortunately, on the current ccgi platform, that's a really bad idea.
Wordpress has a slightly iffy way of setting file permissions, guessing the correct setting from the containing folder.
Three ways of working round that:
You'll see in the posting mentioned by David that an acceptable alternative to permissions of 710 for folders is 750 (no higher and NOT applied to files). Rather than setting wp-content to 777, as Wordpress suggest, you can safely use 750, just for wp-content and its subfolders. You can use your ftp client (or the setperms script placed in wp-content with $dperm=0710; changed to $dperm=0750;) to change the permissions on wp-content to 750 and recurse into subdirectories, applied to directories only but NOT files.
A second option involves simple edits to three of Wordpress's script files, but I'm guessing you'd prefer to avoid that.
A third option would be to put the images on a non-Plusnet image-hosting site, and link to them with the "From URL" option. That may sound complicated but it saves a lot of bandwidth on Plusnet, and bandwidth can be a bit limiting for image-heavy sites.
In any case, I don't think the upload problem should have crashed your browser. It should just have left a broken image icon on the page.
Gabe

[#15]

@Frangal
OK of course like all of us here love PN 
But having you own url makes lots of things easier and tidyer
http://www.galrey.org.uk
instead of
http://www.galrey.plus.com/
and probably more important simplifies email addresses.