Metal Tiger Reloaded

Learning how to navigate in PHP and mySQL on the web server has been so much fun. It’s like smashing your little toe with a small hammer again and again and again until you just can’t stand it any longer. Does any of this sound familiar. Maybe its just me, it usually is, I am slow like that. Sometimes lessons come hard to the hard-headed.

From the beginning the goal was to put the Metal Tiger site using WordPress in the root directory of a new web site. Simple goal really. The first time installation of WordPress was attempted, all went smoothly. The trouble was the install was into a subdirectory www.metaltiger.org/blog which left the root open for the index.html file to display all of its horrible glory. After two days of futzing around I came up with an idea. Two days to get an idea, again I’m slow remember. The files have been manipulated using WS-FTP uploading to the server. The idea came that it would be possible to rename the folder that was necessary to upload to the server to the same name that all of the root directory files were in. Brilliant idea! Now when I transferred the files they were in the root directory and the execution of WordPress install will take place there. The result is that WordPress will be in the root directory where it is supposed to be for this site. After backing up all of the files in the httpdoc directory on the server, I uploaded to the root directory all of the WordPress files through FTP. Presto-Chango! It works!

There you have it. www.metaltiger.org is up and running now. The plan for the web site is simple; learn WordPress and have some fun doing it. If you enjoy any of the stuff there just let me know. The Metal Tiger is a mythical creature and it may take a while to tell all of the tales that have been told concerning him. Actually, its not a him or a her because the Metal Tiger is really more of an idea. More later too much futzing around to do right now.