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2. Installation: Getting Joomla Up and R... > Time for action — placing the files ...
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:
- In your FTP program, browse to the folder containing the unzipped Joomla files. Select all files (do not select the folder, only its contents).
- Select the target directory, the root directory of the web server. The root directory is often called
httpdocs, htdocs, httpd, public_html, orwww. 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 (
httpdocsor any of the other names listed earlier). This name won't show up in the web address of your site. Visitors don't have to typewww.example.com/httpdocs, just www.example.com will take them to your site. However, if you create a folder withinhttpdocs, this folder name will show up in your web address. If you create the folderhttpdocs/joomlaand install Joomla there, your site will be accessible only through www.example.com/joomla. This means you should only create such a subfolder if this is what you want (for example, when you are just testing Joomla and you want to keep using the root directory for your existing site).
