Setting up the Weblog

To get started with the wizard you must supply two peices of information; the Base URL and the Base Path of the weblog.

The Base URL is the top most URL the weblog will have. It must begin with the protocol and should not end with a filename. Examples of valid base URLs might be http://www.yourblog.com, http://www.yourblog.com/subfolder/blog, etc.

The Base Path is the path on the FTP server, network, or disk drive that you upload the files to. Typically for FTP this path is either "/" or "/public_html", or something similiar. If you're publishing via FTP and are unsure of what your path is, you can obtain it from a standard FTP client such as FileZilla (http://filezilla.sf.net). From the FileZilla screenshot below, we can see that the Base Path should be /www/public_html



Since we’re just getting started, we’ll create a weblog that publishes to the local drive. Thus we’ll use a "file URL" for the base URL. The file URL and Base Path will point to a directory on the local machine.

Note: File URLs may behave differently on different platforms and different web browsers. You may need to consult your OS/Browser documentation and adjust the URL as needed.

Assuming Thingamablog is running under a Windows platform fill out the fields as follows

Base URL: file:///C:/weblog/
Base Path: /weblog

Or, under Unix based file systems...…
Base URL: file:///home/your_user/weblog
Base Path: /home/your_user/weblog

After you’re done with the first screen, click the next button. The next screen asks you to enter a title and description for the weblog. For the title enter "Test Weblog" along with a short description in the description text area. The Description can be as long as you like and may include HTML tags.

Click Next