Install your YORGOO Blaster

Nov 11th, 2008 | By Yorgo Nestoridis | Category: 2. Install YORGOO Blaster, Featured Articles

Step-by-Step Set-up and Install

1. Download the YORGOO Blaster zip and extract the contents to your hard drive.

2. To install your site you will need a hosted domain (get a Domain and Hosting from our recommended providers at Chihosters – get the Unlimited Pack for $35 per year)

3. Go to your cPanel and - create a sub-domain, if you wish to install the script on a sub-domain.

- create a MySql Database

- create an email account which you will use only for the purpose of this site

4. Open your FTP Client ( SmartFTP (30 days trial) or free FileZilla for example )

- connect to your host and upload all folders and files contained in the zip into the blog folder (if you load it to the root of your domain, so that it will appear under the URL http://mydomain.com then load it straight into ‘public_html’ ; if you want it to be addressed as http://mysubdomain.mydomain.com then load it into the folder called ‘mysubdomain’ under ‘public_html’, the same if you want it to be loaded into a sub-folder on your domain.)

5. Edit [wp-config-sample.php]

Edit the file called wp-config-sample.php by entering the name of your MySQL Database, The Username and the User Password you have created under 3 above.

To edit use your text editor such as Notepad or PSPad ( free Download and one of the best editors)

Change the name of wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php

6. Permissions: CHMOD

Change Permissions to 666 on the following 2 files:

- wp-config.php

- .htaccess

Change Permissions to 777 on the following folder:

wp-content

ONCE YOU ARE FINISHED WITH SET-UP AND TUNING, RESET TO:

wp-content          755
wp-config.php     644
.htaccess              644

7. Run Install

Type into your browser :

YourSiteURL/wp-admin/install.php

Example:

http://yorgooblaster.YourDomain.com/wp-admin/install.php (if you use a sub-domain)

http://YourDomain.com/wp-admin/install.php if you install in the domain’s root folder.

Follow the steps and …

8. Login to your back-office (Dashboard):

9. Change Password In your Admin area select Users, then admin and edit your User Data there, change the password to something you will remember.

10. Select Theme under ‘Presentation’, select YORGOO Blaster by double clicking on the screenshot YORGOO Blaster.

You are all done, continue with:

Configure your Yorgoo Blaster

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Bianca November 17th, 2008 11:06 am :
. . . and yet another question please!

This may sound stupid, however, as I am looking for contextual
feeds for my latest LOUIS VUITTON Blog

http://www.smartbidtips.net/new

I sometimes get the response: NO FEED FOUND

What exactly is actually happening here… versus having no problem
when adding /feed/ behind a blog or site url that is of interest to me?

Thanks & let’s have a super GouRou Day!
Yorgo November 17th, 2008 11:27 am :
Not every website is providing a feed and not every website which is providing a feed provides it through a folder called ‘feed’.

The ‘/feed’ after the URI works namely on WordPress sites. On others it could be something like RSS or you could look for an xmlrpc.php file. The site map may help or some times Google by calling the domain and feed or RSS.

Some site owners protect their content and don’t want to share it. Therefore no feed. It also means that they close doors for wide proliferation of their content via means of Syndication.

There are some specialized websites which may be of help such as http://bloglines.com/search

or

http://www.thefeeddirectory.com/p/HOME___1.html

Some of my favorites are FeedDemon now NewsGator and http://syndic8.com
Alejandra November 17th, 2008 12:11 pm :
This is great, I was just having these same questions Bianca wrote and have the answer right here.Thanks again Yorgo !!!
Hector Herrera December 5th, 2008 11:54 pm :
I spent more than 48 hours trying to install the Yorgoo Blaster,following your instructions. When I rund the install.php ,all I got was an error message. I need some help here. I uploaded all my Yorgoo Files to a new folder under public.html. Then I changed the permissions. Set up the database etc.
Do I have to change my DNS in YorgooDom?
Where do I get help?
Regards
Hector Herrera
Yorgo December 6th, 2008 1:23 am :
Hector, sorry to hear that. Please send me your cPanel access and I will install it for you. In yorGOdom you need to point the domain to your server’s DNS, if you need help with that, just let me know what the domain name is and we will change the settings for you.

If you want to do it by yourself:

1. yorGOdom: click on your domain name, you see the domain control panel. On DNS Server ‘Change Service: to ‘user’ and if you are on ChiHosters enter into lines one and two:

dns1.yorgonet.com
dns2.yorgonet.com

[I have just done this for you and it may take a few minutes to propagate].

2. Loading and installing: if you need help just post a ticket to Chi Customer support indicating your cPAnel access and we will take care of it.

Thanks for your comment, I will add the instruction about the DNS Settings to the site.
Richard Taylor December 6th, 2008 3:47 am :
Password and mysql name correct In the config file it asks for localhost Itried different ones But when I go To ..

http://www.stargrams.net/Blaster/index.php/wp-admin/install.php I get error messge from wp.

Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at hostgator.com. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

* Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
* Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
* Are you sure that the database server is running?

my site for blaster is http://www.stargrams.net/Blaster

Richard Taylor
Hector Herrera December 6th, 2008 6:27 pm :
It’s Alive !
Thanks Zo for your great support . My problem was not having set up my DNS from Yorgodom and not having the right user names and password in my database.
It took me some time to figure it out. Now I am a master.
Well my next project is getting the Yorgoblaster to blast.
Please check my new site.
Thanks
Hector
scott December 7th, 2008 12:28 am :
I am having the same issue as Hector.
dominick lagreca December 14th, 2008 6:19 am :
All I can say is that your system is the worst to get to send an email out !

I can not figure out how to work it, and I see I am not the only one.
Yorgo December 15th, 2008 9:53 am :
Dominick, YORGOO Blaster is not a system to send mails out, but to send mails in to…:-). There are some 300 blasters set up by now and there is only a handful of people having problems. The problems are not YB related in most cases but due to a lack of understanding or knowledge in relation to hosting, cPanel or email set up.

We are providing every Friday evening as from 8 pm London Time Webmaster Trainings which cover all topics related to hosting and blog mastering. I can only invite you to join and forward your questions live.

To resume YB: YB is essentially a modified self hosted WP Blog script with multiple themes. It’s automated performance is based on the fact that you can import content from RSS and Atom feeds and via email.

In short: YB acts like a feed reader and like a mailbox which imports content automatically. To make the system work, we use timers to import feeds and automated server commands (Cron Jobs) to empty the mail boxes into the blog whereas the mail content gets published in form of blog posts.

YORGOO Blaster may be difficult to understand in the beginning and for people who have little experience with self hosted content managed sites, however, with a bit of effort and training and by following the very precise set up instructions everyone can set it up and reach the projected goals. Alternatively we offer install services from the customer area.

When releasing the Blaster we wanted to give a financial advantage to those who have the necessary expertise to set it up by themselves and therefore we sell the script at such a low price. A normal price for a completely set up and configured site would be something around $150 to $200 minimum, looking at prevailing market conditions. It has always been our goal to pair a good deal with providing knowledge to satisfy our customers’ needs.

On the other hand, you will also understand, that on a $47 deal we cannot spend 2 hours with every customer to give individual set-up training; 2 hours are not enough if the customer wants to learn what took others years to learn.

You also can do a simple thing: go to Google and query “what’s a Cron Job” or “how to set up email accounts” and so on and you will find answers to all questions you may have. The cPanels are also equipped with extensive help files and flash movies to make your life easier.

For your convenience, we have set up the webmaster trainings on Fridays; they are free and provided by pros who have years of experience in the fields of your concern.

Yorgo

PS: If you are on ChiHostes, please note that the mail out server needs authentication and uses port 26 as indicated in cPanel under “configure your mail client”…:-).
Yorgo December 15th, 2008 10:02 am :
Re: config.php

Scott and Hector, if you read the text of the config.php file, you see the comment that ‘localhost’ does not need to be changed in 99% of the cases.

‘localhost’ is a standard terms that designs the host where the script is loaded and on cPanel accounts it works. If the term ‘localhost’ does not work, then just enter the main domain of the hosting account. If you are hosted by Supreme for example, that is what you have to enter, while on ChiHosters you just leave it to ‘localhost’.

Notice also that the name of the data base and the user name is composed of your hosting username and the name you gave that data base and user.

Example: If you domain was domain.com and your hosting username was ‘domain’ then the data base name and username will always start with ‘domain_’ . To that you add the name you created for example ‘user’ which will result in: ‘domain_user’ for the DB user and if you called the data base ‘data’ the DB name would be ‘domain_data’.

Yorgo
ALAN JOHNSON December 15th, 2008 10:32 pm :
Hello YORGOOBlaster Support,

Support I go threw and set up the the 1 threw 6 installation process, everything seems to go ok / until I get to where it ask to install – wp-admin/install.php – into my browser [with domain name] I do this both ways with http://domainname goprobiz.com/wp-admin/install.php and http://goprobiz.com/domainname/wp-admin/install.php

When loaded into browser I get a I get a 404not found. I come to a dead end…cannot go any further.

I know these instructions work, but for some reason I get stuck in this area. I know it’s me and it’s probably something small I’m doing wrong…Boy if I can just get this right there is no stopping this train…

I will leave another comment with my info for this blaster if I may?

Thank You
Alan Johnson
Yorgo December 17th, 2008 10:47 am :
Alan, your installation is correct. Please use the link to login and load the theme then on:

http://goprobiz.com/yorgooblaster/greatdeals/wp-admin

In as much as your other installations are concerned, I found one under ‘networking’ and another one under ‘marketing’:

in some cases you use folders, in others you use sub-domains. If you get the error 404 it’s because the link you use is not correct, for example is you use:

http://goprobiz.com/networking/Yorgooblaster/

instead of:

http://networking.goprobiz.com/Yorgooblaster/

Networking is a sub-domain and it is true you will get there also by typing in the sub domain as a folder; however we have defined the way the blog builds links under settings and permalinks in your dashboard. You will see there that your blog URI is http://networking.goprobiz/Yorgooblaster and therefore you have to respect that set-up.

This applies to all your installations. If this does not answer your question: please let me know with which installation you experience problems and I will fix it for you.

Some additional remarks:

Under http://goprobiz.com you still display the server default page; to change that, just edit under public_html the file called index.html

You could also load a blog there, namely an authority blog, sort of an umbrella for all your specific niche blogs (in such a case you may consider using a Semiomantics XO script); if you load a blog to that domain root, just delete index.html as the blog has an index.php.

The blog’s index.php will not automatically display if you leave the index.html as html comes before php in the alphabet.

I also noticed that you have prepared folders for loads of key-word related content, most of them being sub-domains which is fine. Whenever you use a sub domain, the sub domain name just replaces the www in your link and the subfolders contained within the sub-domain folders are added after the main domain name:

Example:
sub domain name: networking
install folder: Yorgoblaster
domain name: goprobiz.com

the link is therefore:

http://networking.goprobiz.com/Yorgooblaster

Hope this helps :-).
Cris Gethers January 21st, 2009 2:46 am :
My problem is I have been going through set-up and I did some today at work. However, when I try to access the dashboard using the wp-login.php, I get a 404 error. Earlier today I got in from clicking on my domain name in the “client area” at ChiHosters. I got home and could not get back in. I’m sure that I have done something wrong, however, I’m not sure what it is. I’ve spent a lot of time on this so far and would like to just get the thing set up, but I cannot access my login area. Please help.
Cris

Cris, please send me your admin login and FTP details to http://yorgooblaster.com/help and we will fix it for you.