Comments on: WordPress Tip: Backing Up Your Database http://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/24/wordpress-tip-back-up-your-database/ The Latest Trends in Technical Communication Sun, 27 May 2012 09:07:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tom Johnson http://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/24/wordpress-tip-back-up-your-database/comment-page-1/#comment-157833 Tom Johnson Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:33:19 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/?p=6450#comment-157833 Sorry, this part of the instructions is vague, I know. Here is a little more detail. Download Filezilla and connect to your web host. (You need your FTP information for the login and password to connect via FTP.) Navigate to the plugin folder containing the htaccess file. It will be named htaccess.txt. Download the file to your local computer. Then delete that file from the directory where it was stored in your plugins folder. Now upload that file into the new folder specified by that message. After you upload it, right click the file and change its name to .htaccess (leaving out the .txt file extension). I should probably make a video showing this, but for now this is as much detail as I can include. Sorry, this part of the instructions is vague, I know. Here is a little more detail. Download Filezilla and connect to your web host. (You need your FTP information for the login and password to connect via FTP.) Navigate to the plugin folder containing the htaccess file. It will be named htaccess.txt. Download the file to your local computer. Then delete that file from the directory where it was stored in your plugins folder. Now upload that file into the new folder specified by that message. After you upload it, right click the file and change its name to .htaccess (leaving out the .txt file extension). I should probably make a video showing this, but for now this is as much detail as I can include.

]]> By: Lorraine http://idratherbewriting.com/2010/05/24/wordpress-tip-back-up-your-database/comment-page-1/#comment-156576 Lorraine Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:33:09 +0000 http://www.idratherbewriting.com/?p=6450#comment-156576 Tom - I was lovin' your easy instructions until I got to this: "The paths for the file are shown in the notification message at the top. You can move the location of this file through FTP with a client such as Filezilla. After you move the htacess.txt file, rename it to .htaccess." To you, this is probably a snap; to me, I'm wondering how to "move...through FTP with a client such as Filezilla." Any chance you could step-by-step that, clarify it in some way for us web-challenged folks? Thanks! Tom – I was lovin’ your easy instructions until I got to this: “The paths for the file are shown in the notification message at the top. You can move the location of this file through FTP with a client such as Filezilla. After you move the htacess.txt file, rename it to .htaccess.”

To you, this is probably a snap; to me, I’m wondering how to “move…through FTP with a client such as Filezilla.”

Any chance you could step-by-step that, clarify it in some way for us web-challenged folks?

Thanks!

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