

Set up the mail account on GoDaddy ( see their help for this) You’ll need a mail account with GoDaddy to set this up. This step I had to poke around to figure out…

Now navigate to your site and finish with the regular installation After the files uploaded, go into the “App_Data” folder of your installation (on your local drive) and then upload all files and folders into the “App_Data” of the web site.The App_Data folder should already be created (if not, then wait 5 minutes for Go Daddy’s system to create the directory for you – we did this in a previous step, but it can take a few minutes for the process to complete). Copy all files EXCEPT FOR THE App_Data to the host.If its a sub directory like “blog”, go into the blog directory, otherwise if you want it as your main site landing page, use the home area which will usually be (or whatever your domain is).Navigate to the folder in which you want to install the blog.Connect to your GoDaddy account with the FTP Client.Use your favorite FTP Client, I recommend FileZilla, to upload the files. You will need to remove one line of configuration in the web.config file. Give it a name of “App_Data” with permissions of “Read”, “Web”, “Write”īlogEngine.NET Configuration Setting Change.(If you’ve decided to put your blog in a sub-folder, then select that folder name now).The App_Data folder needs to have write access enabled so BlogEngine.NET can do its work. Set the settings of “Read”, “Web”, “Set Root” ( this sets up the directory as a virtual directory).Click “Create Directory” and call it whatever you want, e.g.Return to the ASP.NET Runtime area of the hosting account (Steps outlined above).If you want the blog to be your main URL such as then skip this step). Setting up The Blog in A Sub Folder (If you want to set up your blog on a sub directory like this: then you’ll want to do follow these steps. If not, select “Content Root” and then change it to 2.0.


