blogger.com Settings with cPanel Website Hosting
My website is hosted on a server which uses cPanel as its website management tool and has a pretty default file system structure. A few gotchas I found while setting up this blog to work with my cPanel managed remotely hosted site might be helpful to go over.
Publishing Tab:
FTP Path — Because cPanel’s default FTP home location is one directory too high put the value should be public_html/
Blog Filename — Even though this is not required you better put a filename here if you want your blog to work. Mine is obvious just look at the address bar above.
Archiving Tab:
Archive Path — Same as FTP path this must have public_html/ If you have placed your archives in a sub folder such as /archive/ then this value would be public_html/archive/
Archive Filename — blogger.com prepends the date (adds it to the beginning) of this value so if you don’t put anything her you will just get something like 2004_12_02_ as your filename which nicely displays all of the html code when you click on it. So put something like archive.html here and all of your archive pages will work.
Site Feed:
Site Feed Server Path — Same as both above this must be public_html/
Site Feed Filename — Just has to be something with an .xml extention so I choose the default atom.xml
That’s what I used to get this up and running and things seem to work pretty well. Again, this is my setup and yours will probably be very different depending on your setup but if you find that all your blogs are ending up a directory higher than you thought or if you can’t find your blogs when they are published and you find them up one directory from your web root give this a try or put whatever your main html directory is instead of public_html/
