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Hi I installed cmsmadesimple-1.0.5 through FTP not ssh on a linux to my public_html  and every thing uploaded great but I can only get it to show up in my browser if I type the file its all in, I have standard html content on my site and that shows up fine,the index.php file is still in the cmsmadesimple-1.0.5 folder, do I need to put this in place of index.html, there is an upper level to public_html were my cpanel and other stuff is, does the whole thing need to be in there. any help would be great

Thanks
Dave

I didn't quite follow your description, so I'll do my best to help by giving the steps needed.

1. Location of your CMS MS site:

Decide if you want your CMS to manage content at the root of your website. For example, do you want your CMS at http://yourwebsite.com? 

Or, do you want your CMS to manage content inside a specific Directory on your webserver. For example, http://yourwebsite.com/myCMSDirectory/?

2. Upload the contents of the cmsmadesimple-1.0.5 folder -everything inside it - to your intended location.
It sounds like you've uploaded the entire CMS installation folder to to your public_html.  This would be why you have to type /cmsmadesimple-1.0.5/ to see your CMS MS site.  To fix this, you could simply rename the cmsmadesimple-1.0.5 directory on the web server if you want your cms ms site located in a specific directory and not at the root url.


Maybe this will help to answer your questions...

BTW, webservers generally look for a file called index.html before index.php.  Do not replace your index.php inside the CMS MS directory with an index.html. It will break your CMS.

Sometimes servers have a configuration to show index.html files to the first and if not exists index.php files.

Please try to delete index.html ...