If you want to install Wordpress into a development area of your website, I would recommend simply installing Wordpress on a subdirectory of your domain, (i.e. http://yourdomain.com/wordpress/ ).

Once you have gotten Wordpress setup how you would like it, you can simply delete the contents of the root directory for your domain name, then move the contents of the 'wordpress' directory that you created to the root directory for the domain.  After moving the contents of the Wordpress directory to the root directory for your domain, you would need to adjust the Wordpress configuration (in the MySQL database) to use the new directory instead.  This can be easily done by following the steps at http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

Alternatively, instead of moving the contents of the 'wordpress' directory to the root directory of your domain name, you can simply redirect requests for your domain name to the 'wordpress' directory.  Here is a link to more information on how to redirect your domain name to the 'wordpress' directory: http://www.widexl.com/tutorials/mod_rewrite.html#redirect_domain_dir  .  The mod_rewrite settings would go into the ".htaccess" file on your account.

The root directory for your domain name (on the Linux hosting plans - Basic, Business, Starter, Reseller), /public_html would be the root directory for your primary domain.  The directory for your addon domains would be dependent on what you set when adding the domain name to your account (stored within the public_html directory, i.e. /public_html/addon).

You will want to either use the File Manager (that can be loaded up from within your control panel) or log into your account via FTP to create the folder.  Make sure you go into the public_html folder first, and then create the folder from there. 

This tutorial on the cPanel File Manager should come in handy too.  Hope that helps!

    Figured it out,    Thanks until the next newbie adventure which will be soon lol

You're uploading to the wrong directory. You upload themes to ../wp-content/themes/

I just used the theme uploader for the first time and it worked without a hitch.

My settings:

Dashboard->Settings->Miscellaneous
The path to your uploads file should just be Full URL Path to files is blank

There's something amiss in your WordPress installation. The directory you are having an error on is where the WordPress media loader puts uploads. The theme uploader unzips the file and puts it in the themes directory.

I never recommend using fantastico.

If found this information on the internet as I still cannot upload files to wordpress at the moment can anybody comment on this solutions for permissions,

"The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/wp/wp-content/uploads.

you want the ownership and permissions to look like this for these three important directories:

wp-content drwxr-xr-x (755)  user group
uploads drwxr-xr-x (755)  apache apache
themes drwxr-xr-x (755) user group

and PHP safe_mode is OFF


Before you read further, please note A) these instructions are for *nix servers (typically Linux), not Windows servers, so ask your host which you have if you don’t know, B) you’ll need to ssh into your server and run command line commands, and C) I have the very macho root access to my Linux/Apache server, so I can run chown commands. Most hosts will disallow you root access, and you’ll simply have to ask your tech support to do this. That shouldn’t be a problem."

Any comments or suggestions on this issue would be greatly appreciated.