TinyPortal

Link to my site: http://woefeatherconclave.com/testboard
SMF version: SMF 1.15
TP version: TP 1.05
Theme name and version: n/a just using defaults
Mods installed: none as of yet
Related Error messages: A couple of errors here which I believe to be related to the chmod permissions of my server.  I will list the errors and stuff I know and perhaps you can help.
First: while in smartftp, my entire testboard file appears empty even though I know I didn't delete anything and there should be stuffs in there.  In fact when I first open smartftp I can see the files but then as it goes idle they disappear and won't reopen.
Second: I have set all chmods to 755 as 777 does not allow me to load or see anything in my browser.  I am getting a 404 error however on the  http://woefeatherconclave.com/testboard/tp_install.php
Third:  I have manually modded all the files according to the manual install and mod guidelines.  I am just getting stuck on the final step.

Should I attempt this? http://www.tinyportal.net/index.php?topic=24076.0  even though 777 files are not visible with my server?  Is there any mod to that link that I should know of? 

Thanks in advance for any and all help.

BTW: My real board is here http://woefeatherconclave.com/testboard  but I did decide to attempt this on the testboard clone first as advised.

Please mark this as solved.  Out of trial and error I used the manual_tp_install.php extension at the end of my site and that worked like a charm. thanks again for such a nice mod and for providing free help.

you can mark it solved by editing your first post and changing the message icon from the drop down menu.

Pleased you fixed it :)

Thanks, marked it now.  I am currently in the back everything up then transfer it over to the liveboard stage so that should go smoothly, will let you know soon.