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My question is about the paths used for the installation and post installation.  I'm following the install instructions from the wiki.  I failed trying the normal Joomla install so am following the secondary method. 

1) First question where it says "upload the extracted com_civicrm directory to ~/com_civicrm" do I assume correctly that by "~/" that is referring to the "root" of the website not the actual root of the server?

2) Whereas normally with Joomla you would have these files under websiteroot/components/com_civicrm and websiteroot/administrator/components/com_civicrm if my first assumption is correct and I follow this method this would then leave me with a large assortment of files under websiteroot/com_civicrm.  Perhaps this doesn't matter?  The reason I'm assuming it matters is because when I first tried the secondary install method I placed the /com_civicrm under /administrator/components/com_installer/component and I got an installation successful message when it was done.  Then when I tried to use it I got errors so again I assumed this was some sort of permissions issue with having those files located where they were...

OK I re-installed using the webroot as the install from for /com_civicrm

First question: Can I now remove all of those files from the install from folder?

I don't remember if this is the same error from the previous installation but after I get the successful install message, I then clicked on Components-CiviCRM-CiviCRM Home and it gave this error:

Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.
Please review the CiviCRM Installation Guide and try searching the CiviCRM Mailing List Archives for information on the error below.
Error Details:
[pear_error: message="Connection timed out" code=110 mode=callback callback=CRM_Core_Error::handle prefix="" info=""]