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Sounds like a resource url issue...see this post: http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4916.msg21441.html

Thanks for your replies, i checked out that forum and i did rebuild my urls using Deepak's address.

when i "force" my browser to finally navigate to the global settings part of the administer civicrm tab i try to click on resource urls but this is the error i get.
Warning: require_once(CRM/Core/Config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/p/i/s/pisigmachi/html/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.php on line 19

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'CRM/Core/Config.php' (include_path='.:W:\www\Joomla\administrator\components\com_civicrm\civicrm:W:\www\Joomla\administrator\components\com_civicrm\civicrm/packages:.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php') in /home/content/p/i/s/pisigmachi/html/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.php on line 19
the reason i say i "forced" my browser is because when i click on adminster civicrm it takes me to a page with the garbled, frameless text i mentioned in my original post. i then click on global settings and the page cannot load because it is being directed to: http://localhost/Joomla/administrator/index2.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/admin/setting&reset=1 so i changed the "localhost" to the correct path of "pisigmachi.com"

looking forward to any more suggestions or answers.

fyi, after taking a closer look at my backup-ed  database sql file i noticed hundreds of localhost references. could this be the root of the problem? should i try messing around with the sql file?

yeah, my civicrm.settings.php and civicrm.config.php is pointing to the right host.

and yes all my other "non-civicrm" links are working fine. is this common? is there anything else i can do?

is there anyway i can edit the resource urls say through a php file and not through the administer area. also did you determine if the references to "localhost" in my database was part of the problem?

Yes i have a backup before i installed civicrm. I cannot install civicrm directly on my godaddy shared hosting accnt. since i already have existing content on my site i backed up from godaddy and then installed it on my local uniform server (joomlapc). I had to enable InnoDB on my localhost since it was not already that way, then i installed civicrm successfully and backed it up.

Then i went into myphpadmin and dumped the database into a .sql file (because sometimes joomlapack backups fail when it is trying to restore the database). I then deleted my entire site and database on godaddy to eliminate any conflicts with restoring the new version.

After i restored it (and as i predicted joomlapack had a problem restoring the database) i logged into godaddy's myphpadmin and uploaded the .sql file i exported from my localhost previously. after that i downloaded the civicrm.settings.php and civicrm.config.php files and edited them (i would post them here but it would just expose my site's directory and database info and i don't want to do that).

Then i rebuilt my url's with the http://pisigmachi.com/administrator/index2.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/admin/setting/updateConfigBackend&reset=1 and it appeared to worked so i immediately used joomlapack to do a third backup. Once i finished i thought i would explore civicrm which is when i noticed that it didn't look right anymore and none of the links were working.


i don't understand the difference regarding your comment:

do you get the same error if you just go to civicrm dashboard? what about civicrm administration page?

Whats the difference? I thought the only way to access civicrm was through the admin page. I have been transferring this site back and forth for 4 days and i keep getting the same errors. either i'm doing the same thing wrong everytime, or civicrm has some problem with migration, or godaddy doesn't like civicrm.

I would grant you access to my ftp and database for a limited time if you wish to explore yourself. i feel like ive done everything correctly.

ok, sorry for the confusion. everytime i try to install on godaddy it times out.
i have even added a php5.ini and adjusted my .htaccess file so that the max execution time, etc are sufficient for civicrm installation but it still times out with a blank white screen.

that is why it wont install, but it does work fine on my localhost installation. I wish i can get civicrm installed on godaddy directly, but i have not heard of one successful instance of that.

if you have please let me know.

Which web host would you recommend?

excellent news I switched over to bluehost and the installation worked perfectly. Praise bluehost!
Emilyf, thank you for trying your best to help. I guess in the end it was all because of godaddy and not me!