Blogger 550 error

I should have gone to bed ages ago, but setting up a blog on Blogger.com for 9mmfilm was driving me nuts.
I set two blogs up for Seanoneillsongs.com without a hitch, but when it came to 9mmfilm I kept getting a 550 error (permission denied). I guess I should have gone to bed and dealt with it in the morning because the answer was staring me in the face...

I did a google on it and found it to be a common problem, but for a lot of people it was because they didn't enter the ftp path correctly, which I knew I had.
Then I came accross an article which said when they turned off archiving it worked fine. So I tried that and I discovered that it got me a step further in that files were created on my site, but I then got a 550 error for the atom.xml file.

And this is where my stupidity comes into play... I guessed straight away that the atom.xml file was being put somewhere I didn't have write access to being on a virtual server. But it took me hours to discover that under the Site Feed options you are supposed to enter the full path for creating the file.
I had assumed that Blogger derived all paths from the initial ftp path, but it doesn't.

So then I went through all the settings tabs and entered the paths for the archive and the xml file and bang, everything worked fine.


So goodnight!