Add FTP and copy-paste to installer

(Subscribe). FWIW, and for those who prefer to be aawwed and aaahd, rather then read through my blogs, I attached a screenshot of the FTP configuration.

More on FTP configuration can be found here: http://dev.joomla.org/content/view/2013/93/

What is this FTP filesystem anyway?
The previous version of Joomla, the 1.0.X series had issues with ownership of files on a server. It's a little bit technical, to give you an idea, its possible for files on an Apache web server to be owned by a user called "nobody". Go figure. Anyway, there would be conflicts with who owned files, whether it was the FTP account or Apache itself. This would lead to permission problems when Joomla would try to upload files.
The solution in 1.5 is for Joomla to actually use an FTP account for everything, and then there are no conflicts.
If that was all a little confusing to you, just create an FTP account for Joomla to use and enter the details in this screen.

The HTML got broken.... Moving this into two new issues:
http://drupal.org/node/110141 => Add FTP layer to installer
http://drupal.org/node/110143 => Add copy-pastable settings.php generation to installer when drupal cannot write it to disc.