Thanks again Sean! Everything works fine on my local machine. I am having trouble putting the website live. When I uploaded the folder onto my server I got this message:

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Warning: Unknown: open(C:\inetpub\conf\temp\sess_ouf8ighfhbkk8evk278lrphjn7, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0

Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (C:\inetpub\conf\temp) in Unknown on line 0

How can I put my website live onto my host?

Many thanks again

Thanks! I have emailed my host! hopefully it'll work. Will post how I get on tomorrow!
Many thanks

From the looks of it, C:\inetpub\conf\temp is a system temp folder, not a folder contained within the website code.

Ask your host for PHP write permission to C:\inetpub\conf\temp

Hi again,

My host got back to me today:
Unfortunately, as you are on a shared server we would not be able to permit this.

Parent paths are disabled by default on Easily Windows servers.
This means that if you attempt to use code such as
MyPath = Server.MapPath("../includes/myfile.inc")
or

...you will get an error:
Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0131'

Disallowed Parent Path
The Include file 'filename' cannot contain '..' to indicate the parent directory.
You need to either specify the full path to the file (E:\Inetpub\ntXXXX\website\\), or specify the virtual path relative to the root 'website' folder (//), e.g.
MyPath = Server.MapPath("/includes/myfile.inc")

I'm not sure what that means?

I also tried the second choice in your previous post. I created a folder called 'silverstripe-cache' (with user group write permissions) and pasted the following code in mysite/_config.php:
session_save_path(getTempFolder());
ini_set('upload_tmp_dir', getTempFolder());

I get loads of new errors like this:
Warning: fopen(E:\Inetpub\win8228\website\ss24test/silverstripe-cache/manifestClassParse-AssetAdmin_php-e3d4c6e28b45b73d7132a471886faba3) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in E:\Inetpub\win8228\website\ss24test\sapphire\core\ManifestBuilder.php on line 466

Warning: fopen(E:\Inetpub\win8228\website\ss24test/silverstripe-cache/manifestClassParse-AssetTableField_php-58c8b36fbef52cb4fd34d1043b82964a) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in E:\Inetpub\win8228\website\ss24test\sapphire\core\ManifestBuilder.php on line 466

What should I do?