3 The following notes apply to alpha/beta releases. Some manual installation is
8 - Apache with mod-rewrite enabled and "Options All" so you can use a
10 - PHP > 5.1. The later the better. You'll need 5.3 for full openssl
12 - PHP *command line* access with register_argc_argv set to true in the
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18 reasonable price. If your hosting provider doesn't allow Unix shell access,
19 you might have trouble getting everything to work.]
21 2. Edit htconfig.php and change system settings. Rename to .htconfig.php
23 3. Import database.sql into your database with mysql command line or via phpmyadmin
25 4. Import updates.sql (if it exists) to catch any late-breaking devel changes
27 5. Put this directory into the root of your web server document area.
28 - To use a subdir of your main site, set the
29 config variable $a->path to the relative subdir
30 in .htconfig.php - for example to use http://example.com/test -
31 set $a->path to 'test'.
32 - Everything will work much better if you can dedicate a domain
33 or subdomain so that you don't require an extra server path.
35 6. Navigate to your site with a web browser and register an account.
37 7. Set up a cron task to run "php include/poller.php http://my.domain.name" once every 5-10 minutes.