SkaDate 9 Installation Guide for Beginners

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Skadate 9 Installation Guide for Beginners

1. Login to your server via FTP (you can use Filezilla or WinSCP clients to access your server via FTP) 2. Go to public_html directory (this is the root directory of your hosting account;
the name of this directory may vary from hosting to hosting if you can't find

public_html, look for httpdocs) Upload a phpinfo file. This file will help you check if your actual server settings 3.
meet all of our system requirements 4. Open your site from this URL: www.mysite.com/phpinfo.php Check the parameters listed below. The CTRL+F key combination will ease the navigation when looking for each of the items: PHP version must not be lower than 5.2.4 Mysql version must not be lower than 5.0

Server API must be Apache Server or CGI GD library must have Free type support (make sure that Free type support value is cURL dom json Register_globals (must be off) safe_mode (must be off) Suexec, suhosin, suphp, suapache modules must be disabled Also, your server must have a Mail server (SendMail, Exim or other) and Cron

enabled for this directive) Find the following sections (all of them are required for proper software performance):

If all the parameters comply with our server requirements, go to a Client Area at http://www.skalfa.com/ca/ Find Downloads > SkaDate Version 8 > Builds section. Download the latest software package. Upload it via FTP to the public_html/ directory.

5.

Note: If your server comes with Parallels Plesk Panel, the software should be installed to the httpdocs/ directory through the following path /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs Note: If you do not have access via FTP, the software package can be uploaded via your hosting account Control Panel. Login to Cpanel, go to the File manager section. Open the Upload tab. Upload the package. 6. Now we should unpack the software archive. It can be unpacked via Cpanel or via SSH. Go to Cpanel/File manager. 7.
Highlight the package name (ex: skadate 8-5-2243.tar.gz) by clicking on it. Click the Extract button (the button name may vary; in some Control Panels you may find the button named as Unpack) 8.

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9. The system will ask you to indicate path the software archive will be extracted to.

If the path is correct, click the Extract file(s) button. 9.1 Parallels Plesk Panel usually has a File manager, though it does not support an Unpack function.
If there is no File manager on your hosting account Control Panel, you will need to unpack the software archive via SSH. Check if SSH is enabled for your server account, and you have SSH access details. If not, contact your hosting provider for enabling SSH on your hosting account. Login to your server via SSH Go to the directory containing the software using the following command: cd public_html (cd space public_html) Run the following command to see the directory content

ls -l (ls space - l) Run the command given below to extract the archive tar -xzf skadate-8.0.2235.tar.gz (tar space -xzf space archive name) Run ls -l command to check if the package has been unpacked.

The appearing list of unpacked software files and folders means the archive has been extracted correctly.

Database creation. 1. Go to Cpanel/Mysql databases section

2. Create the database

3. Click Go back

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4. Create a User
Use only letters and digits for the password. Do not use special characters, such as /*?%$@

Do not use Password generator

5. Click Go back

6. Add the newly created user to the database.

Give all Priviledges to the user.

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In some control panels a user is added to a database automatically, meaning there is no

Add user to database function. 7. Open

www.mysite.com/install

Click Next 8. Enter the database name, username, password. Click Next 9. The following message will appear: Set 644 permissions for $config.php file.

If you have not been directed to the new site Index page automatically, remove install from the site URL. Ok, we are almost done here! 10. Login to the server via FTP 11. You should set 777 permissions recursively for $external_c, $internal_c,

$userfiles directories. $userfiles directories.

Right-click the directory. Select File permissions, tick off the Recurse into subdirectories option, and set 777 permissions for $external_c, $internal_c,

Cron Jobs set up.

Cron Jobs can be configured via Cpanel .

1. Go to Cpanel/Cron Jobs section This section can be named as Scheduled Tasks in some control panels. 2. Enter * into each of the following sections: Minute, Hour, Day, Month, Weekday
3. Enter the command below: /usr/bin/php -f /home/account name/public_html/cron/index.php 4. Copy the account name from Current Email: section and add it to the Cron command instead of account name. For example, /usr/bin/php -f /home/befunbe/public_html/cron/index.php

5. Click the Add new Cron Job button. 6. Enter the command for heavy php cron. 7. Enter */30 into the Minute section. 8. Enter * into Hour, Day, Month, Weekday sections 9. The command should look as shown below: /usr/bin/php -f /home/account name/public_html/cron/heavy.php 10. Click the Add new Cron Job button. 11. The Cron Jobs should look as shown below:

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On some servers the commands will look the following way: /usr/local/bin/php -f /home/account name/public_html/cron/index.php /usr/local/bin/php -f /home/account name/public_html/cron/heavy.php 12. To check if the Cron Jobs have been configured correctly, register a test profile on

your site.

Login to the site Admin area at www.mysite.com/admin Username: admin Password: admin 13. Send Mass mailing via Admin area/Mass mailing section.

Select the Send to external email option

If the message arrives in 30 minutes (cron.heavy.php, which is responsible for massmailing, runs once in 30 minutes), Cron functions correctly.
Your site has been installed. You can start setting up your site using Admin panel manual

available at: http://www.skalfa.com/ca/docs/