GENERAL ADVICE FOR MOST EXTERNAL SCRIPTS:Check your requirements. Check with your host if necessary to be sure you have ALL the necessary components (PHP is the right version, image library GD, etc is installed, etc) BEFORE you start the installation. Sometimes you think you have all the pieces and take for granted, till you REALLY look at the requirements. Saves Headbanging
to know in advance that YOUR host or YOUR account does not offer
(fill in the blank).
Don't just drag contents of the zip file into another folder. This can sometimes mess up the order of the files.
Make sure you UNZIP then EXTRACT the contents of the zip to a folder on your hard drive.
This causes the folders and files to be put into the proper organization needed for the script.
Does your host require you to use a public website folder (often public, public_html, www, web, html, etc)?
If so, open that folder and continue. If you do not have to use that folder, then just go to your webspace.
Using FTP software, create a new SCRIPT FOLDER on your webspace. You put the folders and files for the script in this folder. Don't just throw the files from the script in with your CSB built pages. Give them a safe home on your webspace.
Call the
SCRIPT FOLDER coppermine, or gallery or whatever you need to match your script. Upload the folders and files AS IS into that
coppermine folder on your webspace. Don't rename or reorganize any of the files or folders that you place into that
coppermine folder.
They must remain in the original order or you will break the script!!! (I don't have the file listing...cpg14x may be a folder that is used by coppermine and it should be in the coppermine folder) This step just gets the script to your site.
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Gather information that the script will need so when you get to that part of the script you are ready...
Where are the things it will connect to? (your website, your folder that you stored the script in, name of database with user name/password, etc).
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MAKING A DATABASE.Many scripts will NOT make the database for you but some do. Read your instructions. If you need to make one, do it now. Coppermine does NOT make a database so you will need to make it and have it ready for the script to access it.
This depends on YOUR host. Your Settings, Your control panel options. Your host probably offers a tutorial or video or instruction for this. TCH offers cPANEL for our control panel and we have a simple interface to build our databases. Some hosts I have used did not have such a nice setup!!
TCH has a tutorial for coppermine here.
http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16047which includes a link to see a FLASH tutorial on how databases are made in cPanel.
(BTW, TCH tutorial puts all the folders/files into a folder called gallery. My instructions say coppermine. Same thing...Use either...your choice.)-------
You will need to set your ACCESS for certain folders. Take a look at your installation instructions. Coppermine says this:
Set permissions on the "albums" and "include" folders in your Coppermine directory. Usually, you have to apply the CHMOD command, setting the permissions to 755 (or 777, depending on your server config). This step is very important and must not be overlooked!
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INSTALLATION/CONFIGURATION:
And finally you are ready to start your INSTALLATION. Each script comes with an installation file, or control/admin panel that must be modified to point to YOUR installation of the script.
Less technical scripts may not self-install. They may give you instructions to put this here, that there and offer a settings or configuration document that must have manual change made by you in an HTML/PHP editor.
Some scripts have an installation file that walks you through step by step and checks your settings and progress. (SMF forum and PixelPost have this type install files). Coppermine has one at this location: h**p://your_domain.com/script_folder/install.php (Pointing to your website, the folder you made to hold the script and the installation file) Go to that page and follow the prompts...type in the information needed...
Good reference doc for coppermine:
http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htmit took over my domain
Pixelpost took over your domain? Confused by your statement. I uploaded to a folder called pixelpost on my website. Then went to the admin panel to configure and install and configure the script. But the rest of the site was not affected. Any visitor to Samisite.com last night would not have known I was working in the background in the pixelpost directory (that I have removed from samisite.com). So if Pixelpost took over your website, you probably put the script files in with your standard web pages.