cpLinks Installation Guide

Requirements

• Apache web server running on a Linux or Unix platform
• PHP version 4.x, or higher
• PHP must be configured with FTP capabilities (search for --enable-ftp in your phpinfo file )
• A MySQL database

Installing cpLinks

Please follow these simple instructions:

1. Unzip the distribution file to a directory on your local hard drive.
2. Create a new MySQL database on your webserver. You can use an existing database as all cpLinks tables are prefixed with mnl_ and can therefore co-exist with other tables in the same database.
3. Edit config.php and enter your database username, password and database name. Also enter your FTP username and login details, as indicated in the config.php file.
4. Using your favourite FTP client upload all files to a directory on your web server ensuring that the cpLinks directory structure remains intact.
5. Use your FTP client to CHMOD (change the file permissions) of index.html and global_config.php to 777. These files reside in the cpLinks root directory. This is very important as these files are written to by the cpLinks program.
6. Run install.php, which is located in your cpLinks root directory. This creates the cpLinks database tables.
7. When you have run install.php successfully delete this script as it could be used maliciously in the future.
8. You now can use the admin control panel (admin CP) which is located in the admin/ directory, relative to your cpLinks directory.
9. The default admin username is admin and the default password is password. Enter these and log into the admin CP.
10. Important: Change your admin password by selecting "Administrator Details" from the menu on the left hand side of the screen.

Congratulations, you have now installed cpLinks!