Requirements of Linx BETA PHP 4.0+ MySQL 3.0+ FTP Access Some knowledge of HTML to customize your templates.

Templates ~ Configuration ~ Categorys and Advertising

Installation Instructions

1. Unzip the Linx.zip file you downloaded earlier to your PC.
2. Open up /admin/config.inc.php in a text editor and change the settings below as instructed.
   

   database_url = The Hostname of your MySQL server i.e. 'sql.yourdomain.com'
   database_name = The Database Name of your MySQL server i.e. 'mydatabasename'
   database_user = The Username of your MySQL server i.e. 'sqlusername'
   database_pass = The Username of your MySQL server i.e. 'sqlusername'

3. In /admin/config.inc.php change the Paths and URL's to point to your servers directorys.
   

   base_admin_path = The path to the directory that contains your admin files.
   base_templates_path = The path to your templates directory.
   base_build_path = The path to the directory where your linx pages will be built.
   base_build_url = The URL of the directory where your linx pages will be built.
   page_extension = The extension for built pages, normally 'index.html'.

4. Upload the directory /admin/ from your PC to your server in the directory you specified in step 3.
5. Call up create-tables.php in your browser, the URL will be something like http://www.your-domain.com/linx/admin/create-tables.php
6. create-tables.php will connect to your MySQL database and confirm there is no conflicts with tables names. Once done, it will create the tables for use with linx in your MySQL database or else report any errors encountered.
7. If step 6 reports that any tables already exist you will need to edit your /admin/config.inc.php file and change the names of the tables and re run the create-tables.php script in step 6
8. Open up /new-pages/add.php and /new-pages/search.php and edit the second line down in each file to point to the absolute path of config.inc.php on your webserver.
9. You can now upload /new-pages/ from your PC to your server in the directory you specified in step 3.
10. Now, call up your admin directory URL in your browser, it will be something like http://www.your-domain.com/linx/admin/
11. If you have installed everthing correctly you will see a message confirming the category has been added.
12. Click on Category > Add and fill in a test category name and description and click on 'Add Category'.
13. From the main menu click on Links > Add and fill out the form to add a sample link to your database.
14. You should see a message confirming the addition of the new link.
15. Go back to your Main Menu of Linx and click the Build All link
16. If you have installed everthing correctly you will see a message confirming the building of your sites new links pages.
17. Once you have reached this point, your installation of linx should be working correctly and you can now procede to customizing your templates and config.inc.php settings and also read more on Categorys and the Advertising System.