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Boardawy Requirments
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Boardawy Software System Requirements
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Overview |
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Please review the following requirements before your
start the installation. These are the requirements for the server that you
will install the program on it or the requirements of the virtual hosting
if you will be hosting your web site on a shared server (virtual
hosting) with some hosting company.
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Web Site |
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A Web Site, hosted either on Unix (Linux, FreeBSD,
Solaries, etc) or Windows Server.
If you will be using the program on the internet, then you will need a
computer that is connected to the internet. This is called a Server. You
may have your own dedicated server which could cost you, or host your
website with any hosting company on a shared server (called virtual
hosting). You will need also to register your domain name to point to your
web site or you can use your IP address until you register it. Of course
if you have the experiance you can install the software on your local
computer but you will need to install and run a web server like Apache or
IIS, install and run MySQL server and make it connect to your web server
and also you may need to install and run a mail server.
Please be sure to have your server or website FTP
address, user name, and password. These are required for connecting to
your server using any FTP programs like WS_FTP, Cuteftp, FTP Voyager. If
your server is Unix then you should also have login information using a
Telnet program. If your server is windows you may have some way to connect
to your server, for example using PC Anywhere. Most hosting companies
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MySQL Connection |
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A connection to MySQL server. The program is SQL
database driven. This means that all the program database is done using
SQL server. Everything the program uses is stored in a SQL database, this
includes categories and forums information, posts, accounts, users, keywords, mailings lists,
banners, stats, etc. MySQL is the most popular and robust database
engine and the best it is free so any one can use it.
If this is your own server, then make sure you have
installed MySQL server if not already installed. You can download MySQL
server from www.mysql.com.
If you are hosting your site with some hosting company,
or still looking for one, then make sure they support MySQL server and you
will have a database on it with your login to your database.
In all cases, please be sure to have these information
about your MySQL server:
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MySQL host name. This is normally localhost unless
it is not runing on the same web server.
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MySQL database name. This is your database name on
the MySQL server.
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MySQL database user name. This is the login
username to the MySQL database.
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MySQL database password. This is the login
password to the MySQL database.
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MySQL Database |
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As explained above, you will need a connection to MySQL
server and you will need to have a database created on this MySQL server.
If this is your dedicated or own server, then you should create this
database yourself. If you are hosting your website with any hosting
company, then if you have a control panel to admin your site, you may
search it for tools to create or manage MySQL databases. If you do not
have a control panel to admin your server or it does not have a tools for
creating MySQL databases, then you should contact your hosting company to
create a database for you and let them send you its information which is
the MySQL host, database name, database username, and database password. |
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SMTP or
Mail Program |
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SMTP mail server or any mail program like Sendmail installed. The
program sends out emails to the users in many situations. For example for
creating accounts, notifications, etc. Therefore you need a connection
to an SMTP mail server which is normally called the same as your domain
name like mail.yourdomain.com, or Sendmail program installed on your
server. If you do not know please ask your server admin or hosting
company. |
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5 MB Minimum
Disk Space |
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The software is open source code in Perl which requires
only about 5MB disk space. This space is required to install the program files
only. This does not include anything in the database. |
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Perl Modules |
The program uses some Perl modules which should by default exist on most
servers besides the standard Perl modules that comes with Perl itself,
please make sure your server has the following Perl modules installed. Most hosting companies install these modules by default unless they are lazy:
GD (version 2.0.2 and higher)
DBI
DBD::Mysql
Archive::Zip
You can download our
Server Test script from our site and install it on your server under
the cgi-bin directory or any executables directory and it will show your
server information and installed Perl modules.You can also download
of GD module
test to check if your server has the GD module installed and if it is
the right version. |
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