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Program
Configuration
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Overview |
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This is the most important
configuration part for the program to start working properly. These
settings must be done the first step after installing the program and
before doing anything else.
Please be very careful specially when
changing the cgi directory and URL, if not correct you will not be able to
access the program again unless you restore the original configuration or
edit the configuration file manually.
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Site
Name |
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The name of your site that will
appear in many locations on the program pages as well as the email
messages sent to the users. This is used in the class <!--CLASS::Site_Name-->
which you can use anywhere in your templates and language files to replace
your site name.
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CGI
Directory |
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This is the path to the cgi-bin
directory where the software is installed. If your cgi-bin directory is
"/usrxx/home/cgi-bin", and you installed the program under
directory called "search" off the cgi-bin directory, then the
complete CGI directory should be "/usrxx/home/cgi-bin/search".
Please note that no trailing slash in the directory. If you can telnet to
your server, just type the command PWD and it will print your current
working directory. The program will try to display your current cgi
directory to help you.
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CGI
Directory URL |
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This is the browser URL to the
cgi-bin directory where the program is installed. If you installed the
program under directory "/cgi-bin/search", then the CGI
directory URL should be http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/search.
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HTML
Directory |
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This is the path to the html or
doc (or the none CGI) directory where the software is installed. If your
html directory is "/usrxx/home/htdoc", and you installed the
program under directory called "search" off the htdoc directory,
then the complete html directory should be "/usrxx/home/htdoc/search".
Please note that no trailing slash in the directory. The program will try
to show your document directory which is your root directory to help you
determine your full html directory.
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HTML
Directory URL |
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This is the browser URL to the
html directory where the program is installed. If you installed the
program under directory "/usrxx/home/htdoc/auction", then the
html directory URL should be http://www.yourdomain.com/auction.
This is assuming your document root is /usrxx/home/htdoc.
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Use
Secure Server |
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Set this option to
"YES" if you have a secure server and want to the program to
access the secure server for the Account Manager. If you do
not have a secure server space on your server then leave this to
"NO" and the program will use the normal http for the Account
Manager. SSL connections is required for direct credit card processing.
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Secure
Server URL |
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If you turned on the
"Use Secure Server" option and have a secure space on your
server then you need to specify the full https URL to access the
program "search.cgi" on the secure server. Note that even the
https will access the program "search.cgi", the program itself
should be able to access the same cgi-bin and database files on the same
server. This means that the same files on the normal http server
should also be accessible to the secure server and this only will be if
both http and https server are on the same machine. Simply
the same cgi-bin directory should be shared between the http and https
calls. below on example on how your web site should be structured for
using the SSL:
your cgi directory is: /usr/www/userxxx/cgi-bin
your http directory is :/usr/www/usrxxx/httpdocs
your https directory is :/usr/www/usrxxx/httpsdocs
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Secure
Server Images URL |
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This is the URL to the images directory on your secure
server. You should copy the images directory to your secure server. Please
do not link to images on your non secure server in your account manager
pages or any pages that use secure server. If you do users will get a
warning messages each time they browse these pages that it has non secure
data which is boring and confusing.
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Program Configuration
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What's
This? |
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Figure (1) Program
Configuration.
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Select
mail program and platform |
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Select what mail program
installed on your server to and available for you to use. This depends on
your server operating system.
For Unix Systems:
You can use Sendmail or SMTP. If you have
SMTP then it is recommended as it is faster than using Sendmail.
For Windows System:
You have to use SMTP server for your mail.
Some servers has a version of Sendmail for windows, if this is available
then you can use it also.
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Location
of mail program(or SMTP server address) |
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Depending on your choice to use
a mail program or an SMTP mail server you need to specify the path to the
mail program you are going to use or the IP address or the host name for
the SMTP server. This table help you in this choice.
Sendmail
For Unix systems only and you need the
location and name of the mail program installed on your server, it is
normally looks like one of the following:
/usr/bin/sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
/usr/local/bin/sendmail
On Unix systems, if you have a Telent connection to your server, it is
easy to determine where is the location of Sendmail as using one of the
following commands:
which sendmail
whereis sendmail
SMTP
You need the host name or the IP address
of your SMTP server. For example mail.yourdomain.com
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Email
System Status |
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This option turns on and off
all the outgoing emails. Normally you will turn it off only for debugging
and while system maintenance.
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SQL
Host |
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The software is SQL database
driven and requires a connection to SQL server. The first thing is you
need to have a connection to SQL server like MySQL, please see http://www.mysql.com
for more information. Normally if you have a mysql server installed on
your server then you can user your domain as your SQL host or just use
localhost. Please if you do not know ask your hosting provider on these
information.
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SQL
Database Name |
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After you are sure you have
valid connection to a SQL server like MySQL, you need to create a SQL
database. Normally if you are not hosting your site, just ask your
provider to create the database for you. If you want to create the
database yourself, first you must have a Telnet connection or similar on
windows, then at the prompt type this command:
mysql -u Your_User_Name
-pYour_Password
replace Your_User_Name with
your mysql user name and Your_Password with your mysql password, please
note there is no space between p and your password. This command will
start mysql and the mysql prompt will display like:
mysql>
at the mysql prompt enter the
create database command as follows:
mysql>create database
your_database_name;
Please your_database_name
with the database name you want to create and also note the semicolon that
ends the line.
to exit from mysql server
just enter the command quit or \q:
mysql>quit;
Now you have created the
database
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SQL
Database User name |
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This is your SQL database user
name. if you do not know it ask your hosting company.
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SQL
Database Password |
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This is your SQL database
password. if you do not know it ask your hosting company.
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SQL
Database Driver |
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Choose from the menu your SQL
driver, for example for mysql server choose mysql. Please check mysql.com
site for benchmark about the different SQL servers which shows that mysql
is the highest one and is very recommended.
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Admin
Help Screen Width |
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This option sets the width in
pixels for the admin help screen. This will allow the admin to customize
the help screens according to the screen mode or resolution.
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Admin
Help Screen Height |
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This option sets the height in
pixels for the admin help screen. This will allow the admin to customize
the help screens according to the screen mode or resolution.
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Webmaster
E-mail Address |
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This email address is used for
contact as site admin when a critical error display for the user or as
sender or reply to for some email massages sent out by the auction system
to the users.
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Billing
E-mail Address |
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This email address is used as
the replay to and From on the billing emails messages.
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Technical
Support E-mail Address |
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This email address is used for
user technical support from the Account Manager.
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Contact
Us E-mail Address |
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This email address is used for
user contact us form where the messages will be sent.
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Legal
Contact Email Address |
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This email address is used for
legal contact issues used on the copyright, privacy, and user agreement
pages.
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Admin
User ID |
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This is the username for the
admin program.
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Admin
Password |
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This is the Password for the
admin program.
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Time
Offset Based on GMT in Hours(-12.00 to +12.00) |
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Set your auction system time
zone. Set this to the time difference between the GMT time and your system
local time. You can use any vales positive or negative to adjust your time
zone. Actually you are not restricted to +12 and -12 values you can use
any values.
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