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PatrickW
Starting installation question

  • 2003/8/29 6:54

  • PatrickW

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Hello,

I am new to XOOPS and I want to use it on my website. When I read the installation file it says:

"If your running in a hosted environment, unpack the XOOPS 2 files locally or on the server if you have telnet or SSH access. Once you done this, make sure to move or copy all XOOPS 2 files from the HTML directory to your root web directory (your provider usually provides this location with directions)"

I cannot copy anything to the very root web directory. Or in this case the installation guide means the directory "httpdocs" ?

Any help would be great.

Patrick
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mvandam
Re: Starting installation question

  • 2003/8/29 7:18

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Yeah, it just means the root directory "that you have access to". Actually it is just whatever web directory you want to put XOOPS in. Often this is the 'highest level directory' you have access to, but it can also be in a subdirectory 'xoops' or something, in case you have many scripts installed.
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PatrickW
Re: Starting installation question

  • 2003/8/29 7:32

  • PatrickW

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@mvandam

Thnx! Now I am giving it a go. Might it be the best to create a dir XOOPS and in that put the dir xoops-2.0.3 (after unpacking the zipfile) ? Or rename the xoops-2.0.3 dir on my hd to XOOPS and upload that? Just want to have the best possible setup and what better way then asking a expert.

Patrick
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mvandam
Re: Starting installation question

  • 2003/10/16 21:12

  • mvandam

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My preferred way is to put the files on my server in the directory e.g. xoops-2.0.3. Then I will make a symbolic link 'xoops' that points to xoops-2.0.3.

You don't want to put things too deeply, or your website address becomes ugly...

http://somewhere.net/xoops/xoops-2.0.3/

(unless you are able to use e.g. apache mod_rewrite to clean things up).

Just my thoughts...
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PatrickW
Re: Starting installation question

  • 2003/10/17 19:50

  • PatrickW

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@mvandam

I have it in the root. And it runs fine. XOOPS is really a must have package.

Patrick

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