Okay, I'm putting down notes of what I did to get MB 4.4 installed atleast to the login screen.
1. Email
support@hostnine.com to get your license and download the MB 4.4 Zend version.
2. Download Winrar and Filezilla. (I used Winrar because expanding with File Manager wasn't working but I figured out step 7 only after using winrar.)
3. Go to CPanel and click MySql and create a database. I called it modernbillDB with login 'username'. It will automatically put username_modernDB as the database name and username_username as login.
4. Fire up winrar and expand the .tar.gz file in a separate folder in your home or office computer.
5. Fire up Filezilla. Under the pulldown menu Transfer set it to Binary. Transfer the folder modernbill to public_html folder by dragging and dropping. Wait for 10-15 mins for all the files to be transfered.
6. Edit the file .htaccess in the modernbill directory. Add
php_value "magic_quotes_runtime" "0"
php_value "magic_quotes_sybase" "0"
php_value "memory_limit" "32M"
php_value "open_basedir" "no value"
php_value "register_argc_argv" "1"
php_value "register_long_arrays" "1"
php_value "short_open_tag" "1"
php_value "safe_mode" "0"
to just below the 3 php_values supplied. Just cut and paste it.
7. Edit the modernbill/include/config/config.locale.php file using
$locale_db_host = 'localhost';
$locale_db_name = 'username_modernbillDB';
$locale_db_login = 'username_username';
$locale_db_pass = 'whatever you set the password to be without the username';
$standard_url = 'www.yourdomain.com/modernbill/';
without the public_html
$secure_url = 'www.yourdomain.com/modernbill/';
if you didn't purchase a SSL certificate
8. Fire up your browser and point it to
http://www.yourdomain.com/modernbill/install_v4
9. That should aleast get you to the installation screen. Ignore the red Zend, open_basedir, and another red item (can't remember).
10. That should be enough to get you to the log-in screen. Remember to use mb'username' to log in instead of your email for administator.