ModernBill installation notes

[quneur]

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.

[FoxRocks]

session.use_only_cookies is the other "red item"

By the way, the instructions worked perfectly...thank you very very much for the help. Although I'm wondering what to do with that file I have opened on my desktop?

Cheers

~FOX~

[McCarthySites]

Setting BINARY mode is very important as most ftp apps will say '.php, its ascii' but its not.

Brian

[kobra]

You can transfer(FTP) the compressed package to the dir on the server and then in cPanel/filemanager extract the contents.

This is much faster and avoids the large binary FTP session

[colt45]

Originally Posted by kobra

in cPanel/filemanager extract the contents.

Thanks for the tip, kobra! I didn't realize the filemanager had that capability until you mentioned it here.

[kobra]

colt45,

Not a problem!!! Wasn't it fast?

You were not even the OP

[colt45]

Originally Posted by kobra

colt45, Not a problem!!! Wasn't it fast? You were not even the OP

Actually, I had already installed MB4.4 by untarring the package file using SSH access.

It's just good to know that it can be done using the file manager because I use it frequently for installing other things like Gallery2. It's almost impossible to FTP all the individual files in the G2 full package without getting a FTP failure plus it takes forever.

Thanks again!

[quneur]

I tried it Kobra's way several times and kept getting errors but that was due to putting wrong info in the local.php file. I finally broke down and transferred it all manually then fiddled with the info which this time was correct! I wasn't going to touch it since I already had it working.

[lauren4521]

Originally Posted by kobra

You can transfer(FTP) the compressed package to the dir on the server and then in cPanel/filemanager extract the contents.

This is much faster and avoids the large binary FTP session

Wow...what a huge tip. Thanks Kobra!
Lauren

[kobra]

Lauren,

You are welcome and this also works for other scripts like forums, wordpress etc etc...

As far as I have attempted the .tar.gz and .zip all work I do not think that .rar does though