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How to access Softaculous Auto Installer?

In order to access Softaculous Auto Installer you need to login to DirectAdmin control panel and you should find the link in DirectAdmin server control panel called Softacolous Installer. Remember you can install over 138 applications with this powerful Softaculous Auto Installer.

Gallery Installation and Configuration

The Photo Gallery comes bundled with ExpressionEngine and ready to be installed. In your Control Panel, click the Modules tab. On the right side of the table, click the Install link corresponding to the Photo Gallery Module. This will install the necessary components for the gallery.

When you access your Photo Gallery control panel for the first time (via the Modules page) you will be prompted to configure your gallery preferences with the following three steps:

Step 1: Create a Folder for your Images

Using your FTP program, create a folder on your server for your images. A good location is within your main “images” folder, but feel free to put it wherever you want. Once you have created the folder you must set its file permissions to 777 so that the Photo Gallery program will be allowed to put images into it.

Note: You will need to determine the full server path to your new image folder so that it can be saved in your gallery preferences. If you are not sure how to determine the full server path please contact your hosting provider and ask them.

Step 2: Choose a Name for your Templates

During configuration, the Photo Gallery script will add a set of default templates. You’ll be asked to choose a name for your templates
Step 3: Configure your Preferences

Although the Photo Gallery supports dozens of preferences you only need to initially update the following six items:

1. Photo Gallery Name Choose a name for your gallery.
2. Photo Gallery Short Name Choose a single word (no spaces). This “short name” is used to reference your gallery in the various ExpressionEngine Tags in your gallery templates.
3. Photo Gallery URL The full URL to your gallery.
4. Image Folder Name The name of the folder you uploaded in step 1.
5. Server Path to Image Folder The full server path to the folder, as indicated in step 1.
6. URL to Image Folder The URL to your image folder, in this format: http://www.example.com/image_folder_name/

Once you have updated the above items, click the submit button at the bottom of the page.
Step 4: Add Categories

Before you can add photos to your gallery you must create at least one category so your photos can be assigned to it.

Click the Categories tab at the top of the gallery module to add a new category. Repeat this process for each category you would like to create.

What is Gallery?

Gallery is an open source project with the goal to develop and support leading photo sharing web application solutions.

The Gallery project develops open source software licensed under the GPL, and is maintained and developed by a community of users and developers. The development is a distributed effort, with collaboration from around the globe. The team is well organized, with weekly meetings, and constant communication. Serving millions worldwide, the Gallery project is the most widely used system of its kind. Gallery is free to download and use.

How to upgrade my PHPList site?

1. If you’re using phpMyAdmin you can follow these steps to make a full backup of your database:
2. Copy your old configured files to a safe place.
* These files are:
– lists/config/config.php
– lists/texts/english.inc, or any other language.inc file if you have customized these
– lists/.htaccess, if you have customized it and want to keep it for reference.
– any plugins you may have been using
If you want to be on the safe side, we recommend you download the contents of the phpList directory from your web server to your hard disk. Should things go wrong, you can simply restore these files to the server.
3. Now you can delete your old phpList installation and replace it with the new version
* Download the latest phpList release marked as stable from the phpList website
* The file is a either a .zip or .tar.gz archive, which means you need to unpack it with a program like Winzip, 7zip or Winrar. Make sure you let it re-create (sub)directories.
* Delete all from your online phpList folder (make sure you stored your config.php file, and your customized english.inc or language.inc files).
* Upload the contents of the phpList directory (i.e. the “lists” directory) to your online phpList folder.
4. Then adapt your config.php file. You could overwrite the config file with the config file you stored earlier, but it is strongly recommended to use the new config.php file and re-adapt it to your situation by using the settings specified in your old config file, because new features may have have been added.
5. Finally point your browser to your phpList admin directory and login. You’ll be notified that your database is out of date (i.e.: “Your database is out of date, please make sure to upgrade”). Just click on the upgrade link in the System Functions block.
6. When you made sure you have a database backup, click the link in the next page to start the upgrade process of your database tables.

Your phpList is now upgraded.

How to reset my PHPList administrator password?

In case you have forgotten your password, go to the administrative login screen and you will see a field named “Forgot Password?: Enter your email:”. There you will have to enter the email address associated with the administrative username and an email with the password will be sent to that address.

In case you do not remember the email either, you can change the password manually from the MySQL database. The easiest way to achieve this is to use the phpMyAdmin tool. Go to your cPanel and click on phpMyAdmin.

Then select the database used by the phpList from the drop-down on the left side, click on the table named “phplist_admin” then click “Browse“. You will see a line with different fields with information regarding the administrative account, click on the pencil icon and you will be able to edit the field which contains the password. This way the administrative password can be reset or changed.

phpList requirements

phplist is developed and tested with the following server software:
* GNU/Linux
* Apache web server
* MySQL database server version 4.0 or higher
* PHP versions 4.3.x or higher (IMAP module required for bounce processing)

phplist also runs on PHP 5, MySQL 4.1 & 5.

The developers use the following setup:

* A recent release of any Linux distribution
* Mysql 5.0.27
* PHP 5.2

phplist also runs on windows, with Apache, PHP and MySQL.

What is phpList?

phplist is an open-source mailing list manager. It is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database for storing information.
The software runs on a web server and allows web site administrators to set up a web based newsletter subscription system where users can subscribe to the desired mailing lists.

It allows email messages to be sent out to a large number of subscribers and also allows email message templates to be set up (e.g. for a consistent look and feel). It also allows the email messages being sent out to be personalised with attributes that are unique to each subscriber.

How to run the MediaWiki update script through a browser?

MediaWiki installs itself using an interactive, web-based installation script. Before you can run this script, you need to do a couple of things. First, ensure that you have installed prerequisites (Apache/IIS, MySQL4 or later and PHP5). Then you must acquire the MediaWiki software package and upload the MediaWiki software to your server. You may also have to create a new database for your wiki. If necessary, create an account on your web server by following the instructions at Manual:Installation/Creating system accounts.

MediaWiki can be difficult to install for the average computer user who does not have experience with Apache, PHP and MySQL. Most users who wish to use wiki software may benefit from using a free wiki host (see a list of wiki hosts on Wikibooks) or via a software appliance.

MediaWiki needs to be able to write to the MediaWiki-folder/config directory when it runs its installation script. If you haven’t done so already, you need to change the permission settings for the config subdirectory so that it is writable by the webserver. If you are using FileZilla, right-click on the config directory, select “attributes…”, and check “Write” under “Owner”. If it prompts you for a number instead or if you are using a command-line interface, use 755 (Use 777 on Linux except for RedHat Linux). Alternately, you may be able to change permissions using a “control panel” provided by your web host.

Depending on the server configuration, in some cases you have to check all boxes (777) in FileZilla, to be able to run the install-script of MediaWiki.

On Unix or Linux, if you have admin rights, you can run the command chmod 755 config in your wiki directory.

How to install MediaWiki?

To install MediaWiki in Host1Free.com free web hosting follow these steps:
1. Login to DirectAdmin server control panel.
2. Locate Softaculous application installer.
3. Select MediaWiki from application list.
4. Follow application installer steps to finalize the installation.

Alternatively you can follow this instruction:
1. Download MediaWiki and extract the archive to a web-accessible folder on your server.
2. Point your browser to the config directory (e.g., http://localhost/mediawiki/config/index.php).
3 Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the process.