Content

• Intro
• Download
• Database set-up;
• Upload to your server;
• Running installation module;

Intro

This manual is created to help you with installing, configuring and running your site, powered by dotSilver Dating Partner script or dotSilver Adult Partner script (further collectively referred to as dotSilver Partner). By the time you read this manual you should have already registered an account at http://www.dotsilver.com/ and registered a site that will be a member of one of dotSilver networks. Also you should remember the partner site number (site ID) that was assigned to your site after registration (read http://www.dotsilver.com/kbase/startup.html to learn how to perform this).

Please note that this document is subject to change. You can follow the updates here.

Script installation and configuration

The whole script installation process can be divided into the following steps:

• Appropriate dotSilver Partner script download;
• Database set-up;
• Script upload to your server;
• Running installation module.

Let’s take a look at all these steps in details.

Download

You can download the script at http://www.dotsilver.com/software/. Remember that you must sign in as a partner first. Please be accurate to download appropriate script version – for either traditional or adult network. Script won’t work with the wrong network.

Setting up the database

Now create a database and a database user on your server. Grant permissions for using the database to this user. Remember database name and user name – you will use them during installation.

You can do it in 3 ways: via your hosting account CPanel (faster and easier way), via phpMyAdmin (optional, if you have sufficient permissions for doing it in phpMyAdmin) or via SSH (optional, if you do not have CPanel on your hosting account; you need to have shell access enabled for the account). If you are not sure about whether you have CPanel or access to phpMyAdmin or SSH access, just contact your hosting providers and ask them – they should provide at least one of those. The most simple and fast way is to do this via CPanel, so if you are not experienced in scripts installation, please choose this method. CPanel is your hosting account control panel. It may be called differently, but essentially it is the same thing – web host control panel.

Method #1 - CPanel

• go to MySQL database management section;
• add a database (this will create a new database), and give it any name you wish;
• add a user (this will create a new database user), and also give it any name you wish;
• add the user to the database and give it ‘All’ privileges.

For all abovementioned steps CPanel provides a user-friendly interface.

Method #2 - phpMyAdmin

• open phpMyAdmin main control page;
• enter a database name in the “Create new database” field, press the “Create” button;
• enter the newly created database and go to the “SQL” section;
• in the query text field run this query:

  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO database_username@localhost
  IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
  

  Do not forget to specify actual database name, username, and password instead of database_name, database_username, and password respectively.

• enter the “SQL” section again;
• run this query:

  FLUSH PRIVELEGES;
  

Method #3 - SSH

• connect to your server via SSH;
• run the following command to enter MySQL environment:

  mysql –u username –p
  

  username must have all privileges to create databases and grant permissions to database users.

• run the following command to create a database:

  CREATE DATABASE database_name;
  

• run the following command to grant privileges to a user:

  GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name.* TO database_username@localhost
  IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;
  

  Do not forget to specify actual database name, username, and password instead of database_name, database_username, and password respectively.

• run the following command to apply the newly-created privileges:

  FLUSH PRIVELEGES;
  

Upload to your server

After necessary configuration is done you should upload the script to the destination directory at your server. You can do it via an FTP client program. To learn more about FTP, please search for “ftp” in Google.

Running installation module

Now you are ready to run the installation module that will help you with implementation of all necessary settings in an easy and fast way. Just point your browser to your new site and it will guide you through the process of installation and letting configure your site later.

If you have never run it before, you will see a form with empty fields including the admin login and password fields. You should carefully complete this form. It is very important that you do it correctly. All fields have detailed explanations in the form itself. When you save the form, an admin account is created and next time you try to run the “configs.php” module you will be asked for admin login and password.

As you can see, the admin account is created when you first run the configuration module. So we strongly recommend that you run it right after the script is uploaded to your server.