This phpbb3 installation Blog post include:

1. System Requirements of phpbb3 forums
2. How to install phpbb3 forums using Fantastico De Luxe?
3. How to install  phpbb3 forums manually?
4. How to backup phpbb3 forums?

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System Requirements:

A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP

A SQL database system, one of:

FireBird 2.0 or above

MySQL 3.23 or above

MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)

Oracle

PostgreSQL 7.x or above

SQLite 2

PHP 4.3.3 or above with support for the database you intend to use. The optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.

zlib Compression support

Remote FTP support

XML support

Imagemagick support

GD support

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How to Install PhpBB3 using Fantastico De Luxe?

Step 1: Login to your cPanel account http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel

Step 2: Click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon in your cpanel account.

Step 3: Under the “Discussion Board” section, Click on “PhpBB”.

Step 4: On the right panel, select “New Installation”

Step 5: Fill in your directory details. If you want to install it on your root directory (www.yoursite.com) leave it blank else insert the directory (eg: /phpbb or /phpbb or /forums/). Fill out other information and click “Install phpBB”.

Step 6: Phpbb3 would be successfully installed.

How to install phpbb3 manually?

with screenshots

Step 1. Download a stable version of phpbb3 from phpbb.com

Step 2: Extract all content and upload it to (public_html or www folder). If you’re installing phpBB3 on a sub directory, upload the script on a sub-directory (e.g. /forums or /phpBB3)

Step 3: Start the installation by going to url: http://www.yoursite.com/ or http://www.yoursite.com/forums (your sub-directory)

Step 4: Click on ‘Install‘.

Step 5: You’ll see a page as below. Please make sure you have the following details:

The Database Type – the database you will be using.
The Database server hostname or DSN – the address of the database server.
The Database server port – the port of the database server (most of the time this is not needed).
The Database name – the name of the database on the server.
The Database username and Database password – the login data to access the database.

After you have all the above data click ‘Proceed to next step’.

Step 6. A compatibility check would be done as shown in screenshots below. If everything seems fine, click ‘Start Install’.

Step 7. Fill in your details and click ‘Proceed to next step’. No need to fill DSN and Database server port.

Step 8. Database connection would be attempted and you would get a screen like below if confirmed. Click ‘Proceed to next step’.

Step 9. The, you have to fill your administrative account details.

Step 10. Administrator setting would be checked. Click ‘Proceed to next step’.

Step 11. The configuration file would be written and a confirmation like below would be seen. Click ‘Proceed to next step’.

Step12. In the next step you’ll get a chance to edit the default email setting and server settings along with a note as this “The settings on this page are only necessary to set if you know that you require something different from the default. If you are unsure, just proceed to the next page, as these settings can be altered from the Administration Control Panel later.” Edit the settings you want and click ‘Proceed to next step’. If you have ssl connection you would have to ‘Enable’ cookie Secure option. You can also keep the domain name as ‘www.domain.com’ or ‘domain.com’

Step 13. You’ll get a phpbb3 installation completion screen as below. Click ‘Proceed to next step’.

Step 14. Congratulations, your phpBB 3 is successfully installed. Click ‘login’ and enter your new forum.
Please follow the warning below:
Warning: Please delete, move or rename the install directory before you use your board. If this directory is still present, only the Administration Control Panel (ACP) will be accessible.

That’s it, you’re done.

Possible Phpbb3 installation errors:

Error #1: You might get a ‘table exists’ fatal error during the installation of phpbb3 script as show in the screenshot below.

Solution:

Go to your cpanel account. Click on ‘Sql database’. Click on ‘phpmyadmin’. Select your phpbb3 installation table and ‘empty’ the table. or select all the table starting from phpbb_  (as shown in screenshot below) and ‘Drop’ them. Please do it with caution.

How To Backup Your phpbb3 forum?

[a] To create a phpbb forum database backup:

Step 1. Go to your forum admin panel.

Step 2. Select ‘Maintenance’

Step 3. Select ‘Backup’ and choose the following option as per your needs.
Backup type: Choose ‘Full’
File type: GZIP
Action: Choose any option as per your needs.
Table select: Select all.
Click ‘Submit’.

OR

Step 1. Login to your cpanel account

Step 2. Click on ‘Mysql Database’. Then click on ‘PhpMyAdmin’

Step 3. Select your phpbb3/forum database

Step 4. Click ‘Export’

Step 5. Select ‘all tables’

Step 6. Check data and structure property.

Step 7. Check ‘Save As’ Option

Step 8. Click ‘Go’ and save the file on your computer.

[b] To create a backup of phpbb3 Files

Step 1. Take a timely backup of all the files in your phpbb3 forums root.

Step 2. Save them as per dates or maintain a log, So any edits made by you on the files, can be restored later.

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This Blog post include:

1. System Requirements of Wordpress
2. How to install wordpress using Fantastico De Luxe?
3. How to install wordpress manually?
4. How to install wordpress themes?
5. How to install wordpress plugins?
6. How to install wordpress widgets?
7. How to create blog posts, blog categoris and Tags in wordpress?
8. Top 10 Wordpress Plugins – Recommended Plugins
9. How to import Blog posts from other blog platform to your wordpress blog?
10. How to backup wordpress blog?
11. How to upgrade your wordpress blog – upgrade wordpress installation?

System Requirements for Wordpress

PHP version 4.3 or greater
MySQL version 4.0 or greater

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Wordpress Version: 2.7.x – Tutorial can be used for other versions.

How To Install Wordpress using Fantastico-De-Luxe?

Step 1: Login to your cPanel account http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel

Step 2: Click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon in your cpanel account.

Step 3: Under the “Blog” section, Click on “WordPress”.

Step 4: On the right panel, select “New Installation”

Step 5: Fill in your directory details. If you want to install it on your root directory (www.yoursite.com) leave it blank else insert the directory (eg: /joomla). Fill out other information and click “Install Joomla”.

Step 6: Joomla would be successfully installed.

How To Install Wordpress Manually?

with screenshots

Step 1: Download Wordpress  Stable version from wordpress.org.

Step 2: Extract all content and upload it to (public_html or www folder). If you’re installing Wordpress on a subdirectory, upload the script on a sub-directory (e.g. /wordpress)

Step 3:  Start the installation by going to url: http://www.yoursite.com/ or http://www.yoursite.com/wordpress (your sub-directory)

Step 4:  Click ‘Create a Configuration File’.

Step 5: You’ll see a page as below. Make sure you have all database information. Click ‘Let’s Go’.

Step 6: Fill in all database information.

Step 7: Fill in your Blog Title and  admin Email. Check on the options to be displayed in search engines etc

Step 8: You’ll get and admin password as shown below in screenshots.

Step 9: Click ‘Login’ and access your administrator area and modify your admin password.

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How To Install Themes in Wordpress?

Step 1. Download the theme you want.

Step 2. Extract all content and upload it in yoursite/wp-content/themes/ folder.

Step 3. Login to your wordpress admin panel at /wp-admin

Step 4. Click on Appearance > Themes

Step 5. Click on the theme option you want.

Step 6. A preview of Theme would be seen, Click ‘Activate Theme’

Step 7. Your theme is installed. You can go to your blog home page and check it.

How To Install Plugins in Wordpress?

Step 1.  Login to your wordpress admin panel at /wp-admin

Step 2. Click Plugins > Add New

Step 3. Search the plugin you want.

OR (The above method is short and quick)

Step 1. Download the plugin you want.

Step 2. Extract all content and upload it in yoursite/wp-content/plugins/ folder.

Step 3. Login to your wordpress admin panel at /wp-admin

Step 4. Activate the plugin

Step 5. If the plugin has a widget to be activated, Follow how to install widget below. If your theme don’t support widgets, you’ll have to input the code given with plugin in your template  folder as per your requirement. Usually themes are widget enabled.

How To Install widget in Wordpress?

Step 1. Login to administration panel /wp-admin

Step 2. Click Appearance > Widgets

Step 3. Click on the option where you want to add the widget on right side of screen.

Step 4. Select the widget you want on left side of screen and click ‘add’

Step 5. Click on the options tab in the widget and fill in options as per your choice.

Step 6. Click ‘Save Changes’

How to Write Blog posts, Make categories, add Tags in Wordpress?

Step 1. Login to your administration panel (/wp-admin)

Step 2. Click on ‘New Posts’

Step 3. Write the title and body of your post.

Step 4. Category in wordpress: Category are used to sort your posts in a structured formatt.

On the right hand side Click ‘ +Add new Category’ Write the category name you want for the post.

Step 5. Tags in Wordpress: Tags are words which describe your posts. Browsing with tags is fun and even search engines like it.

On the right hand side fill the tags which describe the posts. Multiple tags are seperated with a ‘,’

Step 6. Click on ‘Publish’ To publish the posts. If you don’t want to publish and just save it. Click on ‘Save Draft’.

Top 10 Wordpress Plugins

Recommended Wordpress Plugins

no specific order

1. All in Seo Pack Wordpress Plugin: The best plugin to make your blog search Engine friendly. It helps you to do search Engine optimisation on your blog. Search Engine optimisation help you to get better traffic from search engines like google.  Install the plugin using the Install Plugin in Wordpress guide above.

2. Wassup Wordpress Plugin: To get real time traffic statistics on your wordpress blog itself.

OR

Statcounter Wordpress Plugin: If you don’t mind using a third party site for tracking real time visitors, its a good plugin. If you don’t want real time statistics, use google analytics Wordpress plugin.

3. Feedburner Wordpress Plugin: This plugin helps you manage and track your feeds. It helps you track number of people reading your feeds along with various other details.

4. Akismet Wordpress Plugin: Saves your precious time by capturing Comment Spam

5. Contact Form Wordpress Plugin- To install a contact form on your blog

6. Related Posts Wordpress Plugin: This plugin automatically add related posts below your posts. If no related posts are available, it adds random posts or no posts as per your choice. Benefits include more page views and better Onsite link building for seo.

7. Share This Wordpress Plugin or Sociable Wordpress plugin: Share This plugin adds the ’share this’ button to help users boomark your blogpost on social bookmarking site. Sociable is similar. Check ‘Share This’ plugin in the end of the post.

8. Xml-Sitemap Wordpress Plugin: This wordpress plugin automatically creates sitemap for your posts in Xml formatt. This formatt is accepted by all searchengines. No worries to create your sitemap manualy

9. Wp-cache Wordpress Plugin: If you have a very high traffic site, wp-cache wordpress plugin helps to cache your blog posts. This minimise sql query runs and saves your server resource. Very useful during diggrush

10. WP Opt-In Wordpress Plugin: This plugin helps you create your own email list of subscribers. Useful to send the updates of your blog regularly. There is a big population of internet users which don’t use feeds.

How To Import Posts from other blog platform?

Step 1. Login to your administration panel (/wp-admin)

Step 2. Click on Tools > Import

Step 3. Slect the blogging platform

Step 4. Fill in the details to authorize and follow ahead.

How To Backup Your Wordpress Blog?

[a] To create a Wordpress database backup:

Step 1. Login to your cpanel account

Step 2. Click on ‘Mysql Database’. Then click on ‘PhpMyAdmin’

Step 3. Select your Wordpress database

Step 4. Click ‘Export’

Step 5. Select ‘all tables’

Step 6. Check data and structure property.

Step 7. Check ‘Save As’ Option

Step 8. Click ‘Go’ and save the file on your computer.

[b] To create a backup of Wordpress Files

Step 1. Take a timely backup of all the files in your wordpress website root.

Step 2. Save them as per dates or maintain a log, So any edits made by you on the files, can be restored later.

How to Upgrade your Wordpress blog -

Upgrade Wordpress Installation

Step 1. The most important step, BACKUP all your wordpress files and your wordpress database. Use the tutorial above to perform this step.

Step 2. Deactivate all wordpress plugin, some will not be compatible with the latest version of wordpress script.

Step 3. Download all wordpress latest stable release files.

Step 4. Extract all files and upload it on your wordpress installation/directory. Do not replace or delete wp-config.php, wp-content, wp-images, wp-includes/language folders because if you made any   custom changes, they would be gone. Also don’t delete .htaccess file. Your custom url rewrite if any, would be deleted.

Step 5. Then go to /wp-admin/upgrade.php to upgrade your wordpress script. Follow the steps accordingly.

Step 6. Reactivate the Pluginsand make changes in plugins and theme files as required.

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Joomla System Requirements

Php Version: 4.3.10+ Recommended version – 4.4.7+

Mysql Version: 3.23.x or above

Apache Version: 1.3 or above

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How to install Joomla using Fantastico De Luxe?

Step 1: Login to your cPanel account http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel

Step 2: Click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon in your cpanel account.

Step 3: Under the “Content Management” section, Click on “Joomla”.

Step 4: On the right panel, select “New Installation”

Step 5: You’ll see a page as below.

Step 6: Fill in your directory details. If you want to install it on your root directory (www.yoursite.com) leave it blank else insert the directory (eg: /joomla). Fill out other information and click “Install Joomla”.

Step 7: Joomla would be successfully installed.

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How to install joomla manually?

Step 1. Download Joomla Stable version 1.5+ for production website.

Step 2. Extract all content and upload it to (public_html or www folder). If you’re installing joomla on a subdirectory, upload the script on a sub-directory (e.g. /joomla)

Step 3. Start the installation by going to url: http://www.yoursite.com/ or http://www.yoursite.com/joomla (your sub-directory)

Step 4. Select the language of your site. Click ‘Next’

Step 5. Joomla script would make a pre-installation check to make sure whether your hosting account settings are compatible to joomla requirements. If everything is fine, Click ‘Next’

Step 6. Read the joomla license (Gnu/Gpl) Click ‘Next’

Step 7. Insert your database information Click ‘Next’

Step 8. Insert your ftp options like your ftp username and ftp password. You can also use advance settings and input your server i.p. address and server port used for ftp.

Step 9. Click ‘Autofind Ftp Path’. The path settings would be autofilled. You’ll get a message like the ftp settings are valid. Click ‘Next’

Step 10. Insert your site name, admin email and password.

Optional: You can also install sample data in your joomla installation or migrate data from other database using load migration script option

Step 11. You’ll get an installation finished message as below

Step 12. Delete the ‘installation’ directory.

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How to install templates/themes in Joomla?

Step 1. Download the joomla template (joomla theme) you like.

Step 2. Login to your adminstration template

Step 3. Click on Installer > Templates – Site (To change website design/template/theme)

or Click on Installer > Templates – Admin (To change Admin panel design/template/theme)

Step 4. Click on ‘browse’ option and select the .zip template file. Then click ‘Upload and Install’ option.

Step 5. When the file gets uploaded, click ‘Continue’

Step 6. You’ll be taken Template manager section of your admin panel. If you like the theme, press the ‘default’ button for the respective template.

What is Extensions in joomla?

Extensions add functionality to your joomla site like a Forum, Image gallery, Blog, Classifieds etc. Extensions add the features on your site, to help you make it suit your niche or just add extra features.

Six types of extensions are available in joomla

1. Components: Core functionality, Components add functions to your joomla website. Components are linked with menu items and can be added to different pages of your joomla site.

2. Modules: Modules help you display a type of content in a certain manner in your joomla templates. Polls, Counters, Recent posts etc.

3. Plugins: Plugins add small task function to your joomla site. They add small functions to your joomla site. Previously called ‘mambot’.

4. Tool: It’s an application which help you manage your joomla website.

5. Language: Add’s different language options to your joomla installation. Provides language translation

6. Special: Certain extension’s required additional files to operate, these are the special type of extension.

To install extensions, please use the particular extension help files.

How to add articles? Create sections or categories?

Step 1. Login to your hoomla administration page.

Joomla Administration Panel

Step 2. Create Sections, from the section manager in your joomla site.

Step 3. Create categories, from the category section page.

You can divide section to category, group sections as you want.

Step 4. To create an article, go to ‘content’ section and click on ‘Article Manager’

How to backup your Joomla Website?

[a] To create a database backup:

Step 1. Login to your cpanel account

Step 2. Click on ‘Mysql Database’. Then click on ‘PhpMyAdmin’

Step 3. Select your Joomladatabase

Step 4. Click ‘Export’

Step 5. Select ‘all tables’

Step 6. Check data and structure property.

Step 7. Check ‘Save As’ Option

Step 8. Click ‘Go’ and save the file on your computer.

[b] To create a backup of Joomla files

Step 1. Take a timely backup of all the files in your joomla website root.

Step 2. Save them as per dates or maintain a log, So any edits made by you on the files, can be restored later.

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Oscommerce System Requirements:

PHP v3+ (PHP v5+ recommended)
MySQL v3+ (MySQL v5+ recommended)

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How to Easily Install OsCommerce using Fantastico De Luxe?

Step 1: Login to your cPanel account http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel or http:www.yoursite.com:2082

Step 2: Click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon in your cpanel account.

Step 3: Under the “E-Commerce” section, Click on “OsCommerce”.

Step 4: On the right panel, select “New Installation”

Step 5: You’ll see a page as below.

Step 6: Fill in your directory details. If you want to install it on your root directory (www.yoursite.com) leave it blank else insert the directory (eg: /oscommerce). Fill out other information and click “Install OsCommerce”.

Step 7: OsCommerce would be successfully installed.

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How To Install OsCommerce Manually?

Step 1. Download OsCommerce script from the official drupal page.

Step 2. Extract all files and upload the ‘catalog’ folder to your installation directory in your hosting account. If you want to install it on the homepage of the site, then upload in public_html/www folder. If you want to install it in a directory, then upload the files in the particular directory (e.g. oscommerce/)

Step 3: Go to http://www.yoursite.com/ or if you’re using a directory, go to http://www.yoursite.com/oscommerce/

Step 4: Various system requirements would be checked during this stage, See the tick marks on left of the screenshot below. If you see an error, resolve it before going forward.

Step 5: Fill in your database information and click ‘Continue’

Step 6. Check the website address and website root directory. Usually you won’t have to change anything here. Click ‘Continue’

Step 7. Fill in your web store name. your name, admin email and pass. Click ‘Continue’.

Step 8. You’ll see installation complete message as below.

Step 9. Delete the /install directory

Step 8. Change the permission to includes/configure.php file.

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How To Enable Modules in Oscommerce?

Step 1. Login to your administrator account (/admin)

Step 2. Click ‘Modules’. Activate the module you want to use.

Step 3. Click “Edit’ to edit the settings for the particular module.

How To Edit Site Information?

Step 1. Login to your administrator account (/admin)

Step 2. Click Configuration, you’ll see a page as below.

Step 3. Edit the info and click ‘Save’.

Done!

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System Requirements for Drupal 6?

Apache (Recommended) Drupal will work on Apache 1.3 or Apache 2.x hosted on UNIX/Linux, OS X, or Windows. The majority of Drupal development and deployment is done on Apache so there is more community experience and testing performed. You can use the Apache ‘mod_rewrite’ extension to allow for clean URLs. Recommended: PHP 5.2 or higher Required: PHP version 4.3.5 or higher PHP 5.2 or higher will be a requirement for Drupal 7. The PHP extension for connecting to your chosen database must be installed and enabled. Drupal’s currently supported database connectors are: mysql (the original MySQL extension), mysqli (an improved connector for newer MySQL installations), and pgsql (for PostgreSQL). Note: PHP 5.x no longer enables the mysql extension by default. Please read the links above for installing and enabling your chosen connector. Additionally, Drupal 6.x does not provide the option to select the mysql connector if mysqli is enabled in your PHP configuration. PHP XML extension (for blogapi, drupal, and ping modules). This extension is enabled by default in a standard PHP installation; the Windows version of PHP has built-in support for this extension. An image library for PHP such as the GD library is needed for image manipulation (resizing user pictures, image and imagecache modules). GD is included with PHP 4.3 and higher and enabled by default. ImageMagick is also supported for basic image manipulations in Drupal core but there is much less support from contribute modules. PHP needs the following configuration directives for Drupal to work (only directives that differ from the default php.ini-dist / php.ini-recommended): register_globals: off; this is the default value, but some hosts have it enabled session.save_handler: user error_reporting set to E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE. Work is ongoing to change this to E_ALL for Drupal 6. safe_mode: off. Safe mode may interfere with file and image uploads. In addition, we recommend the following setting: session.cache_limiter: nocache Some of these settings are contained in the default .htaccess file that ships with Drupal, so you shouldn’t need to set them explicitly. Note, however, that setting PHP configuration options from .htaccess only works under the following conditions: With Apache (or a compatible web server) If the .htaccess file is actually read, i.e. AllowOverride is not None If PHP is installed as an Apache module See the PHP manual for how to change configuration settings for other interfaces to PHP. In some shared hosting environments, access to these settings is restricted. If you cannot make these changes yourself, please ask your hosting provider to adjust them for you. Database server Recommended: MySQL 4.1 or MySQL 5.0 Drupal 6 supports MySQL 4.1 or higher. Drupal 5.x and earlier supports MySQL 3.23.17 or higher. MySQL 4.1 or higher is strongly recommended. Drupal 7 will only support MySQL 5.0 or higher.

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How to Easily Install Drupal using Fantastico De Luxe?

Step 1: Login to your cPanel account http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel

Step 2: Click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon in your cpanel account.

Step 3: Under the “Content Management” section, Click on “Drupal”.

Step 4: On the right panel, select “New Installation”

Step 5: You’ll see a page as below.

Step 6: Fill in your directory details. If you want to install it on your root directory (www.yoursite.com) leave it blank else insert the directory (eg: /drupal). Fill out other information and click “Install Drupal”.

Step 7: Drupal would be successfully installed.

How to install drupal Manually?

Step 1. Download Drupal installation script from the official drupal page.

Step 2. Extract all files and upload it to your installation directory in your hosting account. If you want to install it on the homepage of the site, upload in public_html/www folder. If you want to install it in a directory, then upload the files in the particular directory (e.g. drupal/)

Step 3. Copy default.settings.php and rename to settings.php in the sites/default folder . Now you will have two files in sites/default settings.php and default.settings.php

Possible error: screenshot as below:

Solution: you just rname default.settings.php to settings.php. Please follow step 3 properly.

Step 4. Fill in database information

Step 5. Click ‘Save and Continue’ and Drupal installation starts.

Step 6. Fill in Site name and email. Also insert admin name, password and email. Enable Clean url, it helps you create Search engine optimised url’s

Step 7. You’ll get Drupal Installation complete message.

Step 8. Go to Adminster > Status report and check whether there are any reported problems.

Step 9. Go to your cpanel account and configure cron jobs for www.yoursite.com/cron.php

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How to edit site information?

Step 1. Go to Home > Administer > Site Configuration > Site information

Step 2. Configure site options like Site name, Slogan, Mission, Footer Message, Front Page settings etc.

How to Install themes in drupal?

Step 1. Download themes from http://drupal.org/project/Themes

Step 2. Create a folder ‘themes’ in sites/all/ directory

Step 3. Go to Home > Adminster > Site Configuration > Administration theme

Step 4. Tick on ‘Enable’ for the particular theme.

Step 5. To make it a default theme on your site, select default option for the particular theme.

How to Enable/Disable and Configure themes?

Step 1. Go to Home > Adminster > Site Configuration > Administration theme

Step 2. Enable or Diable themes as per your choice.

Step 3. Configure Individual themes to suit your needs. You can even change colour in many themes.

Step 4. Upload your website’s logo.

How to Install Modules in Drupal?

Step 1. Download the module from http://drupal.org/project/Modules

Step 2. Extract and upload all files in /modules folder

Step 3. Go to Home > Adminster > Site Building > Modules

Step 4. Tick on the module you want to install.

Step 5. Click ‘Save Configuration’

Step 6. Your Module is successfully installed.

How to Create Content in Drupal?

Step 1. Go to ‘Create Content’

Step 2. Select the content type you want to create (e.g. page, story etc)

Step 3. Insert the content Step 4. Select ‘Publish’ to publish the page and select ‘Promoted to front page’ to publish and promote it to the front page.

How To Backup Drupal website?

[a] To create a database backup:

1. Login to your cpanel account

2. Click on ‘Mysql Database’. Then click on ‘PhpMyAdmin’

3. Select your Drupal database

4. Click ‘Export’

5. Select ‘all tables’

6. Check data and structure property.

7.  Check ‘Save As’ Option

8. Click ‘Go’ and save the file on your computer.

[b] To create a backup of drupal files

1. Take a timely backup of all the files in your drupal root.

2. So any edits made by you on the files, can be restored later

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System Requirements for version 5.0.6

Web server: Siteframe has been installed under Apache 2.0.53; it will most likely work under older versions of Apache, but it has not been verified. It should work under any web server that supports PHP5, but, again, nothing besides Apache 2.0 has been confirmed and tested.

PHP5: Siteframe requires PHP5; it uses features of the PHP5 language that are incompatible with prior versions of PHP. Development and testing have been done using PHP 5.0.3, but it should work with any later version of PHP5. It requires the PHP5 mysqli module for database access. It also uses the SimpleXML module, which is typically installed by default with PHP5. The gd extension is required for image support; if you do not plan to use image files with Siteframe, this can be considered an optional component.

Smarty: Smarty is a PHP-based template library available from http://smarty.php.net. Siteframe uses Smarty to display all content.

MySQL: Siteframe has been developed and testing using MySQL 4.1; it will probably work under newer versions of MySQL, though that has not been verified. There are certain features of Siteframe that utilize functionality of MySQL that was not available until 4.1; the software may operate properly under older versions of MySQL, but certain features (access control lists, full-text searching) will not be available. MySQL uses InnoDB tables (except for the FULLTEXT search function) and thus will not install properly on MySQL installations that are configured without InnoDB access.

Siteframe script is 100% compatible with all hosting packages of HostLuck.com [Siteframe demo on HostLuck.com]

Easy Install Siteframe using Fantastico De Luxe:

Step 1: Login to your cPanel account http://www.yoursite.com/cpanel

Step 2: Click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon in your cpanel account.

Step 3: Under the “Content Management” section, Click on “Siteframe”.

Step 4: On the right panel, select “New Installation”

Step 5: You’ll see a page as below.

Step 6: Fill in your directory details. If you want to install it on your root directory (www.yoursite.com) leave it blank else insert the directory (eg: /siteframe). Fill out other information and click “Install Siteframe”.

Step 7: Siteframe would be successfully installed.

Manual Installation of siteframe:

Step 1. Download the SiteFrame latest version from the official site.

Step 2. Decompress it and upload it on your website root (public_html/www) folder or if you want to install it in a directory, upload in your particular directory folder (eg: /siteframe).

Step 3. Edit the file siteframe.ini-dist. Fill in your website details.

Step 4. Fill in your database information.

Step 5. There are various other options like content types for your site. Fill them as per your requirements.

Step 6. Run yoursite.com/setup.php file.
Possible errors: Warning: require(Smarty.class.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /some path/
Solution: Edit line 10 in siteframe.inc file

put define(‘SMARTY_CLASS’, ‘/usr/local/lib/php/Smarty/Smarty.class.php’); //hostluck customers only.

If you’re not a hostluck.com customer. ask your web hosting provider for the path to smarty files and insert it in siteframe.inc

Step 7. If everything is fine, a setup page would be seen as below.

Step 8. Fill in your administrator name, pass and email and click “Continue Setup”.

Step 9. All the sql queries would run and give you ‘OK’ confirmation on the end. i.e. your setup is successfully done.

Step 10. Check out the Siteframe Demo on HostLuck.com

Cheap Siteframe Hosting

Web Hosting is a service which stores web pages and database on web servers so they can be accessed on Internet using a browser.

Say you create a web page and you need to show it to the world, how will you do that? You need to rent web space on web servers along with bandwidth from a web hosting provider.

Web space/Storage space: It is the storage capacity provided by the hosting company to store your files and database on the web server. Most of the web server use Linux operating system for better stability and security.

Bandwidth: When a user request a particular site on the Internet using a browser.
Say you type ‘http://www.hostluck.com’ Your browser would send a request to the server which stores the pages of the particular site. Then it would download the page from the particular web server. Depending on number of visitors to the page, the amount of data is transferred from the server to the user’s pc. The amount of data transfer allowed in your hosting account is called Bandwidth.

IP address: Ip address is a unique Internet protocol number assigned to each web server. ex:  75.155.68.98

Domain names: Hostluck.com and yahoo.com are some domain names. These domain names refer to ip address of the server they are pointed to.  So when a browser asks for hostluck.com its referred to the i.p.  75.155.68.98. All the files of hostluck.com are stored on a server located with i.p. 75.155.68.98. Domain names are registered using a domain registrar company.

Email Accounts: An email account like name@yourdomain.com are also provided by hosting companies. This service usually comes with your hosting account.

Types of Hosting:

There are many type of hosting accounts. Some are stated below.

Shared Hosting: In shared hosting packages, many sites share a web server together. Renting a dedicated web server could be costly for single site owners. These difficulty is solved by hosting many sites on a single server. This bring down the hosting cost and is a win-win situation for all. Cpanel and various other features are provided by the hosting companies to manage your hosting account.

Reseller Hosting: Any Webmaster with sufficient knowledge can start a hosting company using a reseller hosting package. In this type of hosting you can host your own site’s as well sell hosting to others. A special software called Web Host Manager is provided by the web hosting company so you can create Cpanel based web hosting accounts for your clients.

Semi-Dedicated Server: Say you have a site which needs large amount of bandwidth and disk space along with heavy cpu resource usage. But still its not big enough that it needs a dedicated server. Then you can opt for semi-dedicated plans where there are no complexities of dedicated server, yet you get a better performance and usage availability than shared hosting.

Dedicated Servers: A site which requires enormous bandwidth and storage space along with heavy resource usage should go for a Dedicated server. In this package a single user use a dedicated web server. This are the costliest package but they give highest disk space and bandwidth.

Clustered Servers: In this package, a chain of web servers are used by a single user.

Managed Hosting Service: In this package, the dedicated server is completely managed bu the web hosting company staff. So user can concentrate on the site and not worry about various complex issues of a dedicated server.

Ecommerce Hosting: In this package the hosting environment tailored with high security using ssl certificated and various other features.  But these features also come in shared hosting packages nowadays.

Proxy Hosting: In this package, the user is allowed to run proxy sites, which are heavy on resource usage.

FFmpeg Hosting: In this package, user is given ffmpeg add-on in their hosting account, used for Video file conversion. A boon for Video based site’s.

File Hosting: In this package, a user stores files for future use or for others to download and no web pages are hosted.

Non-Profit Charity Hosting: Various Hosting Companies provide free web hosting to Non-profit sites working for special humanly cause.  :-)

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