Step 1: General Settings

General Settings Form:

During Step 1 of the installation, you will be presented with a General Settings Form which will allow you to input your server paths and MySQL database login info. This is a very important step and you should always double check your entries to confirm that they are correct.

The install script will try to automatically input your server paths for you. But, it's a good idea to double check the entries that the script puts in each box, to make sure they are accurate.

If you aren't sure what your server paths are, you should email your hosting company or server admin and ask them what your server's system path from root is. Let them know you are installing software that requires this information.

Enter your Server Paths:

Please go through each entry and make sure that the pre-flled path entries are correct. Here are examples of what your paths 'might' look like:

Server Path From Root

Example Data

Server Path to the Admin directory:	Unix: /home/domain/www/locator/admin Windows: c:\hosting\mydomain\locator\admin
Server Path to the Admin Templates directory:	Unix: /home/domain/www/locator/templates/admin Windows: c:\hosting\mydomain\locator\templates\admin
Server Path to the Front-End Templates directory:	Unix: /home/domain/www/locator/templates Windows: c:\hosting\mydomain\locator\templates
Server Path to the Backup directory:	Unix: /home/domain/www/locator/dbackup Windows: c:\hosting\mydomain\locator\dbackup
URL to the Images directory: (no domain needed)	www.mysite.com/locator/templates/images would be entered as /locator/templates/images
URL to the Backup directory: (no domain needed)	www.mysite.com/locator/dbackup would be entered as /locator/dbackup
URL to the Locator directory: (no domain needed)	www.mysite.com/locator/ would be entered as /locator/

MySQL Database Settings

Database Host The host where the database is located. In most cases, it is located on 'localhost', 'localhost.localdomain' or an IP address.	localhost
Database Name The name of your mysql database. You must create this database first, outside of this script, to continue.	locator
Database Username Your database username.	admin
Database Password Your database password.	pass123XX

Caution!

Your entire Locator system relies on the entries that you input here for it's configuration settings. Getting these entries wrong will cause your locator to not work correctly.

Once you are confident that all entries on the screen are accurate, please click the 'Continue' button to save your entries and go to the next step.