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THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING ULTIMATE LOCATOR v2.3
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UPGRADING?
*** See the README_UPGRADE.htm file for
upgrading instructions
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QUICK INSTRUCTIONS FOR NEW INSTALLS:
For any help with setup, installations, or tech related questions, simply
login to your Ultimate Locator
Member's Account and click the "Trouble Ticket" link to send our support
techs a question or comment. You
must have an active member's account in order to login.
Ultimate Locator
brought to you by Web Logic Media
Fort Worth, Texas
support@ultimatelocator.com
http://www.ultimatelocator.com
All materials copyright 2003-2005 Web Logic Media. All rights reserved
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ONLINE USER MANUAL
A more detailed user manual is available. Just visit
http://support.ultimatelocator.com/docs for full installation,
customization and control panel instructions.
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QUICK FTP INSTALLATION SUMMARY:
Linux/UNIX servers running apache, php and mysql! - your server must meet
the minimum requirements in order to run properly.
Summary:
After you unzip the files on your local machine, ftp the whole contents of
the "locator" folder
somewhere on the server that you can access it with an "http:" address.
You will be uploading PHP pages and graphics, so be sure to use "Auto"
transfer mode, or use
ASCII for all php/script files and BINARY for all image files.
Once you have all the files and folders on your server, you need to change
permissions on a few
of them.
Create your new MySQL Database without any tables. (just leave empty)
Begin the installation by accessing your install.php file in your browser.
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FTP upload all files and images to your server. We recommend uploading to
a new directory named /locator.
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Change permissions to "Writable - CHMOD 0777" on the following files and
directories:
A. CHMOD 0777 the following directories:
/locator/dbackup
/locator/key
B. CHMOD 0777 the following files:
/locator/admin/config.php
/locator/admin/codelock.php
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Create your new (empty) MySQL Database (more help on this in our online
manual)
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Access your installation by viewing your install script in your browser:
http://www.yourservernamehere.com/locator/install.php
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The first screen of the installation will ask you to input your Member
Account Information.
This information must be entered EXACTLY as you have entered it in your
Account Profile.
A. Username - you chose this during signup
B. Password - you chose this during signup
C. Email - you gave us this during signup
If you enter this correctly, you will see a "Registration Complete" on the
next screen.
If you get an error, go back to the first screen and try entering your
information again. Be sure
to use the same CaSe.
******************** Special Notes About
Registration: **********************************
The website's domain URL you gave us during signup, for your license, must
be the exact same domain URL
you are installing and registering the software on. Our registration
process will look closely at the
domain you are installing from and only allow you to continue if it
matches exactly with what is on your
license on our servers.
For example: Lets say that during signup, you entered the following domain
URL into the "Domain Name On License"
field: www.mysite.com
The following will succeed:
http://www.mysite.com/locator/install.php
The following will fail:
http://mysite.com/locator/install.php
http://subdomain.mysite.com/locator/install.php
If you need to change your domain name that is licensed to your account,
you MUST send an email
to support@ultimatelocator.com. We do not allow you to login and make
changes to this field in
your profile. It must be done by us. You have 30 days to change your
domain on license for free.
After 30 days, there is a $25 fee for each time you need to change.
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Begin Multi-Step installation. Follow the instructions that are on your
screen.
After you are finished with the 6 steps of installation, you will be asked
to login to your Admin Control Panel,
where you can begin to manage your locator system.
If you have trouble installing, please see our Online FAQ Knowledgebase
for installation errors and remedys.
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The first time you run the /admin/index.php control panel script and try
to login to the Admin Control Panel,
you will be asked for an UNLOCK KEY. The unlock key is always the text
'ultimate' followed by the version number.
For example: If you are installing Ultimate Locator v2.3 the unlock key
would be: ultimate2.3
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You are also given a special file called X.htaccess in your
/locator directory, if you experience trouble after
running the install, you can rename this file on your server to .htaccess
(remove the X) and it may solve most issues.
More help about this file located at: http://www.ultimatelocator.com/faq/question.php?qstId=39
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Support Options:
FAQ:
http://www.ultimatelocator.com/faq.htm
(The questions we get most are answered here. Installation questions too!)
User Forum:
http://forum.ultimatelocator.com
Trouble Tickets: Login at:
http://members.ultimatelocator.com/member.php
Live Chat:
http://www.ultimatelocator.com/chat.htm
(Live chat is only available free of charge for sales questions and
installation support.
All other support related questions must be submitted via our Trouble
Ticket System.)
Online User Manual:
http://support.ultimatelocator.com/docs
(we recommend all users view this, it has a lot of detailed information)
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Customization Options:
Version 2.3+ now supports HEADER and FOOTER templates. You can
now easily add your own html and graphics to these files for a quick way
to customize the look and feel of your locator's Front-End. These
header/footer files get printed to the browser while your visitor is using
your locator system.
Template customizations:
You may also open the template files with your favorite html editor and
change the html templates to better match
your own site's theme and layout. Be sure to see the Online User Manual
before you start editing templates.
The Front-End html templates are located in the /locator/templates
directory.
The Admin Control Panel templates are located in the
/locator/templates/admin directory.
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Encryption
To protect our copyrights and source code, certain files within your
download have been encrypted. Our encryption
methods require that you have ZLib v1.1.4+ installed on your server. ZLib
is usually installed, but there is a chance
that you have ZLib v1.1.3 or older version. If you have v1.1.3 or other
version, please login to your account and
download the NZ version of the software. This is a "Non ZLib" encrypted
version, and should run without requiring
ZLib on your server. There is no difference in the ZLib and Non-ZLib
versions, except for the encryption method.
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