server - with <strong><em>innodb</em></strong>
tables enabled (see notes below) </li>
<li><strong><em>Adobe Acrobat Reader</em></strong>
-- for viewing the PDF reports before printing them out. </li>
+- or another PDF reader for viewing the PDF reports before printing them out. </li>
</ul>
<h2>Important Notes</h2>
<ul>
sessions are required they are started by the system and this setting
of <strong><em>session.auto_start</em></strong>
can and should be set to 0. </li>
+<li>
+For security reasons both Register Globals and Magic Quotes php settings
+should be set to Off. When FrontAccounting is used with www server running
+php as Apache module, respective flags are set in .htaccess file. When your
+server uses CGI interface to PHP you should set
+<strong><em>magic_quotes_gpc = 0</em></strong> and
+<strong><em>register_globals = 0</em></strong> in php.ini file.
+</li>
<li><strong><em>Innodb</em></strong>
tables must be enabled in the MySQL server. These tables allow database
transactions which are a critical component of the software. This is
development, the database structure will ALWAYS change between
releases, so if you have a database that you created for a previous
release of FrontAccounting, it WILL NOT WORK after installing a new
-release. You may run the script, update_db.php and select the
-appropriate script, f.i. alter.sql and alter2.sql (from
-release 1.XX to release 2.0). </li>
+release. <br />Please look in the file <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Update.html</span> for how to handle this. </li>
<li>We strongly suggest using a GUI to manage your
database(s) and database users. If you don’t have any, download <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/"><strong>phpMyAdmin</strong></a>.
</li>
password for “dbuser”. You would have entered this when you created
“dbuser”. </li>
<li>“<strong>dbname</strong>” is the name of
-the database. The provided scripts use the name OpenAccounting. </li>
+the database. The provided scripts use the name - frontaccount. </li>
<li>“<strong>tbpref</strong>” is the table
prefix for
the tables. If you only have access to one database, you must use table