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<div><strong><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Front</span>Accounting
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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>
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+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.
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<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>.
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is set to /tmp, which may not be valid. </li>
<li>If you are installing FrontAccounting onto a shared server,
you may have to set the session save path within FrontAccounting. At
-the top of config.php (in release 2.0 this has moved to
-/includes/session.inc) you will find this line : </li>
+the top of
+/includes/session.inc you will find this line : </li>
<li>Uncomment this line and set the path to a directory that
exists
on your server. Make sure that you have read/write privileges on this
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