<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"><head><title>FrontAccounting</title>
-
-</head>
-
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"><head><title>FrontAccounting</title></head>
<body>
<div><strong><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Front</span>Accounting
Installation</span></strong></div>
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
informations during the wizard install. </li>
<li>Enter <strong><em>your_url/account/install</em></strong>
(or whatever directory you entered). This will run the install wizard,
-setup a drill company and populating with initial data. You can later
+setup a drill company and optional populating with initial demo data. You can later
on create your own real company. It is a good idea to get familiar with
the system before starting your own company. </li>
<li>After successfully install, remove or rename your install
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
directory where FrontAccounting is installed. </li>
<li>Enter the user name: '<strong>admin</strong>'
</li>
-<li>Enter the password: '<strong>password</strong>'
+<li>Enter the password: '<strong>password</strong>'. If you used the automatic installer, then use your own password.
</li>
<li>(NB : enter without quotation marks). </li>
<li>
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