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
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>