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FrontAccounting Installation
@@ -30,6 +27,14 @@ system relies on. Classes are used extensively by this system. When sessions are required they are started by the system and this setting of session.auto_start can and should be set to 0. +
  • +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 +magic_quotes_gpc = 0 and +register_globals = 0 in php.ini file. +
  • Innodb tables must be enabled in the MySQL server. These tables allow database transactions which are a critical component of the software. This is @@ -76,9 +81,7 @@ recommended) 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).
    • +release. 
    Please look in the file Update.html for how to handle this.
  • We strongly suggest using a GUI to manage your database(s) and database users. If you don’t have any, download phpMyAdmin.
    • @@ -180,8 +183,8 @@ Make sure this is set to a directory that actually exists. The default is set to /tmp, which may not be valid.
  • 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 :
    • +the top of  +/includes/session.inc you will find this line :
  • 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