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@@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
-FrontAccounting
-
-
-
+FrontAccounting
FrontAccounting
Installation
@@ -16,7 +13,7 @@ installed on the web server.
server - with innodb
tables enabled (see notes below)
Adobe Acrobat Reader
-- for viewing the PDF reports before printing them out.
+- or another PDF reader for viewing the PDF reports before printing them out.
Important Notes
@@ -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
@@ -58,7 +63,7 @@ the username and password for the database. You will need these
informations during the wizard install.
- Enter your_url/account/install
(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.
- After successfully install, remove or rename your install
@@ -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.
@@ -133,7 +136,7 @@ user ROOT. A user with appropriate privileges must be set up.
password for “dbuser”. You would have entered this when you created
“dbuser”.
- “dbname” is the name of
-the database. The provided scripts use the name OpenAccounting.
+the database. The provided scripts use the name - frontaccount.
- “tbpref” is the table
prefix for
the tables. If you only have access to one database, you must use table
@@ -150,7 +153,7 @@ on the server is writable.
directory where FrontAccounting is installed.
- Enter the user name: 'admin'
-- Enter the password: 'password'
+
- Enter the password: 'password'. If you used the automatic installer, then use your own password.
- (NB : enter without quotation marks).
-
@@ -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