X-Login 1.1.3 Install

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 Setup
	1.1 Unpack 
	1.2 Check components
	1.3 Set up database
	1.4 Configure forum
	1.5 Run Install

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



1. Setup


1.1 Unpack
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unpack the zip file to the catalog where you have set up IIS to run X-Login. If X-Login is on a remote server
unpack the files to a temoporary directory on your local computer and the use your ftp client to upload all files to the
webserver.



1.2 Check components
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Before you can begin to install X-Login you need to check that the webserver that you are installing X-Login on has the 
required components. X-Login has been tested on IIS 5 and 6 (windows 2000 and windows xp/2003), running X-Login on Linux
with chilisoft or other similar is not supported. 

There are three important things that you must have to set up X-Login:
1.) Mail component (CDOSYS is currently supported by X-Login)
2.) A database (Microsoft Access 2000 is currently supported by X-Login)



1.3 Set up database
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
X-Login comes with Microsoft Access 2000 as the default database.

To set up X-Login with Access all you need to do is make sure
that the IUSR_computername account on your server has write access to the path were the .mdb file exist
(database/XLogin.mdb is the default location). If X-Login resides on a webhost you may want to check with the provider
were to put your Access file since this can differs between hosts. For security issues you may want to change the name
of the .mdb file so noone can download the whole database just by typing the url to the file. If (and you really should)
you change the file name remeber to change the strDbName variable in the configuration file described in 1.4 later.



1.4 Configure X-Login
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are some important settings that you have to change before you can run Install.asp. Open the
includes/Configuration.asp file in any texteditor you want and change the following lines

Const strVirtualPath = "/"

If you are installing X-Login in the root of your website, then leave strVirtualPath as-is. Otherwise you will need to
adjust strvirtualPath accordingly.

Say you are installing to http://yoursite.com/login/, then strVirtualPath should look like this:

Const strVirtualPath = "/login/"

If your database isn't inside the database folder, then you need to change strDbPath to the correct path, for example
say I put my database in C:\Domains\mysite.com\db\XLogin.mdb, then strDbPath would look like this:

strDbPath = "C:\Domains\mysite.com\db\"

NOTICE: Check with your webhost if you don't know where your database file should be located.

If you opted to change the name of your database file, then you need to update this in your configuration, by changing
strDbName.

Lets say you renamed your database to XLogin_2006.mdb, then strDbName should look like this:

strDbName = "XLogin_2006.mdb"



1.4 Install
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Go to http://yoursite.com/Install.asp and follow the instructions 
there and then you're all set to go.

Note: Make sure you delete the following files: "Install.asp" after you have installed X-Login.

Now popup your browser and head to http://yoursite.com/Default.asp and check out your new X-Login install.



Enjoy
X-Login Developers Team
info@freedomweb.us