Welcome to LinkMachine! ================================================================== Requirements ================ LinkMachine is a PHP based application that will run on any web server that supports PHP version 4 or later. Installation ================ 1) This archive contains a file called readme.txt (this file) and a directory called "linkmachine/". Using your FTP program, upload the "linkmachine/" directory to your site's home directory. Then turn on all of the write permissions for your site's "linkmachine/" directory. (See below for more information about doing this.) 2) Open a web browser and enter the URL of the file "install.php" within your site's "linkmachine/" directory. For instance, if your site is called "www.widget-world.com", you'd enter the URL: "http://www.widget-world.com/linkmachine/install.php". 3) Follow the instructions that appear to complete the installation. Installing LinkMachine Automatically ======================================== If you encounter any problems installing LinkMachine, you may want to try the easy to use automatic LinkMachine Online Installer: http://linkmachine.net/install.php Using LinkMachine ===================== To access LinkMachine, enter the URL of your site's "linkmachine.php" script in the URL bar of a web browser. For example, if your site is called "www.widget-world.com", you'd enter the URL: "http://www.widget-world.com/linkmachine/linkmachine.php". You may wish to bookmark your site's LinkMachine page for easy access in the future. Now you're ready to use LinkMachine! You may find it helpful to read the Getting Started pages for an overview of how LinkMachine works: http://www.linkmachine.net/doc_getting_started.htm Changing Write Permissions ============================== After uploading the "linkmachine/" directory to your site, it's important to set the write permissions for that directory to true, so that LinkMachine can save new files in the directory. If you do not know how to use your FTP program to change a directory's write permissions to true, please consult your FTP program's documentation. One common method used by many FTP programs is to select the directory, choose Change Permissions from a right-click or pop-down menu, and turn on all write permissions. In other FTP programs you would select chmod instead, and set the permissions number to 777. If you don't have an FTP program, we recommend SmartFTP, which can be downloaded for free at this site: http://www.smartftp.com/ (c) Copyright 2004-2005 IronZog, All Rights Reserved