Instalacion

PHP/MELODY

Installation Manual

Hello!

Thank you for choosing PHP Melody as your video content solution.
This guide will assist you through the four steps required to install PHP Melody.If you encounter any issues, feel free to contact the support team.

Setting up the MySQL user and database

Log into your hosting control panel (cPanel, Plesk, etc.) and create a new MySQLdatabase and a new MySQL user. Then grant this user full access to the newly
created database. If you have any doubts or require assistance, kindly ask your
hosting provider to set these up for you.
Youshould end up with the following details:
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MySQL server name (usually it is ‘localhost’)
MySQL database name
MySQL username (with full access to the database)
MySQL password (for theusername above)

Edit config.php

Open the “PHP Melody” folder and rename config-sample.php to config.php
Proceed to opening config.php with any text editor to fill in the MySQL data from
“Step1”. Below is a sample of config.php. The yellow highlight illustrates what
needs replacing.
$db_name
$db_user
$db_pass
$db_host

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'database_name'; // MySQL database name'database_username'; // MySQL username
'password'; // MySQL password
'localhost';

define('_URL', 'http://www.site.com'); // The installation URL
define('_CUSTOMER_ID', 'YOUR_CUSTOMER_ID');

YourCustomer ID is found in our order confirmation emails and/or in your
Customer Account.

Upload files & set permissions

Using your favorite FTP Client, upload the contents of the “PHP Melody” folderto
your hosting account.

All files should be uploaded in BINARY mode except for phpmelody_sql.sql which
should be uploaded in ASCII mode. (Note: most modern FTP Clients will do thisautomatically)
Mac OSX users should make sure the .htaccess file is uploaded as well.

Once the upload is finished, start setting the required permissions to the following
files and folder. Using your FTP...