Noah's Classifieds Tutorial and Installation How To

This tutorial describes how to use the Noah's Classifieds software with your NEXCESS.NET web hosting account. NEXCESS.NET specializes in hosting classified software and this tutorial is meant to help you quickly setup your site with our web hosting service.

Noah's Classifieds is open source, meaning that you can use and distribute it as you'd like as long as you don't change it.

For the sake of this tutorial we'll assume that you own the domain 'johnsmith.com' and are setting up Noah's Classifieds at http://johnsmith.com/nc/.

Follow these steps to complete the tutorial:

1. The first thing to do is to run through the SiteWorx MySQL tutorial and create a database for Noah's Classifieds to use to store the information it needs.

   Create a database called 'nc' with a user named 'nc'. When you do this SiteWorx will prefix the database and user names with some text resembling your domain name.

   With our example domain of 'johnsmith.com' the database name is 'johnsmit_nc' and the username is the same 'johnsmit_nc'.

2. Download the latest version of Noah's Classifieds from the Noah's Classifieds website and unzip the contents of the zip file to your desktop using http://winzip.com.

   You should now have a folder on your desktop named 'classifieds_1_3'. Rename the 'classifieds_1_3' folder to 'nc'.

3. Upload the 'nc' folder to your web hosting account. You can do this using an FTP program. If you don't know how to do this, check out the FTP tutorials on our tutorials page.
4. You can now access the Noah's Classifieds install page. For this example, we'll point to 'http://www.johnsmith.com/nc/install.php'. The script will tell you that you need to create a config.php file.

   

   Open your text editing program. Save the blank file as 'config.php' in the 'nc' folder on your desktop. Upload the 'config.php' file to your web hosting account.

   Once the file is uploaded, you need to change the permissions on the file. You can do this using the CHMOD command in your FTP program. If you don't know how to do this, check out the FTP tutorials on our tutorials page. CHMOD the 'config.php' file to 666.

   Once you've given the file the correct permissions, refresh the install page. The error should now be gone. You need to enter the information for the database you created in step #1. For this example, we'll enter the following information:

   • Username: johnsmit_nc
   • Password: mypassword
   • Database Name: johnsmit_nc

   Your screen should look like this:

   

   Click the 'OK' button to continue. The script will now show you the values you entered so you can double check them. Your screen should look like this:

   

   Click the 'Install' button to continue. Your tables will be created and populated. Your installation is now complete. Your screen should look like this:

   

   Now you need to delete the 'install.php' file from your webspace. Once the file is deleted, click the 'Click here to access classifieds' link to continue. You should now be on the main page of the classifieds. Your screen should look like this:

   

   You need to do a couple more things for your installation to be complete. First, you need to change the permissions on the 'pictures/cats' and 'pictures/listings' folder. CHMOD these folders to 777. Once you've changed the permissions on those folders, click on the 'Change Password' link on the top left of the menu in order to change the default admin password. Enter a new password twice. Your screen should look like this:

   

   Click the 'OK' button to change the password. You should now be on the main page of the classifieds again. All the error messages should be gone now. You're also logged in as the admin. From here you can manage your Noah's Classifieds system as you see fit. The Noah's Classifieds tutorial is now complete. Your screen should look like this:

   

   For more information on how to use Noah's Classifieds once it's installed, check out the Noah's ClassifiedsFAQs.

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