FAQMasterFlex Tutorial and Installation How To

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

FAQMasterFlex 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 FAQMasterFlex at http://johnsmith.com/fmf/.

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 FAQMasterFlex to use to store the information it needs.

   Create a database called 'fmf' with a user named 'fmf'. 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_fmf' and the username is the same 'johnsmit_fmf'.

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

   You should now have a folder named 'FAQMasterFlex' on your desktop. Open up the 'FAQMasterFlex' folder and you should see another folder named 'FAQMasterFlex'. Rename the inside 'FAQMasterFlex' folder to 'fmf'.

3. Open the 'fmf' folder. You should see a file named 'faq_config.php'. Open this file with your text editing program. You need to change the variables in this file to match the information for the database you created in step #1. For this example, we'll enter the following information:
   • $link = mysql_connect("localhost","johnsmit_fmf","mypassword"); - Stays the same.
   • mysql_select_db("johnsmit_fmf");
   • $username = "admin"; - Choose a username for your admin account
   • $password = "admin"; - Choose a password for your admin account

   Your screen should look like this:

   

   Save and close the FAQMasterFlex 'faq_config.php' file.
4. Upload the 'fmf' 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. Now you need to import the 'faqmasterflex.sql' file into your database. You can do this using the phpMyAdmin system. If you don't know how to do this, check out the phpMyAdmin tutorial on our tutorials page.
5. You can now access the admin page. For this example, we'll point to 'http://www.johnsmith.com/fmf/faq_admin.php'. You should now see a popup window asking you for your username and password. Enter the information you created for your admin account. Your screen should look like this:

   

   Click the 'OK' button to login. You should now be on the main FAQMasterFlex admin control panel page. From here you can manage your FAQMasterFlex system how you see fit. The FAQMasterFlex tutorial is now complete! Your screen should look like this:

   

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