PhpMotion Installation

If you want to run PHPmotion you will need either to have a dedicated server with the following required modules installed OR a web hosting provider that already has these features.

Servers - Linux/Unix server

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• PHP 4.3 and above (including support of CLI)
• MySQL database server
• LAME MP3 Encoder
• Libogg + Libvorbis
• Mencoder and also Mplayer
• FFMpeg-PHP
• GD Library 2 or higher
• CGI-BIN    

PHP Settings

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• open_basedir = (no value)
• upload_max_filesize = 100M
• post_max_size = 100M
• max_execution_time = 1500
• session.gc_maxlifetime = 14000
• safe_mode = off
• enable_dl = On

Apache Web Server

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• .htaccess support
• mod rewrite 

You will need to have your Mysql Database Information. You can create a Mysql database via your web hosts control panel
- Mysql Database Name
- Mysql Database User Name
- Mysql Database Password

Downloading PHPmotion

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You can download phpmotion from the URL
http://phpmotion.com/content/view/1/180/

General Instructions

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• Unzip the download file
• Upload (the contents) to your website using FTP
• The following files MUST be uploaded in Binary mode
  • /phpshiled/all files in this folder
  • /classes/config.php
  • /addons/customprofile/pimp.class.php
  • /addons/customprofile/index.php
• The following files must be CHMOD to 755
  • /cgi-bin/all files and folder in this folder
• Start the installation wizard by (opening in your broswer) http://www.yourdomain.com/setup (you will be required to chmod a few more files by the setup wizard)

The setup wizard will guide you through the rest of the installation process.

Additional Instructions

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Installing to a Sub-Directory

If you are installing to a sub directory (example: http://www.yourdomain.com/**phpmotion**) you should do all the steps above and also the steps below additional steps

Edit the following files to include your subfolder name: (in this example the subfolder name we have inserted is phpmotion )

• /cgi-bin/uu_default_config.pm
• /cgi-bin/audio/uu_default_config.pm

    temp_dir                 => $ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'} . '/phpmotion/temp/',
    upload_dir               => $ENV{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'} . '/phpmotion/uploads/avi/',
    redirect_url             => '/phpmotion/uploader_finished.php',
    path_to_upload           => '/phpmotion/uploads/avi/',

• /audio_uploader_conlib.php
• /uploader_conlib.php

$path_to_upload_script      = '/phpmotion/cgi-bin/uu_upload.pl';
 $path_to_ini_status_script  = '/phpmotion/cgi-bin/uu_ini_status.pl';

/.htaccess

#----- if phpmotion is installed in a sub directory edit the RewriteBase as follows -----#
  # EXAMPLE => RewriteBase /phpmotion
  # EXAMPLE => RewriteBase /phpmotion
  RewriteBase /

For trouble sooting common errors in phpmotion, 

http://wiki.phpmotion.com/CommonInstallationErrors