Experimenting with DotProject in place of PHProjekt,
I see dotproject has a nicer sorting of companies, vendors, etc. Seems to be lacking ability to do email within. Or keep track of time. However a new version is in Beta so it will be interesting to see what the update version has to offer.
For initial setup I suggest using the 5 page installation instructions hidden within the program under docs.
To get that if on Windows you will first have to unzip the files and directories then copy them into your server. The default for SME would be to create a ibay "DotProject" and copy the files and subdirectories of dotproject to the htm directory.
Don't use the more vague instructions on the documentation site.
I also had difficulites with section 5. Populate the database when I was in mysql. I suggest using midnight commander "MC" at command prompt and navigating to the "/db directory.
Exit Midnight Commander - "F10"
do a "dir" to confirm a file such as "dotproject_102.sql" is there.
enter the following without the quotes. And without being in mysql at the time.
"mysql -udotproject -pyourpassword dotproject < dotproject_102.sql;"
Nothing should show different if it worked but if you have any typo it will indicate an error
To enter mysql at the prompt, simply type mysql
If you still have trouble 3 useful commands for mysql once having entered mysql are
show databases (to see if dotproject really exists)
drop database dotproject (to delete and to start again)
quit (to get out of MYSql)
As mentioned earlier in the thread it appears the correct root_dir assuming you use a default of dotproject for ibay is
/home/e-smith/files/ibays/html/ dot project directories and files here
I still have to figure out file management configuration but this at least has got me to the stage where I can get into DotProject and see if I want to go further. Please feel free to expand on the above explanation so it becomes a full featured How To.
Ken Graham
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