Upload snews

If you are using sNews 1.6,
There are only 4 steps to publish snews.

1.Create database under your website first.
a. Goto your phpmyadmin at your web site ( ask administrator how to add database to your mySQL )
b. Input your Login and Password for your phpmyadmin web ( usually under cpanel )
c. Create database : snews
d. Activated your new database ( snews ) - click snews in the left side
e. Click SQL ( icon above your database or the tab after structure )
f. Open readme.html in your computer / snews16
g. Copy - Paste : CREATE TABLE articles ( ...... bla-bla until .... INSERT INTO settings VALUES (23, 'password', '098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6'); to your phpmysql box
h. Then click [ Go ] button
i. If you are succed, there are 4 tables under your snews database.

2. Modified snews.php in your computer under snews16's folder
a. open snews.php with FrontPage/Dreamwaver or Notepad
b. there are 3 should be modify ( see the bold )
*****************************
// DATABASE VARIABLES
function db($variable) {
$db = array();
$db['website'] = 'http://www.yourweb.com/'; //<<--- here is your web address ( http://www.yourweb.com )
$db['dbhost'] = 'localhost'; //MySQL Host
$db['dbname'] = 'snews'; //Database Name
$db['dbuname'] = 'username'; // <<--- your User in phpmysql web
$db['dbpass'] = 'password'; //<<--- your Password in phpmysql web
$db['prefix'] = ''; //Database prefix
**********************
c. save and close your snews.php

3. Modified snews.php in your computer under snews16's folder
a. open .htaccess with FrontPage/Dreamwaver or Notepad
b. only 1 should be modify ( see the bold )
**********************************

php_value session.use_trans_sid 0


SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase http://www.yourweb.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) $1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?category=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+)/([^/]+) index.php?category=$1&title=$2 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z_]+)/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/
index.php?category=$1&title=$2&commentspage=$3 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)/([0-9]+)/
index.php?category=$1 articlespage=$2 [L]
*****************************
c. save and close your .htaccess


4. Upload snews to your web site with FTP program
a. Ask your domain name (website ) , User and Password to your administrator
b. Copy ( upload ) files : index.php , snews.php and .htaccess

further information about snews, visit snews.com

Firdaus Maulana

19.05.2008. 15:54

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