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Setting up your Oxwall,installing and HOW TO DO IT,if you or having problems | Forum

Pete
Pete Feb 20 '13

Setting oxwall up in a sub folder,or subdomain,You must edit your htaccess file in your oxwall to allow it to run in a sub folder,or your main index won`t show ,You need to add to your htaccess file

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/your name of your sub folder here or subdomain folder/

 

If you do get error messages allways check your config file in oxwall and make sure your database setting or correct,etc.

 

If you want to set oxwall up in your main public_html then it is best to unzip the oxwall download and upload all files and folders useing your ftp software.

 

When setting your cron up ,please make sure you leave the space after php5 /and you must add the full path

/usr/bin/php5 /home/sites/yourdomain/public_html/ow_cron/run.php

if your not running php5 then try this.

/usr/bin/php /home/yourdomain/public_html/ow_cron/run.php   dont forget to leave a space after the php or it will not work.

,set your cron up for every 5 mins or you will have problems,oxwall says every min to run cron ,but i found if you do this for some reason it stops working if you get lots of members joining your website.

 

Make sure that you make backups of your database at least once every day ,if you dont you or asking for trouble .

 

Thought i would just also add this as so many peps keep asking about SMTP host settings .

 

enable SMTP host : mail.yourdomain.com port:26

2-your -email account like admin@yourdomain.com

password of your e-mail not of cpanel

 

Please also read here for more help and advice

http://www.oxwall.org/forum/topic/7167

 

And here

http://www.oxwall.org/forum/topic/2522

 

Oxwall docs you can read here

http://docs.oxwall.org/

 

 

How to turn on your debug mode to find out what is causing your error messages,you need to open folder ow_includes

 

And click on config.php

 

Scroll to bottom tex and change to true and save file ,then go to your website and you should get a list of all the problems causing your error`s

Make sure you re edit your config file after and change back to false and save.

 

 

Please note if your members or not getting any sign up emails,or no emails from admin,or your members or staying online without being logged out ,then your cron is set up wrong.THIS IS A CRON PROBLEM.

The Forum post is edited by Pete Feb 20 '13
Pete
Pete Feb 20 '13

If you want to add a new mod you will get the above,  you need to edit as above,this works for most peps.

 

You may have to add for host( localhost if you get error message

instead of ftp.yourdomain.com

The Forum post is edited by Pete Feb 20 '13
Pete
Pete Feb 20 '13

 

If you want to make different roles for members you need to log into your admin in oxwall  and click on user,here you can add set up for a mod,etc,you edit your profile questions ,send all your members mail,etc

 

 

The Forum post is edited by Pete Feb 20 '13
Pete
Pete Feb 20 '13

Log into your oxwall admin,click on pages and menus,here you can edit your dashboard,edit user profile,set maintenance page to close your site while you work on it ,etc,edit splash screen with message so people read before thy have access to your website

The Forum post is edited by Pete Feb 20 '13
Pete
Pete Feb 20 '13

Log into your oxwall admin and click on Appearance,here is were you add new theme,edit your theme.

Pete
Pete Feb 20 '13

Customize home page

 

click on

 

 

then you need to click on

 

 

 

then you need to click edit and input your html ,or your links,etc,

 

 

 

then you need to save and drag the box onto your page were you want it.

 

 

To edit one of your boxes on main page you need to click on

 

The Forum post is edited by Pete Feb 20 '13
Pete
Pete Feb 20 '13

How to add an image to your main page,upload your image to your oxwall setup

 

then add this code to a box  <IMG SRC="http://www.yourdomain/image.gif" ALT="some text" WIDTH=32 HEIGHT=32>

 

To add picture without any tex

to make the picture show up on your page use the image source tag
<img src="http://www.yourdomain/picture.gif">
the picture will default to the left of your page if you want to center it use the align attribute
<img align="center" src="http://www.yourdomain/picture.gif">

you can also use
align="left" or align="right"

 

To add a link to your box

<a href="URL of link">Text to click on</a>

Where URL of link is where you put the URL to link to, and Text to click on is what you want your link to say (example "Click here").

You can also make it open in a new window, like so:

< a href="URL of link" target=_blank>Text to click on</a>

Or the same window (which is enabled by default, so you don't need to do this):

< a href="URL of link" target=_self>Text to click on</a>

Remember, you add tags to your link such as <font>, <b>, etc

 

You can also make your text scroll

 

You need to adjust the width (e.g. shown below as 200) to your own preference. So
depending on how much characters or words you have, you can insert accordingly
to replace the width. (The marquee tag only works with the Internet explorer broswer)

HTML Anchor Tag :

<marquee ALIGN="Top" LOOP="infinite" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" DIRECTION="left" HEIGHT=30 WIDTH=200>
Scrolling or Sliding Text here... </marquee>

Output :

Scrolling or Sliding Text here...

You can also make your text scroll to the right :

HTML Anchor Tag :

<marquee ALIGN="Top" LOOP="infinite" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" DIRECTION="right" HEIGHT=30 WIDTH=200>
Scrolling or Sliding Text here... </marquee>

Output :

Scrolling or Sliding Text here...

You can also make your text bounce back and forwards :

HTML Anchor Tag :

<marquee ALIGN="Top" LOOP="infinite" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" behavior=alternate>
Scrolling or Sliding Text here... </marquee>

Output :

Scrolling or Sliding Text here...

You can also make your text scroll up :

HTML Anchor Tag :

<marquee ALIGN="Top" LOOP="infinite" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" direction=up>
Text Scrolling up here... </marquee>

Output :

Text Scrolling up here...

You can also make your text scroll down :

HTML Anchor Tag :

<marquee ALIGN="Top" LOOP="infinite" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" direction=down>
Text Scrolling down here... </marquee>

Output :

Text Scrolling down here...



The Forum post is edited by Pete Feb 20 '13
Pete
Pete Feb 20 '13
If any members would like to add some screen shots of how to do it then please do so
Patrick
Patrick Feb 27 '13
Do you know how to set the splash page as the first page of the website? Meaning that I want returning visitors and members to always see the Splash as the first thing and then they can enter the site.
Pete
Pete Feb 28 '13
just click on pages &menus then splash screen ,the input your text that you want people to see ,i dont use my splash screen so i am unsure ,if returning visiters see it everytime thay visit your website