How to install script on localhost?

For localhost, you can for example (Windows guide): Install portable XAMPP Version 5.6.3 Create folder in (depends where you install xampp): C:\xampp\htdocs\mywebsite Extract archive to: C:\xampp\htdocs\mywebsite (Use 7zip, issues are possible with some archivers) Create empty file: C:\xampp\htdocs\mywebsite\install.txt Run XAMPP, Apache and MySQL In browser open phpMyAdmin: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ Databases->Create new “mywebsite” as attached screen Run […]

MySQLi version mismatch

Example issue: Message: mysqli::real_connect(): Headers and client library minor version mismatch. Headers:50550 Library:100029 Sounds like server issue. PHP and MySQL versions not compatible. Try this solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10759334/headers-and-client-library-minor-version-mismatch If this is localhost try with: For localhost, you can for example (Windows guide): Install portable XAMPP Version 5.6.3 Create folder in (depends where you install xampp): C:\xampp\htdocs\mywebsite

Sending email issues

Sending email doesn’t work on localhost, only on real server. If your server support mail function, you don’t need any special configuration. If your server doesn’t support mail function then you can use external smtp, details for configuration: http://iwinter.com.hr/support/?p=228 You need to change no-reply email address in admin->settings->system settings to real existing email address or […]

SEO optimizations and removing index.php

How to submit your page on google? Most simple way is to submit your generated sitemap.xml to google webmaster tools: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools Generated URL example: http://real-estate.iwinter.com.hr/sitemap.xml Regarding removing index.php: First of all this doesn’t work on standard localhost, only on real servers! If you want best seo principles like just content title in URL, without “index.php” […]

I receive invalid DB Connection String/ hostname / port

if you have problem with hostname, in standard hosting providers this should be localhost, but sometimes not and depends on hosting provider. Please ask your hosting provider which MySQL database hostname and port you should use for database access. You can also test your database details with this basic connection code to be sure that […]

How to move the portal script to another host / server?

First you should buy another hosting package for your website, my suggestion where everything is tested and works nice: Copy all files and export-import database via phpMyAdmin Manually configure database details in file application\config\production\database.php Check configuration file application\config\config.php, specially line 29 and line 41, sometimes you need change .htaccess file because of removing index.php or […]