This section of the guide is for those who are familiar with setting up and administrating web servers (IIS and/or APACHE are recommended). You should also be familiar with installing and configuring the server with PHP. PHP can be downloaded from www.php.net.

Anywhere Together Software built its applications based on their PHP sniPEAR Open Source Framework.

System Prerequisites

The system should be running PHP5.0.3 or later.  For web server software, the following is recommended: IIS5.0 or later or Apache 2.0  or later. Apache can be downloaded from www.apache.org.

Note: Our software is protected by third party encoding software that must be installed on the server

If the web server is running in threaded mode then the php.ini file should be accessible, as it will need to be updated to include the encoding extensions. These extensions are used to run certain encrypted files.

To check how your system is running install the software and, through your browser, navigate to the

“installpath>/filestogether/ioncube/ ioncube-loader-helper.php”. This will advise you how to install the loader extensions on your server should that be required.

PHP

Our automated install will put the correct ioncube loader dll onto your machine (where possible) in the php ext folder (If doing a manual install then the correct loader dll will have to be copied here manually from the ioncube folder). It does NOT update the php.ini file. This must be done manually by a system administrator.

Either dynamic loading must be enabled on the system (Off by default)

enable_dl = On

of the following line should be added in

zend_extension_ts=therelevantloaderfile.dll/so

(Launch the location "filestogether/ioncube/ioncube-loader-helper.php" in your browser after installation for instructions on installing the relevent loader)

See www.ioncube.com for details of how their loader software works and for complete list of loaders available.

Platform

Windows

Unzip the package to your server. It is recommended that you do this under the "c:\program files" folder.  This the path used by

the examples and initial system defaults.

Linux

Unzip the package to your server.

Extract the file zip contents to a folder on your server

You should have downloaded this zip file from the web site http://www.anywheretogether.com

Apache web server configuration

Insert the following (with the appropriate <installpath> set) into your apache configuration file (httpd.conf).  You may need to re-start the apache web server for the settings to take effect. 

You do NOT need to insert any of the comments:

(apache comment lines begin with a #)

Security Note: The configuration also prevents the ini files from being downloaded and it is recommended that this is maintained and checked.

Alias /filestogether "<installpath>\anywheretogether\applications\filestogether"

#

# Example

#Alias /filestogether "C:\Program Files\anywheretogether\applications\filestogether"

<Directory "<installpath>\anywheretogether\applications\filestogether">

   <FilesMatch \.(?i:ini|INI)$>

     Order allow,deny

     Deny from all

   </FilesMatch>

   Options MultiViews

   DirectoryIndex index.php

   Order allow,deny

   Allow from all

</Directory>

#

# Example

#<Directory "C:\Program Files\anywheretogether\applications\filestogether">

#   <FilesMatch \.(?i:ini|INI)$>

#     Order allow,deny

#     Deny from all

#   </FilesMatch>

#   Options MultiViews

#   DirectoryIndex index.php

#   Order allow,deny

#   Allow from all

#</Directory>

#

IIS web server configuration

• Open up IIS Management console and create a new Virtual Folder.

• Click Next.

• Browse to the folderw to which you unzipped the install files.

• Click Next.

• Check the “Execute (such as ISAPI applications or CTI).

• Click Next.

• Click Finish.

Next you need to set the default page for the virtual folder, as follows:

• Right click on our new virtual folder and open the properties.
  
  
• Click on the “Documents” tab.

From here add in the “filestogether.php” file.

• Click OK.

Finally you need to allow the IIS user (IUSR_machinename) permissions to update the files together settings folder.  This is the <installpath>anywheretogether/settings/filestogether folder.

• Open the properties of the above folder and click “Add...”.

• Find your IIS user, add them in and allow “Full control” on the folder.  This is required as the ini files must be updated by the system.

See also here for additional IIS configuration.

Your system is now set up.