Hii Olagoo,
If you are using sNews 1.6,
There are only 4 steps to publish snews.
Follow this step :
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 )
**********************************
<IfModule mod_php4.c>
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>
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 .htaccessDone.
If everything is ok, you will get snews in your website ..... and start to configure yours ...
And do not forget send the money you promised to make Donation to this website ( snews ) and -
said thanks to all snews programmer.Daoush.
