Advance Poll 2.0, installation???

Hey okay, Im an idiot. I need a laymen's terms of the installation procedue. The readme.txt doesn't explain much except for chmod-ing but doesn't answer questions like, what directory to put it in and what files to put in. The cgi-bin? also I noticed that there are 2 folders a "db" and a "textfile". Both have narly identical files except i can see that the "textfile" folder is bigger. (approx 520 as apposed to approx 300). But please por favor, whatever, I really love this script and I would really appreciate a step-by-step instruction on installation. I know its asking alot but PLEASE!

Thanks... (hopefully)

Jay...

just choose one of the folters, db or text file and put it on (better db). Put it enywhere but not in cgi-bin (make new folder eg. phppoll) then chmod install.php to 755. after that just type in your browser url to your install.php(www.yoursite.com/phppoll/install.php). After that go to www.yoursite.com/phppoll/admin/index.php.

I have problems, too

I use the textfile version and I´m looking for the
install.php you told above, but there is no install.php
in any directory.

The Read me file tell me,
Goto the admin page -> http://www.yourdomain.com/poll/admin.php

but there is no admin.php anywhere

execute the admin/index.php I get the message:
Failed opening required '../include/config.inc.php' (include_path='') in is/htdocs/12345/www.my-domain.de/poll/admin/common.inc.php on line 10

whats wrong,
can anybody help me?

Hein

Hi again,
I searched on the web for another download of pollphp.

I found a version 1.7
And there is an admin.php included, but not in the
download of this side?

Install.php was also not found in the download version 1.7

I´ve also just downloaded the latest text-version but i can´t find this files (admin.php), too... 8O

The "admin.php" is in the subdirectory "admin". Then after you changed the permissions in your server you must tell Avanced Poll the right directories in general settings: In my case i installed the poll in /poll :the path settings then are ../ for URL to poll directory and ../image for URL to image directory. Now it works.

OK, in the admin directory is the admin_index.php.
Have I to rename this to admin.php and to copy
in the directory /poll ??
But there is no original admin.php anywhere.

I am having the same problem. Did anyone find a solution to thus ?

8O I have the same problem.I use the text version, but I don´t found admin.php file

Tengo el mismo problema.Uso la version de texto, pero no encuentro el fichero admin.php

I also am missing he files mentioned above! Any solution to this yet??

*bump*

In the admin folder use index.php. That will take you to the login for the admin control panel.

Alright, that gets you into the set up script, but the images don't load because it's probably expecting the index.php / admin.php or whatever to be in the root of the poll directory, not /admin.

What needs modifying to get the images to load, it's all a bit pointless without them.

go to index.php en start it than go to General Settings
en whrite the right URL to poll directory same by URL to image directory
en you wil get your image back

Ok, I had the same problems.

First of all, you only upload either the db or the textfile copy to your server. It just depends on which one you want to use. db requires that your server have MySQL 3.2x or PostgreSQL AND PHP3 or PHP4 installed. The textfile version only requires PHP3 or PHP4.

Secondly, there is no admin.php file. There is only an index.php file in the admin folder. So, once you have all the files uploaded to you server and chmod them all correctly, then you open your browser and go to the directory where you put your files, for example:

http://www.yourdomain.com/polls/admin/index.php

This will take you to the login screen, where you can log in for the first time with admin//poll as the username and password.

Once you are in, you need to immediately change the username and password to something other than the defaults.

Lastly, there is the issue of the image files not showing up. That is because the programmer put in default paths to the images.
I beleive it was something like:

/~poll/phppoll/image/

...but I don't remember exactly. So, the reason the images are not showing up is because these images are not in that directory. They are in the directory that YOU created on your server. You simply need to correct the paths by going to the general settings tab and filling out the "URL to poll directory" and "URL to image directory" fields. Replace the defaults paths in these two fields with the correct paths (the ones you created on your server).

That should do it the trick.