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Creative News 4
anmlogo1.gif (1991 bytes) Price: $299.99 US Dollars
Version:
4.0
Platform:
Runs on: Unix / Linux, 
(Win NT/2000/XP) with Apache. 
Accessible from any web browser. 

Creative News Information Links:

:: Home :: Demonstrations - News Search, News Management Console

How to Guide Links:

:: Home :: Categories* :: Design Templates :: Installation* :: News Pages* :: News Search :: News Options* :: Trouble Shooting :: User Accounts* :: PDF How to Guide

How to: Installation

Upload Files and Set Permissions

Unzip the file you received upon purchase of Creative News. This is a zipped file that requires a decompression utility such as Winzip.

After you have decompressed the zipped file, open the file 'anm3.8.pl'. Edit the first line of this file and change it to your path to perl. The most common path to perl is '#!/usr/bin/perl'.

Next upload 'anm3.8.pl', 'cgi-lib.pl', 'upload.pl' to your cgi-bin folder ( you can use a different folder if your server allows it). Change the permissions for the three files to '755' (Owner: Read, Write and Execute; Group: Read and Execute; Other: Read and Execute).

Now create a folder in the cgi-bin directory, name the folder 'anm3.8data'. Next upload the following files into the 'anm3.8data' folder in ASCII mode:

config.packed
designtemplates.html
info.packed
template.html
tools.html
anm3.8.r1.lib
news.si
users.packed
logins.packed

Change the permissions on all of the .packed and .html files to '766'. (Owner: Read, Write and Execute; Group: Read and Write; Other: Read and Write).

Next, read the section 'User Accounts', to change the default password.

Important Information:

The file 'template.html' stored in the directory 'anm3.8data' is used by Creative News for all news searches, and archive browsing. There is only one required marker for this template, '[[anm]]'.  You can create your own template.html, and place the '[[anm]]' marker anywhere in the HTML file. Active News Manager will replace this maker with the news search results.