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Registration and Installation step by step
| Article ID | : | #10 |
| Version | : | 1.4 |
| Last Review | : | April 15, 2006 |
PROBLEM
Experianced programmers and web developers will not have any trouble setting up their website to join the IndexGuy network. In fact most of the un-experianced webmasters find it easy to do that. However there are people that still find it difficult to do that.
RESOLUTION
- Visit http://www.indexguy.com/sign-up.cfm to sign up. It's totally free.
- Enter your details to the provided form.
- Most people seem to have difficulty in choosing a 'Supported Platform'. This will happen is if you have no clue about web programming. In this case you need to find out which programming language your server supports. There are two ways to detect this. Visit your website. Click on some links. If you see an extention .php on the end of your URL address then you have full support for PHP. If you see a .asp then you have support for ASP and if you see a .cfm then your server supports ColdFusion (CFML). If you see a .pl or a .cgi then your server supports PERL. The easiest way to find out is to ask your hosting company. Finally, if you only see a .html or .htm then it's possible that you don't have support for any programming languages. But you have to confirm this with your hosting company, as most of the times all the servers support at least one of the above languages!
- Click sign up.
Now, if you are a 'paid' member, you are done! Just email us at sales@indexguy.com with your username and your order number so that we can proceed with your activation of your account. To get a username follow the steps 1--4 above. To get an order number visit the IndexShop, choose one of our products and click 'Buy Now'. You will proceed to our check-out form where you will need to submit your payment.
If you are 'free' member, follow the next steps:
- Copy & Paste into a text file the code which appears, after your have clicked 'sign-up' in the registration form.
- Upload the text file into your server. Name it anything you like, but make sure to give the correct extention. For PHP (filename.php), for ASP (filename.asp), for CFML (filename.cfm) and for PERL (filename.pl)
- Now, edit your homepage with your favourite editor. This can also done with Frontpage, Dreamweaver or even Notepad. Create a hyperlink pointing to your just-uploaded file. This could be href="http://www.yourwebsite.com/filename.asp", where '.asp' has to be replaced accordinghly.
- Save your homepage and you are done!
Now visit http://www.indexguy.com/login/ and login using your username/password. Click the 'My Status' button and enter the full address of the URL of the file where you have placed the generated code. This would be http://www.yourwebsite.com/filename.asp where .asp should be replaced with the correct extention.
Click 'Activate' and you are finished!
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