Re: [phpOpenTracker-User] installing phpopentracker

Wyck and Meg Moody wrote:
> I hope you don't mind a question from a newbie.I am having difficulty 
> installing phpOpenTracker.

Questions are always welcomed :)

> Pear is not installed on my account so I am attempting to install by 
> hand. I unpacked the .gz file with:

No Pear, bummer, it will make installing some of the plugins and other
packages more of a pain then it needs to be.

> tar  xvzf phpOpenTracker-1.2.2.gz.

Make sure you untarred into a directory that is in your php include path.

>But after this point, I am not sure what to do next.

Now you need to start logging. Are you going to directly embed
phpOpenTracker into your pages for logging or use the web-bug?

> For example, I am not sure what url I should enter to access the 
> phpOpenTracker install?

What do you mean by install? There is no 'install'. Once you have
installed phpOpenTracker you need to start logging. To log document
requests using the direct embedding technique  have a look at
http://www.phpopentracker.de/docs/en/installation.setup.html Listing 2.1

> I intend to use the software (invoked as a web beacon) on another site. 
> Is there anything special I need to do to set this up?

Sorry, I don't know what a web beacon is ...

> I realize these answers are probably in the manual, but out of ignorance 
> I don't understand them.

The documentation is good but it can be a bit hard to understand at
first. Hope what I gave you helps.

Jean-Christian Imbeault



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