Thanks for Downloading the Firebase CMS.  For us the CMS stands for Corporate Management System and not just content management.

We loved the flexible power of CMS but the communities who put those out have no expertise in what is necessary to generate income from a business of any kind.

The Firebase site will automatically optimize each page to get you the best possible page ranks for your content.

Everyone needs money to survive as do we and our software being free to you is a challenge to ourselves to ensure that we are always doing our best to give you the best possible website.

We only make money when you get traffic.  QUALITY TRAFFIC. The rule of web businesses is that 1-5% of your Unique visitors will buy from you or take action on your site. (Join forums, talk, tell others, Bookmark your site- this is what we mean by action).  

Your new website will earn both you and us money from the other 99%.  The people who were not interested or were "Just Surfing".  Google took this approach with thier adwords box and trust me we don't have their coding staff but we were working on the idea long before.

You may have read how Yahoo is trying to figure out if they can intergrate their search with "Blogs" for an increase in income.  Well Here it is already built so you can tell others that they are the copy cats not us.

You will be paid 40% for every North-American, validated click that occurs from your website.  If we get 10cents you get 4cents.  We have heavy fraud protection in place to prevent "double clicks, proxy clicks, robotic, and/or repeative clicking)  You as an owner of a website wouldn't want to pay for this fraud and we won't ask anyone who wishes to advertise with you to do so either. 


Now to install:

Simply upload all your files to the www, public_html, or whatever your web hosts has setup for your web accessable folder.  If you need help with that then you need to contact your web host or ask for some help in our forums.  Someone will be happy to help you get started.

Once your files are on your server:

1. Now you need to Chmod two files and one folder to 666 

   /firebase_inc/firebase.user.conf.php
   /firebase_forums/config.php
   /firebase_images/

2. Create a MySql Database

   Every hosting platform is different you should contact your host as some like Cpanel have a 3 step process to getting a username and database as well as adding the new user to the database.

3. Go to your website
  
   You should be able to go to your website www.MySite.com  If you site hasn't propegated properly yet you should WAIT.  As our installation software will read where its at and if your using a temporary access it will setup your forums and site configuration incorrectly.

When you go to your website you should see a few fields to fill in.

Choose Your Admin Username >>>>> This will be your username make sure your Caps and spelling are exactly as you want them displayed.
 
Choose Your Admin Password >>>>> Avoid using weird characters @#$@#% Alpha-numeric only

Email >>>> This is the email you recieve at directly avoid AOL,Hotmail or Yahoo's if possible
 
What database to use? >>>> This is the name of the Database you setup
Db Username  >>>>> This is the Databases username Cpanels are unique like SITE_USER
Db Password >>>>> The password for your database user

4. Click and Go and lets get Going

   If you have access to your DB setup properly you should see a blink and your new website.  


5. Log into your website with the username and password you selected. You should be forwarded to your forums
6. Click Administration up in the TOP NAV bar.
7. Click on Configuration Manager
8. Setup your site name, Theme(leave for now),Description length(how long the news or blog descriptions are)
9. Set your Firebase Affiliate ID - Important if you want to be paid for using our software. We can't track what is owed to you otherwise.
10. Allowed HTML- This is important for those transfering from old websites. Our site will attempt to pull out all depricated code used by Microsoft Frontpage, E107,PHPNuke and others. You may need to add variables until you get a chance to clean up your content pages so they will be XHTML compliant and XML friendly.
11. Click on Category manager.
12. If you want to create a folder off your main page that is called a SITE LINK.
13. The Main is for Hard files. (Copy Main rename it and add the new name to your .htaccess for pages which may need unique processing{Rare})
14. Each one of your Categories automatically creates an RSS feed for that Category. This INSTANTLY creates links to your pages from companies like Complete RSS, Syndic8 and others.
15. You can create Categories UNDER other Categories up to 7 levels deep. Like Article/Authors/Best Writers/
16. You can use SPACES when creating Category names for People Friendly Navigation.
17. Once you have some Categories Create some content. News of course goes on the front page and a each article gets its own optimized page.
18. You can make any article the "INDEX" for that category. To describe that CAT or what every you choose.
19. 


Possible errors:

You will get an error about not using the proper database username and password.  Trust me the install software works if you see a db error there is a problem with your db username password or database.

If you get redirected to a page with no template or it looks scrambled.  You may of forgot to CHMOD the proper files check step 1.

So far that is the only two installation errors we have seen if you have another one.  Please contact us and let us look at it.

Other common errors like clicking a link and getting a page not found.  Reload your .htaccess file or contact your host for file override setting to be turned on in Apaches httpd.conf.  Our software is advanced enough that some hosts are not capable or willing to run it.  The use of the .htaccess file allows us to create the clean URL function that gives you better page ranks.  Your host can add the .htaccess lines directly to their httpd.conf file if they do not want to allow file override at a user level.

If all else fails and your P.O.ed at your hosting company Firebase offers hosting starting at $3 a month.  Our $5 plans rival most $49 plans.  Again its in our own best intrest that your site be successful.

Thanks

Firebase team

http://www.firebasesoftware.com








