This is an installation guide for Email Marketer, formerly SendStudio. Installation is an easy process. If you have any problems or errors during installation, please contact us here with details.

Contents

  1. Requirements
  2. Uploading Files
  3. File Permissions
  4. MySQL Database
  5. Setup Wizard

1. Requirements

Please ensure your web host meets the application requirements.

  • Linux, UNIX or variants preferred. Windows 2000 or higher (which support IIS 5 or above).
  • Apache 1.3.2 or above either on Linux, Unix or a variant or Windows. IIS 5 or above on a Windows server.
  • PHP v4.2.0 or above
  • MySQL v4.0 or above - or -
  • PostgreSQL v7.4 or above

2. Uploading Files

Unzip the Email Marketer package onto your local hard drive. If you don't have Winzip, you can download it for free here. Using an FTP program (such as Filezilla, which is free, or a commercial package such as CuteFTP), login to your web server and copy the Email Marketer files across into your base website directory. This directory is commonly called 'public_html', 'html', 'www' or 'website_html'. If you're not sure what it is, your web hosting provider will be able to tell you.

3. File Permissions

Email Marketer requires the following files/directories to have 'write' permissions set. If you're running on a Linux or Unix web host, you can use your FTP program and use the 'CHMOD' ('Change Mode') function to grant write permissions. If your host is running Windows, you will need to contact them about setting up write permissions on these files/folders. Also, if a folder listed here doesn't exist, please create it.

Files, CHMOD this file to 646:
  • /admin/includes/config.php
Note: Although it says 646, some webhosts may require 664 or 666 instead.

Folders, CHMOD these to757:
  • /admin/temp/
Note: Although it says 757, some webhosts may require 775 or 777 instead.

4. MySQL/PostgreSQL Database

Email Marketer makes use of a MySQL or PostgreSQL database to store your data. This database must be created before you run the Email Marketer installation wizard. Your database user account should also have full grant access to that database.

You will need the database connection details during the setup wizard.

Setting up your database may differ with your web host and what software they use for your web hosting control panel:

5. Setup Wizard

Email Marketer includes a simple one step installation process.

To start the setup wizard, navigate to the directory that you uploaded Email Marketer to, for example: http://www.yoursite.com/emailmarketer/. The Email Marketer set up wizard will appear. It contains the following fields:

  • License Key - Copy the license key you received when you purchased Email Marketer and paste it here.
  • Application URL- This is the URL to your Email Marketer installation (not your main website if this is in a sub folder)
  • Email Address - This is the email that will be used for the super admin user that will be created, also it will be the default contact email which can be changed later via your settings page.
  • Password & Confirm Password - This will become the password for your admin user. The username will be 'admin'.
  • Database Information - You will need your database username, password, database name and host (usually 'localhost', though this may vary with some hosts).
  • Send Server Configuration - This will send information about your server back to us. The data sent will be basic information such as your PHP version, MySQL version, etc. No information that can identify you or your website will be sent, it is completely anonymous. This will aid us in future development to know what versions of PHP and MySQL we can support among other things.

Your Email Marketer configuration details will now be saved into the admin/includes/config.php file. Your database tables will also been created.

Congratulations, you are now ready to login to the Email Marketer control panel and start adding content! Your control panel will be accessible by adding '/admin' onto the end of your website URL.