Download Tracker installation documentation

Help for setting up the Download Tracker script.

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Version

Program Name : Download Tracker
Version : 1.06
Last Modified : 20 Mar 2008
Made : Hand made


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Features

Option for asking for email.
Count the downloads.
Anti leach system.
Logs info about the ones who are leaching.
The download script is templates driven (for own design).
Displaying from the top 5, 10, 20... downloads.
Administration control panel.
Updating from the links.
Custom header and footer.
And much more...


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System Requirements

A unix (linux) web server.
Perl Version 5 or higher.
A web server that is compatible with Apache version 1.3 or higher (most are).
A web page that allows custom CGI.
A program on the web server like sendmail.


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Installation and Configuration

Open the admin.pl and down.pl files with your favorite text editor.
And look for the line.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
If needed change the path to Perl.

Make a directory in your cgi-bin directory something like download. Upload everything in the same context to your /cgi-bin/download directory. Upload everything in ASCII mode except the images upload the images in BIN mode (be sure of that other why the script is not working).

Note : For the Windows users. Auto detect is many times not good working.

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Files and Permissions

For the /download directory chmod 777
For the /download/data directory chmod 777
For the /download/data/templates directory chmod 777

For the admin.pl file chmod 755
For the down.pl file chmod 755
For the main.cfg file chmod 666


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Main Config

Open the main.cfg in your favorite text editor.
And follow the instructions in the file.

open the admin.pl and look for the lines.
$username="root";
$password="roots";
Change it in your user name and password


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Configuring your Web Page

If you want to download a file you need first to add a file with the admin.pl.
Open your admin.pl in a browser and go to add file.

Add a title : example: Download Tracker
Add a file : example: http://www.yourhost.com/dltr.zip

push add link

The URL you need to add on the web page as a link is looks like:
<a href=http://widexl.com/cgi-bin/down/down.pl?ID=1>your file</a>

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Display the top 5, 10, 20... downloads.

For to display the top 5, 10, 20... downloads in a web page, you need to have SSI (Server Side Include) enabled on your web site. Add on the place where you want to display the top downloads the follow tag.

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?top=5&h=1" -->

Change the /cgi-bin/download/down.pl to the URI from your down.pl script. You can change the '5' in the number of top downloads that you like to display.

A other way for to display the top 5, 10, 20... downloads is to open the script in a browser. Open the script in a browser with the follow URL.

http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl?top=5

Change the http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/download/down.pl to the URL from your down.pl script. You can change the '5' in the number of top downloads that you like to display.


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Copyright Information

Copyright © 2000. Henk Boonstra. All Rights Reserved.

This Version is a Freeware release.
It is free to use for particular purpose, non-profit and commercial organizations.

You can change or modify this script it as you want it. However, modified versions cannot be sold or distributed. You cannot alter the copyright and "powered by" notices throughout the scripts. These notices must be clearly visible to the end users. By using this program you agree to conditions above.


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Warranty Disclaimer

THIS PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED IN THE HOPE THAT IT WILL BE USEFUL, BUT WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. WITHOUT EVEN THE IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


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