Monthly Archive for October, 2009

How to Setup your Website on LimeDomains using Coppermine?

A multi-lingual, multi-purpose and integrated photo gallery web application—Coppermine—offers full multimedia support and enables users to upload pictures with web interface or ftp. This open source software, written in PHP and MySQL, facilitates arrangement of pictures in categories and albums and provides support for GD Graphics Library and ImageMagick. It’s also compatible with most web server software.

After you’ve purchased a domain name and a web hosting plan on our platform, the next step that you need to take for creating your image gallery is to install the application ‘Coppermine’. The steps to setup your website on LimeDomains using Coppermine image gallery are listed as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website

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Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

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Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of Control Panel in your account.

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Step 4: Select ‘Coppermine’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

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Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

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Step 6: Enter the admin username, password and email address. After that enter the database details. If you want Coppermine to use Imagemagick to generate thumbnails then you need to give the Imagemagick path. Click on ‘Let’s Go!’

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Step 7: Click on ‘Let’s Continue!’ If your installation in successful you will get the welcome message.

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Hey your Coppermine image gallery is successfully setup on LimeDomains now.

Start uploading pictures now!

How to Setup your Website on LimeDomains using Oscommerce?

A premier online shop e-commerce solution—Oscommerce—enables online store owners to create, run and maintain their online store with minimal endeavor and no involvement of cost, fees or any limitation.

Its powerful shipping settings inclusive of weight, price and destination based pricing, real-time quotes from FedEx, UPS etc. offer you the flexibility to provide your customers with customized pricing. Originally created by Harald Ponce de Leon, this software supports multilingual, multicurrency, offline payments along with support for shippable and downloadable products.

After purchasing a domain name and web hosting plan on our platform, setting up your website using this application is quite a simple task and completed in a few minutes time. The steps to setup your website on LimeDomains using Oscommerce are listed as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website

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Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

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Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of Control Panel in your account.

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Step 4: Select ‘Oscommerce’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

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Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

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Step 6: Check the server capabilities on the left hand side of the page and click on ‘Continue’.

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Step 7: Enter the database server, name, dbuser and password for connecting to the database. Click on ‘Continue’.

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Step 8: Enter the web address that the users would need to enter to connect to the online store as well as the web server root directory. Click on ‘Continue’.

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Step 9: Enter the Store and owner name and the email address associated with it. Click on ‘Continue’. The application gets successfully installed.

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Congratulations! Your Oscommerce website is successfully created on LimeDomains now.

Get started today!

How to Setup your Website on LimeDomains using Drupal?

An open source content management system—Drupal—enables users to manage, organize and publish content on the Web. This SEO friendly CMS, written in PHP, supports RSS feeds, Internet forums, multiple user accounts and can be run from any operating system. It is generally used to setup forums, polls, blogs, wikis etc.

Once you’re done with buying a domain name and a hosting plan on our platform, you can install this application in a few minutes and with great ease. The steps to setup your website on LimeDomains using Drupal are listed as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website.

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Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

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Step3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of ‘Control Panel’ in your account.

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Step 4: Select ‘Drupal’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

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Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation. Select the language of installation and check on the requirements and click on ‘Next’.

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Step 6: Go to Database Configuration page. Enter the database name, which was selected while installation and the required dbusername along with its password. Click on ‘Save and Continue’.

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Step 7: Enter the site name and its email address. Now enter the admin user name and an email address, which is same as site email by default. Click on ‘Save and Continue’.

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Step 8: Click on ‘Visit your new site’.

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Hey, your Drupal website is successfully created on LimeDomains now!

Get started today!

How to Set up your Website on LimeDomains using Joomla?

An award-winning software—Joomla—enables you to create/build and maintain dynamic websites. This great content management system (CMS) is beneficial for both technical and non-technical users. After you’ve purchased a domain name and a web hosting plan on our platform, you can install this application to manage the content of your website (in case you’re a non-technical user) and build large-scale online applications (if you’re a technical user).

The steps to setup your Joomla website on LimeDomains are enumerated as below:

Step 1: Log in to your LimeDomains account. Go to Control Panel -> Create Website.

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Step 2: Enter the details related to your domain name and hosting plan and proceed. A message that your website has been successfully created appears.

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Step 3: Click on ‘Applications’ tab under the ‘Hosting Management’ section of ‘Control Panel’ in your account.

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Step 4: Select ‘Joomla’ and click on the link of ‘Install’.

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Step 5: Click on ‘Installation URL’ tab on the ‘Application Management’ page after installation.

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Step 6: Select the language of installation and check on the requirements and click on ‘Next’. Go to Database Configuration page.

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Step 7: Input the database details and click on ‘Next’.

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Step 8: Enter the FTP layer if you wish to access the site using a FTP connection and click on ‘Next’.

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Step 9: Enter the site name and the necessary admin details. Click on ‘Install sample data’ if you wish to.

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Step 10: Remove the installation directory completely before continuing. Log in to the site with the required details.

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Congratulations! Your Joomla website is successfully created on LimeDomains now.

Get started today!