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COMPLETE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

| Unzip the archive and upload the files to your web server.

| Change the file's permissions as follows:

On *nix operating system:

- 755 on Afian's program files and folders
- 777 on the following:
  - /PATH_TO_AFIAN/system/data/setup.dat
  - /PATH_TO_AFIAN/system/data/logsarchive
  - /PATH_TO_AFIAN/system/data/trash - (recursive)
  - /PATH_TO_AFIAN/system/data/temp - (recursive)

On MS Windows:

- uncheck Read-Only flag on the following:
  - /PATH_TO_AFIAN/system/data/setup.dat
  - /PATH_TO_AFIAN/system/data/logsarchive
  - /PATH_TO_AFIAN/system/data/trash - (recursive)
  - /PATH_TO_AFIAN/system/data/temp - (recursive)

| Go with a Web browser to: http://www.YOURDOMAIN.COM/WEB-PATH-TO-AFIAN/ (Replace with your data)

| Follow the information on screen to set the required settings. Choose a home folder for your first user - "admin". CHOOSING HOME FOLDERS A "home folder" is a folder on the hard disks of your Web server. Example 1 (if your server runs Windows):
c:/sites/afian/users/admin/ (Note: do not use backslashes)
Example 2 (if your server runs Unix):
/www/html/afian/users/admin/
Note: If you're installing Afian on a hosting service, your actual system path may be similar to: /home/virtual/yoursite.com/var/www/html/afian/

| Log in for the first time with username: "admin", and password: "admin". Remember to change the default password for the "admin" user!

IMPORTANT SECURITY TIP

When you set home folders to users, please make sure that they are not in a path where people can run CGI scripts over the web (inside your /public_html or /www directory). Otherwise, you incur the risk of having one of your Afian users upload another browsing utility on your Web site and using it to view private areas of your server.

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