attempting manual install

in the instructions on this page http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DetailedInstall  it says this.....

Part 4: Run the Install Script

Using your favorite web browser, navigate to install/index.php within the directory into which you have just installed Dolphin on your web site:

• If you installed into a subdirectory called mycommunity, you would navigate tohttp://mysite.com/mycommunity/install/index.php
• If you installed into the root directory of your web site, you would openhttp://mysite.com/install/index.php

After this the installation instructions should appear in your browser's window. Follow them carefully to complete the installation. Here's a summary of the info you will have to specify:

but there is no install folder or install.php file so now what do I do. and there was me thinking setting up the database would be the hard bit. I down loaded the dolphin pack from Download Dolphin Pro 7.1.6

Latest stable version. Released on 28.05.2015.

where can i get the install file and why isn't it in the pack I just uploaded? am I installing the wrong thing?

 Voni, there is not an "install.php" file, the way it works is when you upload dolphin to the folder there will be an "install" folder, when you try to navigate to the home page, you get redirected to the install section.

The script looks for the "header.inc.php" file in the inc folder which is created  during the install.

If you got a home server

step 1..If you got phpmyadmin login..create a database by any name you like.

2. Go to browser, type IP of your server. Install page of dolphin will open.

3. All files of dolphin need to be on 777 permission.

4. Follow the script put the details. copy the cronjob text and add in terminal by command  "crontab -e" or if you got cpanel add it there.

5. change the permission of inc folder to 775

6. delete the install folder

there you go

i did that, I am onto 'paths check' but its asking me for 'If mogrify binary doesn't exist please install ImageMagick' so I clicked on the link for this imagemagick and it wants me to download something but its asking me to ' These are the Unix variations that we support. If your system is not on the list, try installing from source. '   what system is this? how am i supposed to know this? I can't install from source because its not there. 

Redhat / CentOS 5.11 i386 RPM

Redhat / CentOS 5.11 x86_64 RPM

Development, Perl, C++, and documentation RPM's.

Solaris Sparc 2.10

Cygwin

MinGW

are these the systems its giving me a choice of? if so how the heck am I supposed to know which one is mine?

how do i know if I have 'mogrify binary'   in the first place?

I can't move any further right now I am stuck on paths check :(

Are you showing "GD" installed? If so ImageMagick is not needed.

OMFG! 

2. If PHP is running as CGI on Unix systems all folders should have 755 permissions and all files should have 644 permissions, except for the ffmpeg.exe file, which should have 755 permissions.

To do this quickly, you can run the following commands when you're in the Dolphin installation folder under your SSH account:

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Do I have to manually chagne EVERY file on that instillation to 644? because there is hundreds of files and if i have to do that I am just going to delete the whole thing and install by softalucious

whats GD? where will that be?

 Well... If your not familiar with either than your in for a steep learning curve.

 Do you use, or can you install Team Viewer?

I'll show you some things.

Database host port number ? what is this and where is it? also Database socket path

 This may help...

https://youtu.be/YGaIuZRSz_A?t=437

but its not filling out the database host port or the database socket path on that video. Do I not need it?

First of all you need to give few details about your server setup. According to that we might help you. I personally use ubuntu 14.04 with nginx as a web server. You might be using Redhat i guess. you need to do a lot of googling on learning this..Just google how to install imagemagick on redhat or what ever your OS is.

I pretty sure she still has cPanel, phpMyAdmin front ends.

Voni, no the port is not needed. Did you watch that part of the video?

I have GD library already installed so i don't need it. I left the socket thing and the other because I just didn't know what it was so i left it blank. Now its telling me about the permissions for the files, but there is absolutely no a fricking chance in this entire world that I am going to set permissions for the hundreds of files in all those folders. So how do I change the permissions another way?

 you don't need it..just enter database name,user name mostly is "root" and the password

geeez now I have blank page when it asked me to reload to check for the writeable files. Why is this so hard to do??? This is way beyond my scope, I would much rather use the install from softalucous

plz tell us about your setup..In terminal its very easy to set the permission.

Command is chmod -R 777 /your/path/to/the/website 

all the files will be on 777 permission.

but i don't know how to do that.... also the installation page just disapeared, now I have a blank page where I was trying to install the things so what do I do now? do I have to delete all the files and reinstall? 

If you would do Team Viewer, you would learn once and be able to do again.

The auto installer does not always work correctly and sometimes the version is not current.

ok this is getting on my nerves! Its telling me to set inc folder to non-writeable and when I do the install.php stops working and I get a white screen, when I set it back to writeable and the install.php works again but it keeps telling me 

The following directories have inappropriate permissions:

   inc;

and I cant go any further. 

 its need to be on 775..just right click on the folder go to option and do it :/

I just skipped that step, and it worked. I suppose I better do those permissions if anyone can tell me exactly how to do it. 

1. If PHP is running as an Apache module on Unix systems- log into your shell account using your favorite shell client and change directories to that containing your Dolphin script files. Now run the following commands under your SSH prompt:

I have no idea what shell or SSH is.....

 On windows have you ever used command prompt? Dos like. Same kind of black window program is used to connect laptop to the server. so you don't actually need to sit in front of server. you can control your server from any where in the world with SSH program. Try Bitvise SSH client. It will allow you to upload all your files from your laptop to your server. If you know the IP address of the server. Plus it will open the black window where you can put commands( chmod -R 777 etc)

is there a way to do this is cpanal? if not i'll un-install and install via softalucous because this is way beyond what I can do. plus how can I set everything in the install folder to 644 when I took everything out of the install folder and out it in the main bit, if i chose to set my entire website to those setting it will break everything else like my other website that I have install in that directory.

also this.......

USING SHELL CLIENT

1. If PHP is running as an Apache module on Unix systems - log into your shell account using your favorite shell client and change directories to that containing your Dolphin script files. Now run the following commands under your SSH prompt:

chmod 777 ./inc ./backup ./cache ./cache_public ./langs ./media/app ./media/images ./media/images/banners ./media/images/blog ./media/images/classifieds ./media/images/membership ./media/images/profile ./media/images/profile_bg ./media/images/promo ./media/images/promo/original ./tmp ./plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer ./plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/HTML ./plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/CSS ./plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/Test ./plugins/htmlpurifier/standalone/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/URI 

chmod 777 ./flash/modules/board/files ./flash/modules/chat/files ./flash/modules/photo/files ./flash/modules/im/files ./flash/modules/mp3/files ./flash/modules/video/files ./flash/modules/video_comments/files

chmod 666 inc/prof.inc.php sitemap.xml

chmod 666 ./flash/modules/global/data/integration.dat ./flash/modules/board/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/board/xml/langs.xml ./flash/modules/board/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/board/xml/skins.xml ./flash/modules/chat/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/chat/xml/langs.xml ./flash/modules/chat/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/chat/xml/skins.xml ./flash/modules/desktop/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/desktop/xml/langs.xml ./flash/modules/desktop/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/desktop/xml/skins.xml ./flash/modules/global/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/global/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/im/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/im/xml/langs.xml ./flash/modules/im/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/im/xml/skins.xml ./flash/modules/mp3/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/mp3/xml/langs.xml ./flash/modules/mp3/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/mp3/xml/skins.xml ./flash/modules/photo/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/photo/xml/langs.xml ./flash/modules/photo/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/photo/xml/skins.xml ./flash/modules/video/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/video/xml/langs.xml ./flash/modules/video/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/video/xml/skins.xml ./flash/modules/video_comments/xml/config.xml ./flash/modules/video_comments/xml/langs.xml ./flash/modules/video_comments/xml/main.xml ./flash/modules/video_comments/xml/skins.xml
chmod 777 flash/modules/global/app/ffmpeg.exe

Note: all the other files in the Dolphin installation folder should have 644 permissions, and subfolders should have 755 permissions.

2. If PHP is running as CGI on Unix systems all folders should have 755 permissions and all files should have 644 permissions, except for the ffmpeg.exe file, which should have 755 permissions.

To do this quickly, you can run the following commands when you're in the Dolphin installation folder under your SSH account:

find ./ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
chmod 755 flash/modules/global/app/ffmpeg.exe;

3. If your site is to be installed on Windows, you don't need to change any permissions

I have no idea about Apache module on Unix systems? or  CGI on Unix systems ? how do I even know what or which one? Where does it tell me this information?

In cpanel go to the file manager. You will be able to see all the dolphin files and folder. Click on the the folder you want to change the permission. On top you will see the option to change the permission.

I know but there is hundreds of folders, sub folders and files, its going to be impossible to change all those manually its madness to expect someone to do that

i have sent you a pm check it plz. and answer the questions i have asked.

I replied, In fact all my folders and sub folders are already set to 755 and files to 644 and thats the same as my other dolphin instillation. so perhaps I don't really need to do anything?

I see a CGI-BIN in my folders does that mean I have CGI on Unix systems? and then don't need to set the permissions because they are all ready done?

I don't pay monthly I just give them a chunk of money and hoped for the best.

I will be happy to install it for you; however, it will be a few days before I could do so.  Rather busy at the moment.

There was an easy question asked by all sort of members , it never was answered :)

Are you on Shared host or Vps , or Dedicated server , or cloud ?

It could be easier if you let them know , this will save you all the hassle of installation :)

I managed the install, it was torture I have to admit but its done, thanks for the help guys. I guess now I can do it next time will be a breeze.

I suggest adding php, javascript, and managing a database to the items in your toolbox.