Install Instructions
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LimeTracker is a web publishing tool like WordPress that you install on your own webserver. We’ve deisgned LimeTracker to work on even the most modest shared hosting plans. All you need is the FTP program you’ve been using to upload files to your website. You don’t need a shell account.
Download the most recent version of LimeTracker from the Download page to get a file like limetracker-X.XX.zip. Unzip it to a folder on your hard drive. The folders and files with have paths like this:
C:\Downloads\limetracker\apps C:\Downloads\limetracker\cache ... C:\Downloads\limetracker\index.php C:\Downloads\limetracker\limetracker-assert.php C:\Downloads\limetracker\robots.txt C:\Downloads\limetracker\README.textile
If you don’t have an FTP program yet, try out FileZilla. Like LimeTracker, it’s free and open source.
Connect your FTP program to your webserver to upload files. Find the folder on your server that contains the HTML files of your website, and upload the limetracker folder there. For example, a server path like this:
/var/www/vhosts/yoursite.example.com/httpdocs/limetracker/README.textile
will become an address on your site like this:
http://yoursite.example.com/limetracker/README.textile
Now that all the folders and files are uploaded, we have to tell the server it’s OK to run and change some of them. On the right side of your FTP program, right click the cache folder to change its attributes. FileZilla names the menu item File Attributes…—look for that or something like that or Permissions, Change Mode, or CHMOD. In the dialog box, check all nine Read, Write, and Execute boxes to make the numeric value 777, like this:
Do that to these folders:
/var/www/vhosts/yoursite.example.com/httpdocs/limetracker/cache /var/www/vhosts/yoursite.example.com/httpdocs/limetracker/data /var/www/vhosts/yoursite.example.com/httpdocs/limetracker/json-cache /var/www/vhosts/yoursite.example.com/httpdocs/limetracker/log /var/www/vhosts/yoursite.example.com/httpdocs/limetracker/uploads
and in the data folder, this one file:
/var/www/vhosts/yoursite.example.com/httpdocs/limetracker/data/tracker.db
Navigate your web browser to index.php in the limetracker folder you uploaded. The whole address will be something like this:
http://yoursite.example.com/limetracker/index.php
Choose your password and sign in. Once inside, click New podcast to start your podcast!
If you run into any problems with these steps, we’re here to help.
Email podcasts [at] limewire [dot] com.