Detailed installation instructions

​Installations instructions for Dolphin 7.0 can be found ​here

Step 1: Download and Extract

​Download and unzip the Dolphin package.

• If you are going to upload Dolphin to a remote web server, download it to your computer using a web browser and unzip the package into some folder on your local computer.

• If you have shell access to your web server (for UNIX systems), you may wish to download the Dolphin archive directly to your web server using the wget command.

wget http://get.boonex.com/Dolphin-v.6.1

• Then you will be able to unzip the package under your shell account using the following command:

unzip -d Dolphin-v.6.1.6.zip

• Thus, the Dolphin package will be extracted into the folder called Dolphin-v.6.1.6 in the same directory where you have uploaded Dolphin-v.6.1.6.zip.

• For those installing this package on Windows, you will also need to download ​ffmpeg (media converter for Windows), unpack and upload it in ray/modules/global/app overwriting the Linux version located there.

Change ffmpeg.exe permissions to executable.

• If you're installing the package on FreeBSD, you will need to download ​ffmpeg (media converter for FreeBSD), unpack and upload it in the ray/modules/global/app folder. Remove the ffmpeg.exe file which is already there and rename the ffmpeg file to ffmpeg.exe.

Change ffmpeg.exe permissions to executable.

Please contact support@… if you have any problems with your installation.

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Step 2: Create a Database and a User

Using CPanel

If your hosting provider has cPanel, you can follow these instructions to create your Dolphin database and user.

1. Log in to your cPanel.

2. Click MySQL Databases.

3. Create a database user:

1. Choose a username for Dolphin (for example "dolphin") and enter it in the Username field.

2. Choose a difficult-to-guess password (ideally containing a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols), and input it into the Password field.

3. Click Create user.

4. Create a Dolphin database and add the user to it:

1. Choose a name for your Dolphin database (for example "dolphin" or "community"), input it in the New Database field and click Create Database.

2. Under Add Users To Your Database, select your Dolphin username from the User dropdown list, then select your Dolphin database from the Database dropdown list. Make sure ALL is checked under Privileges, then click Add User To Database.

5. When you return to the main MySQL Account Maintenance screen, cPanel will list information about the database you just created. You should see the username you just added to the database (with ALL PRIVILEGES), as well as a few sample Connection Strings for you to use in Perl or PHP scripts to connect to the database. The PHP code will have the following format:

   $dbh = mysql_connect("hostname", "username", "<PASSWORD HERE>") or die ("message");
   mysql_select_db("databasename");
   
   

Write down the values of hostname, username, databasename, and the password you have chosen. (Note that hostname will usually be localhost.)

Using phpMyAdmin

If your web server has phpMyAdmin installed, and you are logged in as the MySQL administrator, you can follow these instructions to create your Dolphin username and database.

Note: These instructions are written for phpMyAdmin 2.6.1; the phpMyAdmin user interface can vary slightly between versions.

1. Create a database:

1. Choose a name for your Dolphin database (for example "dolphin" or "mycommunity"), enter it in the Create new database field and click Create.

2. Click the Home icon in the upper left to return to the main page, then click Privileges and follow these steps tp create a user:

1. Click Add a new User.

2. Chose a user name for Dolphin (for example "dolphin") and enter it in the User name field (make sure Use text field: is selected from the dropdown list).

3. Leave the Host field blank.

4. Choose a difficult-to-guess password (ideally containing a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols), and enter it in the Password field (make sure Use text field: is selected from the dropdown list.) Re-enter the password in the Re-type field.

3. Write down the username and password you have chosen.

4. Leave the default values for the Global privileges section.

5. Click Go.

2. Return to the Privileges screen and click the Edit privileges icon on the user you've just created for Dolphin. In the Database-specific privileges section, select the database you've just created for Dolphin from the Add privileges to the following database dropdown list. The page will refresh with privileges for that database. Click Check All to select all privileges, and click Go.

3. On the resulting page, make note of the host name listed after Server: at the top of the page. (This will usually be localhost.)

Using MySQL Client

If you have shell access to your web server, and your MySQL user has the permissions to create MySQL users and databases, you can follow the sample session below to create your Dolphin username and database.

$ mysql -u adminusername -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 5340 to server version: 3.23.54
 
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.
 
mysql> CREATE DATABASE databasename;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
 
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON databasename.* TO "dolphinusername"@"hostname" IDENTIFIED BY "password";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
  
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> EXIT
Bye
$ 

In the above:

• adminusername will typically be root, unless you want to specify a different privileged account.

• dolphin or mycommunity can be sample values for databasename.

• dolphin can be a sample value for dolphinusername.

• hostname will usually be localhost. If you don't know what this value should be, refer to your system administrator.

• password should be a difficult-to-guess password, ideally containing a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols.

Write down the values you used for databasename, dolphinusername, hostname, and password.

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Step 3: Place the files

Now you will need to decide where on your web site Dolphin script should be installed. These are possible options:

• In the root directory of your web site. (For example, ​http://mysite.com/)
• In a subdirectory of your web site. (For example, ​http://mysite.com/mycommunity/)

Note: The location of your root web directory in the filesystem on your web server will vary across hosting providers and operating systems. Check with your hosting provider or system administrator if you do not know where this is.

In the Root Directory

• If you need to upload your files into your web server, use your favorite FTP client to upload all the contents of the Dolphin-v.6.1.6.zip archive into the root directory of your web site.
• If your files are already on your web server, and you are using shell access to install Dolphin, move all of the contents of the Dolphin-v.6.1.6 directory (but not the directory itself) into the root directory of your web site.

In a Subdirectory

• If you need to upload your files into your web server, create a directory with your desired name in the root directory of your web site, then use your favorite FTP client to upload the contents of Dolphin-v.6.1.6.zip archive into the created directory.
• If your files are already on your web server, and you are using shell access to install Dolphin, move the Dolphin-v.6.1.6 directory to your desired location within the root directory of your web site and rename the directory to your desired name.

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Step 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 to ​http://mysite.com/mycommunity/install/index.php
• If you installed into the root directory of your web site, you would open ​http://mysite.com/install/index.php

After this the installation instruction 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:

Permissions

On the first page of the install process you can see the files and folders whose permissions should be properly set up.

There are the following ways to do this:

1) If PHP is running as an Apache module on Unix systems

• Using a shell client.

Log into your shell account using your favorite shell client and change directory for that which contains your Dolphin script files. Now run the following commands under your SSH prompt:

chmod 777 ./backup ./cache ./groups/gallery ./groups/orca/cachejs ./groups/orca/classes ./groups/orca/js ./groups/orca/layout ./groups/orca/log ./inc ./langs ./media/images ./media/images/banners ./media/images/blog ./media/images/classifieds ./media/images/gallery ./media/images/profile ./media/images/profile_bg ./media/images/promo ./media/images/promo/original ./media/images/sdating ./media/images/sharingImages ./media/sound ./media/video ./orca/cachejs ./orca/classes ./orca/conf ./orca/js ./orca/layout ./orca/log ./periodic ./tmp

chmod 777 ./ray/modules/board/files ./ray/modules/chat/files ./ray/modules/im/files ./ray/modules/movie/files ./ray/modules/mp3/files ./ray/modules/music/files ./ray/modules/global/app/ffmpeg.exe

chmod 666 ./inc/db_cached/MenuContent.inc ./inc/db_cached/PageView.inc ./inc/db_cached/ProfileFields.inc ./inc/db_cached/SiteStat.inc ./inc/params.inc.php ./inc/prof.inc.php ./periodic/cmd.php ./periodic/cupid.php ./periodic/notifies.php

chmod 666 ./ray/modules/board/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/board/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/board/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/board/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/chat/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/chat/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/chat/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/chat/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/desktop/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/desktop/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/desktop/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/desktop/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/global/data/integration.dat ./ray/modules/global/inc/cron.inc.php ./ray/modules/global/inc/header.inc.php ./ray/modules/global/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/global/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/im/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/im/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/im/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/im/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/movie/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/movie/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/movie/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/movie/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/mp3/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/mp3/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/mp3/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/mp3/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/music/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/music/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/music/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/music/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/presence/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/presence/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/presence/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/presence/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/shoutbox/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/shoutbox/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/shoutbox/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/shoutbox/xml/skins.xml ./ray/modules/video/xml/config.xml ./ray/modules/video/xml/langs.xml ./ray/modules/video/xml/main.xml ./ray/modules/video/xml/skins.xml

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

• Using an FTP client.

Log into your FTP account using your favorite FTP client and navigate to the folder in which you uploaded the contents of the Dolphin-v.6.1.6.zip archive. Now run the same commands as in the previous paragraph but replacing chmod with SITE CHMOD and placing every file or folder on a separate line, for example:

SITE CHMOD 777 ./backup
SITE CHMOD 777 ./cache
SITE CHMOD 777 ./groups/gallery
SITE CHMOD 777 ./groups/orca/cachejs
SITE CHMOD 777 ./groups/orca/classes
SITE CHMOD 666 ./ray/modules/board/xml/config.xml

2) If PHP is running as CGI on Unix systems

In this case 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 ray/modules/global/app/ffmpeg.exe;

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

After all permissions are correctly set, click Next to continue.

Script Paths

On the second page of the install you will have to indicate the necessary paths demanded by the script. Here they are:

• Site URL: here you should indicate the URL of your Dolphin folder including "http", such as:
  ​http://mysite.com/mycommunity/
  (this path is usually properly determined by the installation script but you still should double check)

• Directory root: this should be the server absolute path to the Dolphin folder, such as:

  /home/myaccount/public_html/mycommunity/
  

(on Unix systems) or

C:/webservers/home/myaccount/www/mycommunity/

(on Windows systems)

This path is usually properly determined by the installation script but you still should double check.

• Path to php binary: here you should indicate the absolute path to php executable file on your server, such as:

  /usr/local/bin/php 
  

(on Unix systems) or

C:/php/php.exe 

(on Windows systems).

This executable will be used to run crons (periodic tasks).

• Path to mogrify, Path to convert and Path to composite: these paths indicate the location of ​'ImageMagick' applications, which will be necessary if php running on your server is not compiled with ​'GD library';

Imagemagick is just an alternative for GD - image processing application;

if PHP is compiled with GD library and you're not going to use ​'ImageMagick' with Dolphin, you can omit these steps and keep the default values.

The real paths can be as follows:

/usr/local/bin/mogrify
/usr/local/bin/convert
/usr/local/bin/composite

• Check GD installed: this field shows whether GD library is installed or not

Click Next to continue.

Database Credentials

On the third page you will have to specify the database information:

• SQL file: this is the relative path to the database creation file, which is determined by default. If your file resides in a different directory, you should indicate its relative path here. The base folder of the path is considered to be the Dolphin installation folder.

• Empty database: choose "yes" or "no". Choosing "yes" will empty the whole database, i.e. removes its tables. Think twice before choosing this option. The option "no" is the default option and will make no harm to your database.

• Empty tables: choose "yes" or "no". Choosing "yes" will empty all the tables in the database while keeping the tables structure intact. The default option is "yes" and you shouldn't make any changes here.

• Database host name: here you should indicate the host name of your database, which is usually 'localhost'. Refer to the notes you made during database creation.

• Database name, Database user and Database password: here you should indicate the name of the database and the user requisites you created in the Step 2. Again, refer to the notes you made when creating the database and the user.

Click Next to continue.

General Site Configuration

On this page you will have to set up General Site Configuration:

• Site Title/Logo?: this is a word or phrase which will be displayed on the title bar of your web browser

• Site e-mail: indicate the email which will be used for getting info about purchased memberships, mass mailer's status, spam reports, and requests for canceling subscriptions.

• Notify e-mail: indicate the email address which will be shown in the "From" field of cupid and mass mails as well as profiles confirmation and activation messages.

• Bug report email: indicate the email address to collecting MySQL bug reports for subsequent debugging.

• Set Admin Login information - you should choose the login and password for your Administration Panel.

To enter your Administration panel please use the following URL:

http://www.mysitedomain.com/admin/ - where http://www.mysitedomain.com/ is your actual domain.

If you are installing Dolphin in a sub-directory then the URL will be:

http://www.mysitedomain.com/sub-directory/admin/.

To login to the Administration Panel you should use the information which you have appointed above.

Setting up Cron jobs

If you made the previous steps correctly, the next step will guide you through the setting cron jobs.

To set up cron jobs, use one of the following ways:

For UNIX:

1. Using CPanel:

1. Click the Cron Jobs link under your CPanel account and choose Advanced (Linux Style)

2. Indicate the email address for collecting information about cron execution

3. Return to the Dolphin installation page and copy the first command to be run as cron (omitting the zeros and asterisks), for example:

   /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/localhost/www/d611/periodic/cmd.php
   

and insert it into the first field of your CPanel cron jobs management page schedule the time for this job, which also can be fetched from the Dolphin installation page, such as:

0 0 * * * (which means: run the script every midnight)

4. Apply the changes and click Back to return to the Cron Management page

5. Do the same for the second cron script:

   /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/localhost/www/d611/periodic/notifies.php
   
   

and schedule the time for it:

*/10 * * * * (which means: run the script every 10 minutes)

6. Do the same for the third cron script:

   /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/localhost/www/d611/periodic/cupid.php
   
   

   and schedule the time for it:

   * */1 * * * (which means: run the script every 1 hour)
   

2. Using shell (for experienced users): run the following command

   crontab -e
   

This will open your default text editor, where you will have to insert the three lines of code to be executed:

MAILTO=myemail@mysite.com
0 0 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/localhost/www/d611/periodic/cmd.php
*/10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/localhost/www/d611/periodic/notifies.php
* */1 * * * /usr/local/bin/php -q /home/localhost/www/d611/periodic/cupid.php

Save the file and exit the editor.

Hint: The above lines serve as an example. The actual Cron Job commands are generated by the script at the 6th step of the installation process. And you can easily copy&paste them into the "crontab" file.

For WINDOWS:

1) create batch files for every cron you wish to create. For example:
c:\wamp\www\periodic\cmd.bat
c:\wamp\www\periodic\notifies.bat
c:\wamp\www\periodic\cupid.bat

This are sample contents of the above mentioned files:

c:\wamp\www\periodic\cmd.bat:

c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\php.exe -f c:\wamp\www\periodic\cmd.php

c:\wamp\www\periodic\notifies.bat:

c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\php.exe -f c:\wamp\www\periodic\notifies.php

c:\wamp\www\periodic\cupid.bat:

c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.2.6\php.exe -f c:\wamp\www\periodic\cupid.php

2) then assign crons for these files this way:

schtasks /Create /tn cmd_cron /sc DAILY /st 00:00:00 /tr c:\wamp\www\periodic\cmd.bat (to run every day at midnight)
schtasks /Create /tn notifies_cron /sc MINUTE /mo 10 /tr c:\wamp\www\periodic\notifies.bat (to run every 10 minutes)
schtasks /Create /tn cupid_cron /sc HOURLY /mo 1 /tr c:\wamp\www\periodic\cupid.bat (to run every 1 hour)

Permission Reversal

Now you should set the post-installation permissions and after delete the install folder.

• Using FTP client.

Log into your FTP account using your favorite FTP client and navigate to the folder in which you have installed Dolphin script.

Run the following commands:

SITE CHMOD 755 ./inc
SITE CHMOD 755 ./periodic
SITE CHMOD 644 ./periodic/cmd.php
SITE CHMOD 644 ./periodic/notifies.php
SITE CHMOD 644 ./periodic/cupid.php
SITE CHMOD 644 ./periodic/tags.php
SITE CHMOD 644 ./ray/modules/global/inc/header.inc.php

• Using shell client.

Log into your shell account using your favorite shell client and change directory for that which contains your installed Dolphin script. Now run the following commands under your SSH prompt:

chmod 755 ./inc ./periodic
chmod 644  ./periodic/cmd.php ./periodic/notifies.php ./periodic/cupid.php ./ray/modules/global/inc/header.inc.php

Note: If your PHP is installed as CGI or your server's OS is Windows, you can Skip this window.

Now you must delete the /install folder.

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Step 5: Final Step

NOTE: You should install ​Ray Media Server (RMS) if you're going to use Audio/Video? features in some Ray applications (such as Chat and IM). Besides, some Ray applications won't work without Ray Media Server at all (such as Video Recorder and Whiteboard).

Now you need to perform some final actions to register Dolphin, specify RMS for the Ray applications and compile languages for the Orca forum:

• You need to log into your Admin Panel and you will be given the prompt to register Dolphin.

• Proceed to Plugins -> Ray Suite -> Base Settings, check Use RMS, specify RMS Address (the IP address of your RMS), RMS Port (1935 by default) and RMS HTTP Port (5080 by default).

Click Save -> OK. If you see no error notification, your RMS is running properly. If the notification Can't connect to RMS appears, refer to this ​Troubleshooter

• Proceed to to Plugins -> Orca Forum

Click the link en next to the Compile Langs wording. Refresh the page. Navigate to ​http://your_site_url/groups/orca and click the link en next to the Compile Langs wording. Refresh the page. Now you won't see these annoying [L] letters anymore :)