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Installation Overview or "Quick Start"

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Instructions for NEW Installations

The below instructions are only applicable to a non-RavenNuke™ site. The TegoNuke™ Downloads (NSNGD) was integrated into the RavenNuke™ package starting with version 2.50.00. It is our opinion that one should upgrade to the latest version of RavenNuke™ (which at this writing is 2.50.00) in order to get the advantage of all the great security and bug fixes that have been made up to this release. Therefore, we will only be providing Downloads Upgrade instructions for the RavenNuke™ system, not new installation instructions.

Step 1: Backup, Backup, Backup

Always, always, always back up your site files and database. Most web hosts provide some form of control panel that you can log into and perform common administration tasks such as submitting a full site backup, files and databases. It is always good practice to produce these back-ups so that you may quickly restore back to your previous condition in case you mess something up.

Another helpful tip that we learned rather quickly is to create a development/test environment right on your local PC/laptop to mirror that of your production site. There are entire WAMP/LAMP environments available today, such as XAMPP from Apache Friends, which make this incredibly easy. This type of set up gives you an opportunity to test all of your site updates off-line prior to going live. Call it a dry-run, trial-run, or just being smart, whatever you like.  :-)

Step 2: Extract Files

Extract the distribution archive to a temporary location on your PC in preparation for upload (but do not upload just yet).

Step 3: Core File Updates

Pull down to your local PC (using your favorite FTP client) the following files as you may need to make edits to these:

   mainfile.php
   modules/Search/index.php
   modules/Your_Account/includes/ui-l10downloads.php (only RavenNuke(tm))
   modules/Top/index.php

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