LaraClassified

Geo Classified Ads CMS v1.1

created: 03/01/2016
latest update: 06/18/2016
by: Mayeul Akpovi
email: mayeul.a@larapen.com

Many thanks for your purchase. For a quick and easy installation we created for you this technical support. Please use the left navigation bar to browse through this support. Let’s go !

Before install make sure you have the proper server requirements

PHP 5.5.9 or greater
GD or Imagick
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension

File and folder permissions

Before Install

/bootstrap        775
/database         775
/public/uploads   775
/storage          775

After Install

.env          644

Visit yoursite.com/install to install
Visit yoursite.com/admin and use Email: admin@yoursite.com / Password: 123456.
Change the email address and the password.
You are done.

Before install make sure you have the proper server requirements.

PHP 5.5 or greater
GD or Imagick
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension

Upload and extract the main.zip in your public folder.
Visit your apache or nginx config file.

Usual default path for config files.

Apache
/etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

Nginx
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/site-name

Change the document root to public

On apache it will look something like this

<Directory "/path/to/your-web-root-path/public">
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Replace path/to/your-web-root-path to your real web root path.

Nginx

root "/var/www/public";
location / {
   try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

Restart the apache or nginx
Visit yoursite.com/install to install
Visit yoursite.com/admin and use Email: admin@yoursite.com / Password: 123456.
Change the email address and the password.
You are done.

Here are links to 2 great blogs that will also help you with the install.

Before install make sure you have the proper server requirements.

PHP 5.5 or greater
GD or Imagick
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension

Also take care of folder and files permissions.

Before Install

/bootstrap        775
/database         775
/public/uploads   775
/storage          775

After Install

.env          644

Extra the main.zip in a folder on your computer.
Visit public folder, select all files and create zip call it zip1.zip or something you like.
Login to your cPanel or FTP upload the file to your public_html or htdocs folder and extract it.
Delete the public folder from your computer ( system )
Select all the remaing files and create new zip call it zip2.zip or anything you like.
Visit your cPanel and root directory /home/yourUserName
Upload and extract the file there.
Create MySQL database, add user to it with full permissions.
Visit yoursite.com/install and run the installer.
Visit yoursite.com/admin and use Email: admin@yoursite.com / Password: 123456.
Change the email address and the password.
You are done.

Login to your cPanel
Upload main.zip to a folder example laraclassified
Extract it, everything in laraclassified folder.
Visit sub-domain manager in your cPanel.
Change document root of your sub-domain to public.
Create empty mysql user and add user to it with full permissions.
Visit laraclassified.example.com/install to run the final installer.
Visit laraclassified.example.com/admin and use Email: admin@yoursite.com / Password: 123456.
Change the email address and the password.
You are done.

Image Setting

We support for two image processor.

GD
Imagick

GD is very basic image resizing driver for PHP and only to used on basic website. It has memory issues and doesn’t perform well at all conditions.

If you want your site for pro-photography or better quality images we prefer you to use imagick instead for better quality results.

Please make sure that your server has imagick installed.

First make sure that you have imagick installed on your server, if not then contact your hosting provider.

Login to your FTP account.
Open and edit .env file.

IMAGE_DRIVER=gd

Change it to

IMAGE_DRIVER=imagick

You are done.
Clear Cache (Optional)

Clear All Image Cache

Caution..!! Your site might face down time until all images are re-cached

For those who are not using cloud CDN

Login to your FTP.
Visit storage/framework/cache
Delete all file from it.
Visit your site in browser and refresh it.

For those who using cloud CDN

Login to cloud server
Visit cache folder
Delete all file from it.
Now login to your website FTP account
Visit storage/framework/cache
Delete all file from it.
Visit your site in browser and refresh it for 10-15 times.

Image manipulation in PHP is a very memory consuming task. Since most tasks in PHP don’t exhaust default memory limits, you have to make sure your PHP configuration is able to allocate enough memory to handle large images.

The following php.ini directives are important.

memory_limit

Sets a maximum amount of memory in bytes that a script is allowed to allocate. Resizing a 3000 x 2000 pixel image to 300 x 200 may take up to 32MB memory.

upload_max_filesize

If you’re planing to upload large images, verify that this setting for the maximum size of file uploads fits your needs.

Read more in the official PHP documentation for:

It’s possible to set these directives in your php.ini or at runtime with ini_set.

How can I set the Default country?

Go to your LaraClassified Admin -> Settings and set ‘Default Country‘ with your country code (only ISO alpha-2 codes are accepted).

How can I set the Default currency?

The default currency will be that of the current country, except the Packs’s currency that you can set from Admin -> Payments -> Packs.

How can I setup my paypal account?

Go to your LaraClassified Admin -> Settings
Set ‘PayPal mode‘, ‘PayPal username‘, ‘PayPal password‘ and ‘PayPal signature‘
And save your changes.

How can I setup the packs/Plans?

Go to your LaraClassified Admin -> Payments -> Packs
Select a pack and edit it
NOTE: You can add new packs or delete current packs in the actual version.

How can I setup the advertising code (e.g. Adsense)?

Go to your LaraClassified Admin -> Advertisings
(Only if there is no record) Please import the app database tables from/database/sql/data/required/app-data.sql and go again to LaraClassified Admin panel ->Advertisings
Edit ‘top‘ and ‘bottom‘ code.
The code will be displayed on the search results pages and the ads page.
Your are done.

How can I setup Recaptcha?

Go to your LaraClassified Admin -> Settings
Turn ON or OFF ‘Recaptcha activation‘
Set ‘reCAPTCHA public key‘ and ‘reCAPTCHA private key‘
And save your changes.

More options doc coming soon…

Coming soon...

You can find this docs here: https://larapen.com/guide/laraclassified/1-1/

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