Webcalendar installation instructions

This is useful for an event calendar. Webcalendar supports RSS therefore people can subscribe to the calendar. On the homepage of your cPanel, click on the Fantastico icon. This will take you to the home page of Fantastico. Enter the name of the directory where you want to install WebCalendar in the Install in directory textbox. If you want to install it on the homepage, leave the textbox empty.

Trackback URL. Mega How To. User Authentication: Web-based via WebCalendar default. Read-only: NO. Environment: Production. After saving the settings you need to click on the "Launch Web Calendar" button. After the calendar launches you need to login with username admin and password admin. Important notice: You should monitor the site of the software vendor for any security updates of your installed application. No setup fees. Minimum contract period for shared hosting services - 12 months.

Full prepayment for the contract period. No automatic renewal. Fees for domain registrations and SSL certificates cannot be refunded in case of an early contract termination. By visiting this website you accept its use of cookies. Manage your cookie preferences. If this is your first time using the calendar, it's easier to try single-user.

You can always switch to multi-user later. You will need to do this via the database mysql, sqlplus, etc. Look in the tables-mysql. If you are setting up a multi-user calendar, you will need to choose how your users are authenticated.

At this point, your WebCalendar installation should be up and running. For example, if the zip file was named WebCalendar For convenience, you can rename this directory so that the URL does not include the version number. On Windows, you can do this from the Windows Explorer. Supposing you renamed the WebCalendar If you have not previously configured your database settings, you will be automatically redirected to a web page for configuring your database settings.

If you have configured your web server to use index. On a single-user system, your browser should be redirected to week. On a multi-user system, your browser should be redirected to login. TIP On a multi-user system, the only user account created during installation has the username of "admin" and a password of "admin". You should create a new admin account and delete this one for security reasons.

After logging in as an admin user the initial username is "admin" with password "admin" , you will see a common set of links at the bottom of each page. Follow these steps to create a new user:. TIP For an event calendar, you do not need to create a user for the "public user".

PHP does not come with a utility for executing time-based jobs. So, in order to check periodically for email reminders, a shell script was written in PHP. You will need two things to get this working:. If you really can't do this perhaps you don't have permission to install anything new on the system , skip down a couple of paragraphs to an alternate solution that does not require PHP CGI.

This would be the same user that the web server process runs as. IMHO, this is not the best choice, but it still works. Setup a cron job to access the URL. You should test this from the command line first to make sure your setup is correct. If you do not have wget installed on your system, you can use any tool lynx, perl script, etc. System Settings allows the administrator to control what features are available to users as well as default values for certain features.

If this is your first time using the calendar, you can skip this step and come back later since this step is optional. You can use this feature to add extra fields to your calendar events. For example, you can add a URL, a contact email address, or a location. By default, this file is configured with a single reminder field that allows the user to specify how long before the event the reminder should be sent.

TIP See instructions on setting up reminders to enable sending of reminders. When defining a new custom field, the following types listed below are available. In some cases, "Arg 1" and "Arg 2" are not used. If you encounter a bug, please check the list of open and pending bugs. If you do not see anything similar, submit a new bug. The following information is based on phpMyAdmin version 2.

You have two options to choose from when setting up email reminders on a Windows platform. You can either install a cron package for Windows, or you can use the Windows Task Scheduler. If you install a cron package for Windows, you will need to setup to setup a cron job. UNIX cron is a tool for used to run tasks as specified times anywhere from every minute to once a year.