Installing KBLinker

These instructions have been updated for version 1.0

If you have ever installed a popular script such as Wordpress these steps should be somewhat familiar to you.

1. Create a database on your server, or note the settings for an existing database on the server.
2. Extract Kblinker into an empty folder.
3. Upload the folder contents into the location where you would like to manage from (ie: /public_html/manager/)
4. Set the files key.php, config.php and the folder /tengine/compile to be writable by the server (chmod 777).
5. Navigate your browser to the manager folder (ie: http://www.mysite.com/manager/)
6. You will be prompted to enter your database settings
7. Make Money

Installing the redirector

In order to actually send users somewhere you need to link them to your redirector. In the extracted KBLinker folder (from step 2 above) you will find a redirection folder. Contained within are two files, goto.php and lconfig.php. The goto.php file can be renamed, for example to redirect.php. Do not attempt to edit the file content itself as attempting to do so may render the file unusable. You will want to update the lconfig.php file in a text editor with your database settings. If the location is not on the same server as the database (ie: using locahost as host would not work), make sure that the configuration is updated to allow that user off-site access to the link database.

Further Reading

[links coming soon]
- Setting up a database
- Securing the manager with auth_basic
- URL rewriting for redirection
- Configuration explained.