to install HOTGLUE at your own website do the following:
- make sure you have FTP/SFTP access to your webserver. you need to know your login and password for that webserver, its address (most often the address of your website) and the URL. make sure PHP5 is available for you.
- install a FTP/SFTP client, a free one is
Filezilla- download zip file of
latest HOTGLUE- unzip the archive on your computer, there will be a folder containing all necessary files
- upload _all_ files to your website using your FTP/SFTP client. if you want to run HOTGLUE in a sub-directory (eg. mysite.com/hotglue) you need to make it first and upload all the files into that directory.
- note: if you are working on OS X it is very likely that .htaccess file is not displayed. the solution here would be to upload the entire directory of hotglue-xxxxxxx after it's extraction, as opposed to uploading separate files within that folder.
once upload is completed:
- change permissions of 'content' folder in the HOTGLUE installation to 777 (read-write for everyone)
- make sure there is .htaccess file in the root of your HOTGLUE installation, for OS X see a note above.
- in case you install HOTGLUE in a sub-directory of your website (eg. mysite.com/hotglue) edit .htaccess file and remove '#' symbol before '#RewriteBase /hotglue' and, if necessary, change '/hotglue' sub-directory name to the one you are using.
now if you go to
http://mysite.com/hotglue (or just
http://mysite.com if you istall HOTGLUE into root folder) you must see a blank white page, violla!
now to edit the page and create your stuff just add "/edit" to the URL or the page (and the same for all subsequent pages) and get all the menus! (ie
http://mysite.com/hotglue/start/edit)we have thee different menus:
single click on the canvas - create a block or upload file
double click - change properties of the page, delete or create a new one
click on the object - change object's properties
