Business Directory Management System V2.0 - Builds comprehensive categorized business directories of companies profiles, links, news. BDMS is designed to generate income from listing fees and advertisement.

A website using BDMS

Installation instructions:

1) Unpack the file bbdms.zip into a local folder on your PC, for example “bbdms”.

2) Copy this folder to your web server into a directory under the web root, for example “public_html/bbdms”.
You can use any FTP program such as WS_FTP

3) Create a MySQL database with user and password using phpMyAdmin

5) Edit file config.php in the config folder using MySQl database settings:

$dbhost = ‘localhost’; // database host, usually “localhost” should work
$dblogin = ‘your database username’; // database username set with phpMyAdmin
$dbpass = ‘your password’; // database password set with phpMyAdmin
$dbname = ‘your database name’; // database name set with phpMyAdmin

$dbprefix = ‘bdms_’; // database table prefix
$charset = ‘iso-8859-1′; // charset, usually does not need to be changed
$base = ‘/bdms/’; // location of the BDMS installation files
$admin_username = ‘admin’; // admin user name to administer BDMS
$admin_password = ‘admin password’; // administrator’s password

6) Set permissions 777 for folders “images” and “backup” under bbdms installation directory

7) Create a folder under webroot where the catalog will be stored. For example “public_html/index” or “public_html/catalog”. Set it’s premissions to 777. You should not attempt to store catalog in the root directory since the admin script has the ability to delete the whole folder which may cause BDMS work incorrectly or delete wring files.

8) Open this URL in your browser:
http://www.your-domain.com/bdms/install/
If you see message ‘File /config/config.php already exists’ and you’ve already edited the config.php file click on “Continue with this config file” link.

9) Click on “Install” link.

10) Now you can login as admin at: http://www.your-domain.com/bdms/admin/

11) Go to “Settings->common” and set “Path from server root to catalog dir” to whatever directory you’ve created (index, calalog, etc..) You can now set other important setting now too.

12) Delete or rename the “install” folder!

Hints for starting using BDMS

- First compile must be full!