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Installation - Download FTT from http://www.fttcj.com/
- extract files to your hard drive. Upload ftt directory in BINARY mode to /your/site/root/directory/. You can also extract tar.gz archive directly on server via ssh client with commands:
cd /your/site/root/directory/
wget http://www.fttcj.com/download/ftt_install.tar.gz
tar zxf ftt_install.tar.gz - chmod /your/site/root/directory/ftt directory with all files and subdirectories to 777. From ssh client run:
chmod -R 777 /your/site/root/directory/ftt - Go to http://yoursite.com/ftt/install.php and follow instructions. You may need to create 2 mysql databases ( if that's your first installation on that server ) or 1 mysql database ( one shared and one for each FTT installation ). Please, note, that mysql user you specify on install page should have full access to all databases with FTT or ability to create them ( if they are not created yet ). So, if you will specify mysql root password, for example, databases will be created automatically.
- If everything is OK, installation of files and database will be done and you will just need to add special line to your crontab ( will be showed on install page ). Don't forget it!
Initial configuration
- Go to your FTT admin area ( http://yoursite.com/ftt/secure/ )
- First thing you should do - set the login and password for your admin area. Choose Maintaince->Password Change from drop-down menu and set desired login and password.
- Choose Settings->Trade Signup Settings. Enter your url, nick name, email, icq. Check Enable trade self-signup form if you want to enable signup form. Signup form located at http://yoursite.com/ftt/signup.php. Check By default trade is enabled if you want to enable trade just after someone signups for trade on your signup form. If unchecked - you will have to approve the trade before script will start return.
- Choose Settings->Trade Rules. In Site Info field you can enter some html. That html will be showed before rules on signup page. ( for example, you can add there some sponsors banners ). Edit Rules if you wish.
- Choose Settings->Main Settings. Set Default url. Select trade algorithm. Available trade algorithms:
Stable - your hourly return will be more reactive to amount of hits from trader in that hour. Recommended for quality sites with content.
By effectiveness - more straight algorithm. Your hourly return will be more reactive to how many clicks surfers made from particilar trader in that hour. Recommended for quality sites with content.
UE algorithm - in this algorithm not only surfers clicks used for evaluating trade effectivity but also unique hits in from trader. So, that trade algorithm recommended for sites where quality of traffic is not so important how the quantity of traffic ( for example, if you get money from your site selling exit console traffic to broker ).
UEE algorithm - same as UE, but clicks are weighted more than unique hits in.
Please, note - UE and UEE algorithms now not supported and may not work as expected.
Check "Output compressed pages" if you want to enable html gzip compression by php to speed up load of your pages by surfers and reduce your server traffic. Recommended. You should have your php compiled with zlib for that feature to work.
Thats enough configuration for start. If you want more detailed info - see "settings documentation"Get it running On your index page you should insert special code to count traffic from your traders.
Your index page should be php (recommended) or SSI enabled. For example, if your index page supports php codes ( i.e. named index.php), insert this line somethere between <head> and </head> tags:
<? include("./ftt/in.php"); ?>
if your index page supports only SSI ( i.e. named index.shtml ), insert this line instead:
<!--#include virtual="/ftt/in.php" -->
If you want to enable such features as page rotation, page compression, different pages for different traders - you can move your index page/pages to /ftt/pages directory and rename /ftt/ftt_index.php (it's open sourced) to /index.php (make it your new index page). Please, note, your pages in /ftt/pages directory should have <? include("./ftt/in.php"); ?> line between <head> and </head> and SSI codes will not work there.
Later you can create directories like /ftt/pages_mature, /ftt/pages_withconsole, /ftt/pages_high_skim etc. and move there some other index pages. In admin area you can choose wich pages directory to use for each trader (including special trades - noref and notrade).
Also in main settings of admin area you can choose page rotation method (consecutive or concurrent). If consecutive method choosen, pages will be rotated in consecutive order - new surfer will always see first page. If that surfer returns on your site he will see second page and so on. If surfer have seen all pages in your pages directory - random page will be showed. Pages in pages directory sorted by filename just like ls command in shell or just like your ftp client sorts them.
If concurrent method choosen, script will show to surfer random not visited yet page from your pages directory. If all pages are visited - random will be showed.
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