Steps For Installing Or Upgrading Prosper202 on GoDaddy

EDIT: (November 9, 2010) These steps may not be necessary any longer. It seems that with new hosting purchases there is no longer a requirement to change the references of “DOCUMENT_ROOT” in the install files to “SUBDOMAIN_DOCUMENT_ROOT”. If you’re getting the error: “Warning: require_once(/202-config/functions.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in…” then you may want to download the original files again and use those. If you are still having trouble, I can help you install Prosper202… click here to find out how.

You’ll likely run across some errors when trying to install or upgrade Prosper202 on your GoDaddy hosting… so here’s how to get it going..

First, keep in mind that it needs to be installed on a linux server using a dedicated domain or subdomain (not a subfolder). If you haven’t setup a subdomain or aren’t using a dedicated domain, do that first. Also, it needs php5. I wrote a post about how to quickly and easily upgrade to php5 on GoDaddy here. For a small fee I can get everything setup for you…contact me here.

Now.. to fix the other errors, it’s as simple as changing the references of “DOCUMENT_ROOT” in the install files to “SUBDOMAIN_DOCUMENT_ROOT”. The problem is that there are so many of them.. but it actually isn’t too bad when following the steps below and using an advanced text editor.

I adopted the steps below from a forum post that I found on Prosper202 here. Those instructions use Notepad++ for searching/editing/saving multiple text files while the ones below use TextPad.

1. Download/Install TextPad.
2. Download Prosper202 and unzip it into a new folder on your desktop.
3. Open the folder and right click “index.php” and click “TextPad” to open it in TextPad.
4. Click on the “Search” menu and click “Find In Files…” or press Ctrl+F5.
5. In the “Find what:” box type: DOCUMENT_ROOT
6. You can probably leave the “In folder:” selection as the default but I would browse to the folder you created and unzipped Prosper202 to just in case you have other files in the default location that you DON’T want changed.
7. Click “Find”.
8. A “Search Results” box will pop up listing every file that contains your search query… click inside the box, press Ctrl+A to “select all” and then right click and click “Open All”.
9. After you open them all, close the “Search Results” and “Find In Files” boxes.
10. Click the “Search” menu and click “Replace…” or press F8.
11. The “Find what:” box should already be pre-populated with: DOCUMENT_ROOT (if not, add it)
12. In the “Replace with:” box type: SUBDOMAIN_DOCUMENT_ROOT
13. Under “Scope:” choose “All documents”.
14. Click “Replace All” and click “OK” to edit all of the files. Now close the “Replace” box.
15. Click the “File” menu and click “Save All” or press Ctrl+Shift+S.
16. Close TextPad and upload the files to your server, replacing the existing files if necessary.

Hope it works for you! Any questions go ahead and post below…