9 Buy Smallsite Design
Smallsite design is purchased through a seller, who will provide a license number, which when entered into a PHP file uploaded to your hosting server and run, will install the site software.
The only information the Smallsite Design license server stores is the license number and the domain name for the site. No other details are required for identifying ownership. For getting software updates, only the domain name is used. The domain name must be rented and setup for use on a hosting provider's server before Smallsite Design can be installed, though it can also be installed into a subdomain of an already hosted domain.
Prior to installation, an email account name of noreply must be created for the domain or subdomain where Smallsite Design is being installed, with a forwarder to delete all received emails immediately without notifying the sender, as described in the Create a noreply email account procedure. This account is used by Smallsite Design to send notifications to managers and writers, while ignoring any replies to it. It also helps email security because it is used to validate that the emails sent by Smallsite Design are from a real account on the site's domain.
If the license was a gift, you should have it as an email or printed out, though an email is preferable as the long license number can be cut-and-pasted from it. You can start at step 2 .
- a.You do not need to do this procedure.
- b.Make sure you are given the login details for the domain registrar, and immediately log in to change the password.
- c.Make sure you are given the login details for the
cPanel interface from the hosting provider, and immediately log in to change the password. - d.Make sure you are given the login details for your Smallsite Design site, and immediately log in to Change password and Set up Smallsite Design to your liking.
Smallsite Design is intended to allow you to have complete responsibility and control over your website, bypassing the normal bottleneck of having to wait for others to make changes for you while they pursue their own priorities. You can enlist the help of others, but never hand over control to them.
Step 2 provides the only download link for the installation file.
Do not use any offered by anyone nor anywhere else.
Steps△
The role to perform this procedure is: Site owner.
by performing:
by clicking one of the buttons under the
by typing in the information required.
by clicking the
Some providers will open a login page for their site. Proceed as per their normal payment process, but clicking any backlink to the seller when complete.
A copy of the invoice is emailed to the provided address. It includes the license number.
All seller pages can now be closed.
by clicking this download file link.
The file will placed in the folder on your device where they are set to, typically in the Desktop/This PC/Downloads on a Windows computer. The file name will be like:
install.sd.2024-12-25-16-23-46.47809ef89ab09024fed9090ac900d90a.php.
The sha256 hash of this file is:
300f86e90a936944ae39454d04ec82a0c0386cb8502049d5ebcd9688224db49a.
by performing:
by clicking the
by clicking the folder name in the starting pane.
For the account domain, the folder will be public_html. For an addon domain, it will be a folder in it like mydomain.com, which is the folder specified for the document root at step 5 of the
If there are any folders other than .well-known or cgi-bin folders, or a file other than robots.txt, perform the Delete a site procedure to clear the folder.
by clicking the
where username and domain.com will be the username for the hosting account and the document root folder name respectively.
by whatever process that is for the OS.
by drilling down to the folder where file was dropped in step 2.
by dragging the file from the file manager to the drop area on the
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