NOTE:  This upgrade requires .NET Framework Version of 3.5.

To perform a new installation of FuseTalk, follow these steps:

1.     Download your product from the Member Login area of the FuseTalk web site.

2.     Start the installation by double-clicking on the file.

3.     Enter your name and organization to personalize your installation of FuseTalk. Select the "Next >" button to continue.

4.     There are three feature options for your installation: Web Files, Database Install, and FuseTalk Service.  Select the options that you do not want to install, as all options by default will be installed. You can do this by selecting the "Entire Feature will be
unavailable" option in the drop-down.  Make any necessary changes.  Browse to the folder of choice in which you would like to install the FuseTalk application. Once you locate the installation folder of choice and confirm, select the "Next >" button to continue.

5.     Enter your database information, in which the FuseTalk tables will be installed.  The user you choose must have the permissions to create a database and tables.  We recommend that you use the SA user for this operation.  The database will be created for you if you do not have one created already, and it will be named, "FuseTalk".  Select the "Next >" button to continue.

6.     For the FuseTalk Connection String, enter the credentials of the user whom will be connecting to the FuseTalk database after FuseTalk is set up.  If you need to modify this information later, you can open the "webconfig" files, which are located at the root of both the forum and globaladmin directory.  Select the "Next >" button to continue.

7.     The Virtual Directory Setup allows you to specify how web sites and virtual directories will be installed to a Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS).  The dialogs that will appear and the options that will be available depend on the edition of IIS that you have.

8.     For security reasons, FuseTalk does not automatically set the table permissions. The database user assigned to your database should have update, delete, select and insert permissions for all the tables.

9.     Enter your forum/community name, owner email, SMTP information and locale information of your FuseTalk installation.  Hover over titles for descriptions of the settings.  Select the "Next >" button to continue.

10.  Enter the password and confirm the password for the administrator account.  The username for the administrator account is "administrator".  The password for this account is what you provide in this step.

11.  Enter the license key provided upon purchase, which is located in the Client Services Area.  If you are evaluating, then select either "Evaluate FuseTalk Basic" or "Evaluate FuseTalk Standard" as your option.  Select the "Next >" button to continue.

12.  The first forum will be created on your behalf for a FuseTalk Basic Edition license, with the information that will be provided in the next screen.  For other editions, this will not occur.

 

To perform an upgrade from FuseTalk v3.2 to FuseTalk v4.0, follow these steps:

1.     Download the Upgrade file from the FuseTalk Client Area.

2.     Back up the code files in your install directory and the database.

3.     Stop the FuseTalk Service.

4.     Copy the files from the unpacked upgrade folder and replace the existing Web and Utilities directory.

5.     Create a virtual directory in ISS for the Wiki module.  To do this, follow these steps:

 

a.     Open the IIS Administration Module from the Administrative Tools of your Windows Server

b.     Select the website on which FuseTalk is installed.

c.     Find the location of the "globaladmin", "forum", and "blog" virtual folders.

d.     Create a new Virtual Directory with the following properties:

Alias: wiki

Folder Path: [LOCATION OF FUSETALK INSTALL]\web\wiki 

(NOTE: The default is c:\Program Files\FuseTalk.Net)

e.     On the final screen of the Virtual Directory Creation Wizard, ensure that you check the Run Scripts (such as ASP) option.

 

6.     Update the wiki web.config file by inserting your datasource connection information.  To do this, follow these steps:

 

a.     Open the web.config in the wiki folder using a text editor.

b.     Locate the XML entry.

c.     Inside appSettings there should be an entry similar to the following:

                                   

   

Replace { YOUR CONNECTION STRING HERE } with the SQL Server connection string where FuseTalk is installed.

d.     Save the web.config and exit the file.

 

NOTE:

If you are unsure what the connection string should be, you can look at the web.config in the "forum" folder.  Both the connection string from the "wiki" folder and the "forum" folder should be the same.

 

7.     Perform the instructions in the .txt file for the globaladmin web.config.

8.     Perform the instructions in the .txt file for the forum web.config.

9.     If you are using a parent virtual directory (in which the virtual directories in part 5c are located), please ensure that the Local Path name is pointing to the “globaladmin” directory. To do this, follow these steps:

 

a.     Open the IIS Administration Module from the Administrative Tools of your Windows Server.

b.     Select the website on which FuseTalk is installed.

c.     Find the location of your parent virtual directory.

d.     Right click on the virtual directory and select "Properties".

e.     In the "Virtual Directory" tab, locate the "Local Path" textbox and ensure that the path name is: [LOCATION OF FUSETALK INSTALL]\web\globaladmin

(NOTE: The default is c:\Program Files\FuseTalk.Net).

 

10.  Start the FuseTalk Service.

11.  Log in to the global administration module.  As you log in, the database is upgraded.  Ensure the user account that you are using in the connection string in the globaladmin web.config has DBO rights, since we do alter and create tables from time to time.

 

Edited: 04/16/2010 at 12:42 PM by ftsupport 4

Please find attached the .txt files mentioned in steps 7 and 8 of the upgrade instructions.