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DAP Installation

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UPDATE: Use the new DAP Easy Installer plugin to install DAP, and skip the old method below.
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Old Way of Installing DAP

1. Download & Unzip Files

Log in to your member’s area at http://DigitalAccessPass.com/dap/ .

Download the following 2 files…

a) dap_vXX.zip

b) DAP-WP-Livelinks_vYY.zip

XX and YY are version numbers. Unzip the two zip files (separately) to your desktop. You should see 2 folders named dap and DAP-WP-LiveLinks.

WARNING: After you unzip the folders, you should NOT see a “dap” folder within the “dap” folder, or a “DAP-WP-LiveLinks” folder within the “DAP-WP-LiveLinks” folder. If you do, then in both cases, it is the inside “dap” folder or the inside “DAP-WP-LiveLinks” folder that’s important. Get rid of the outer one, and upload only the inner “dap” folder and the innert “DAP-WP-LiveLinks” folder, as explained below.

2. Upload Files

a) Upload the entire dap folder on your computer, to the root of your domain. The root directory is where your domain’s home page is usually located. This directory also goes by the name “public_html” or “www” or “htdocs”.

WARNING – Add-On Domains: If you have a hosting account with multiple domains, and you are trying to install DAP on the “main domain”, then upload the “dap” folder directly to the root of the main domain (like public_html). But if you wish to install DAP on an “add-on domain”, then the “dap” folder has to go into the root of the add-on domain (like public_html/addOnDomain.com)

WARNING: You may not rename the dap folder to anything else. The name of the folder MUST be dap, and regardless of where your blog is (in the main folder, or in a sub-folder), the dap folder must be in your root directory. Once this is done, the dap folder should be accessible by at http://www.Example.com/dap/ – but wait – don’t visit that link yet.

b) Upload the entire DAP-WP-LiveLinks folder (including the folder too) to your WordPress plugins directory, which is wp-content/plugins/

3. Activate Plugin

Log in as WordPress admin, go to the “Plugins” page, and activate the DAP-WP-LiveLinks plugin. Just activating the plugin installs the DAP tables in the same database as your WordPress blog. If there are any errors, you will see them on your screen. If not, you will see a message that says that installation is complete, with just one final step remaining (see below). You will also see the email and password for the DAP Admin account that has just been created for you. There is no need to log in separately to the DAP Admin Control Panel, as you have already been logged in as DAP admin during the installation. But save this DAP admin login info for future reference.

4. Permalinks Update (final step)

Within the WordPress admin control panel, go to “Settings > Permalinks”. Under the section “Customize Permalink Structure”, pick any option other than “Default“. IMPORTANT: Regardless of whether you made any changes on this Permalinks page or not, you MUST click on “Save Changes”. REPEAT: Don’t forget to click on “Save Changes” whether you changed the permalink structure or not.

5. Access DAP

You will now see a new link on your WordPress Admin Menu  (bottom left, below “Settings”) called “DigitalAccessPass”. Click on that link to access your DigitalAccessPass Admin Control Panel.

6. Setting Up Cron

This step is not required to just get started with using and learning DAP. But it is required when you are ready to start sending out autoresponder and broadcast emails, or processing affiliate commissions. Also required if you’re doing email-order processing of recurring payments through 1shoppingcart or 1SiteAutomation. It is critical that the cron job(s) is setup before you go live. So click here for the instructions.

DAP-WP-LiveLinks”

Comments

  3. These are nice simple instructions *if* you’re planning on using WordPress. How do you do the install if you are *not* planning on using wordpress? I want to start with just a “plain old HTML/PHP” web site! So what is the install procedure?

    Also, for testing purposes, I want to try playing with DAP on a Windows XP install with XAMPP 1.7.3 – which is working GREAT for the rest of my PHP/HTML testing!

  5. Just a note that when you unzip the dap.zip file, it creates a nested file structure, like this: dap/dap/all other files. Make sure when uploading that you upload the *internal* dap folder, not the top-level one.

    The plugin file structure is fine as is, and can actually be uploaded from within WordPress.

  8. So far so good, I have tested installing DAP on my test site. Thanks for the easy to follow instructions!

    Once I am ready to build my live site, will there be any problems when I remove my license key from my test site and use it on my live site?

  9. >>Once I am ready to build my live site, will there be any problems when I remove my license key from my test site and use it on my live site? << If you have 1 site license that you are currently using on your test site, then when you are ready to go live, open a support ticket with us with the names of your current test domain and the new domain, and we will update your license.

  10. We currently have a main website that is wordpress … we also have a different domain (WordPress) that is our training membership site that has DAP installed.

    I want to move them so they are on the same domain … so my thought was to do a new installation of wordpress on the subdomain of the main website’s domain … and then install DAP over there and recreate everything…get it all up and working with DAP/shopping cart/Aweber etc … and then switch it over.

    My questions are:

    1. can dap be installed on the subdomain as nothing on the main domains wordpress installation has anything to do with the membership component

    2. can i use the free installation service to make sure this is done right the first time as I did the first one myself so i would understand the program better (obviously judging by my barrage of questions lately I’m a slow learner!)

    … your support for this product has been by far the best I’ve experienced … thank you!

    Alan

  11. Hi Alan,

    >> 1. can dap be installed on the subdomain as nothing on the main domains wordpress installation has anything to do with the membership component < < Yes. DAP can be installed on a subdomain. DAP on the main domain cannot be used to manage the subdomain is installation. DAP does not distinguish between a subdomain / add-on domain and the main domain installation. They are treated the same. You will have to install dap in the subdomain just like you would on the main domain. >> 2. can i use the free installation service to make sure this is done right the first time as I did the first one myself so i would understand the program better << Sure.

  12. My site is brand new and has 2 WP installations.

    One for the blog/main site that will be posting content for the general public that is not password protected. This is at http://www.affordableguitarlessons.co/

    I did a second install of WP for the DAP/Install in a folder/directory called “guitarlessons”. The URL for this is http://www.affordableguitarlessons.co/guitarlessons/

    Based on my site structure and where I want DAP to run, Should I put DAP in the “guitarlessons” folder?

    Thanks

  14. I love the sound of DAP and hope it will allow me to fix my existing membership site.

    I have a membership site built on WordPress, using a plugin other than DAP. Links in this site point to HTML “members'” pages containing javascript programs (the product which members pay for).

    The existing membership plugin will not control access to the HTML pages, so links to those pages can be shared freely to non-members, which really defeats the purpose.

    Will DAP allow me to control access to parts of the WordPress site AND the HTML pages as well? Could I do that with the one installation on a single-site license?

    Thanks for your help!

  16. I have Godaddy hosting and have uploaded the DAP and DAP Livelinks files. Livelinks is showing up in my WP admin as an installed plugin but when I click to activate the plugin I get this error:

    Warning: require_once(/var/chroot/home/content/75/8182675/html/dap/inc/classes/Dap_Base.class.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/75/8182675/html/SISTEMAGANARDINERO/wp-content/plugins/DAP-WP-LiveLinks/DAP-WP-LiveLinks.php on line 34

  18. I cannot activate DAP to my website because and have this error message :

    Warning: require_once(/home/legissc1/public_html/id/dap/inc/classes/Dap_Base.class.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/legissc1/public_html/id/wp-content/plugins/DAP-WP-LiveLinks/DAP-WP-LiveLinks.php on line 34

    Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required ‘/home/legissc1/public_html/id/dap/inc/classes/Dap_Base.class.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/legissc1/public_html/id/wp-content/plugins/DAP-WP-LiveLinks/DAP-WP-LiveLinks.php on line 34

    Please help
    Thank you

  21. Hi Don,

    “Best” and “Inexpensive” usually don’t go well together :-)

    While DAP works with tens of thousands of WordPress themes, both free AND paid, here are some of the top themes we recommend for DAP…

    1. StudioPress themes: http://DigitalAccessPass.com/studiopress.php
    (best looking and most configurable themes we’ve found, built on the extremely popular “Genesis” framework)

    2. ThemeForest Popular Themes: http://digitalaccesspass.com/themeforest.php

    3. Woo: http://DigitalAccessPass.com/woothemes.php

    4. Optimize Press: (creates beautiful member areas, but not suitable for a typical “blog” type look & feel)
    See http://DigitalAccessPass.com/videos/optimizepress.php

    But basically, you may use any WordPress theme that you like. No restrictions.

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