wePrint Design Studio Intallation Guide

Before Installing

You will need:

  1. REQUIRED: ftp account info for your site (ftp address, ftp username, and ftp password
  2. RECOMMENDED: your database setup info (username, location and password.)

The following instructions apply to using the auto installer on Windows. To perform a manual install, check out the Manual Install guide.

Database Setup

The wePrint Design Studio Software uses a MySQL database to store some of the saved design information. Details of the design itself are not saved in the database, however, the user's email address, design name, type of product and other information is saved. The saved information is mainly used for searching saved designs. The actual design details are saved into an XML file as shown in the users guide.

A database should be created using your hosting provider's control panel. Depending on the hosting company, the control panel will have an eady to follow instructions for creating a database and a user for the database. We have a quick tutorial on DB setup from within cPanel. cPanel is popular control panel used by hosting companies and may or may not be applicable to your setup - cPanel DB Setup Guide

Auto Installation

This installation only works on a Windows PC.
In the following guide we installed a site with the domain of tshirtcanvas.com. Any place where you see tshirtcanvas.com, you will see your domain name in place of this site name.After downloading your installer package from our site you will have an icon in your download location similar to:

Double-click on this icon to launch the wePrint Design Studio Installer.

Installer Start Window



The Installer start window provides you with 3 options:

  1. Fresh Install
  2. Configure Previous Install
  3. Continue Previous Install

If this is the first time installing you will only see the Freash Install option, which is the option you need to select. So, select Fresh Install, and then click NEXT.

Licensing Agreement Window

You will not be able to go any further with the installation until you agree to the licensing agreement. Please read the licensing agreement. You can print a copy HERE.

Launch Install Guide

This window allows you to launch a browser that displays this install help guide.

FTP Setup

  • Enter the ftp parameters so that the wePrint Design Studio files can be uploaded to your hosting server.
  • By default the tool is installed to the designstudio directory. Click the change button and type in a different directory name.
  • Click on the Browse button. A dialog box will be launched. The installer will attempt to connect to your web server. If successsful, you will see a directory of your web server.

Web Directory



We recommend installing the tool directory into the top level of your site. This is usually within the httpdocs, htdocs, or public_html folder. If it is installed at the top level, then the URL will be http://www.mydomain.com/directory-name-you-selected. Select the location and click OK and the NEXT.

Install Ready

Click on the INSTALL button to begin the installation.

Installation Progress

The installation process will take a long time (10 to 20 minutes). There is about 20Mb of data to upload.

Installation Complete

The files have now been uploaded to your web site. At this point you need to configure a few files in order to get the wePrint Design Studio to functional completely and to your needs.
With the "Run Configuration" selected click finish and follow the steps below to configure the design tool.
NOTE: If you wish you can configure later by running the installer again and selecting the "Configure Previous Installation" from the
start window.

Configuration

The following files will be configured:

  1. convert-location.php
  2. connect_sql.php
  3. includes/shopdefaults.xml
  4. includes/wep-tool-config.xml
  5. html/tool-title.html
  6. html/browser-title.html

The inital configuration window will list the files as unconfigured.

Double-click on a file name to open it for editing.


Once you make the changes and select OK. The file will show as "unsaved".

Once you have opened and edited each file the window will look like this:

Now click on the APPLY button. The edited files will be uploaded to your server. You will be asked to
input your ftp password again before uploading. Once the files are uploaded, each file will be listed as "configured".

You are now finsihed with the configuration. Click CLOSE to close the configuration tool.