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README
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WIREUS 0.1.1 "Infinite Dreams"
09 April 2011

This is the README file for Wireus, the Open Source Social Networking
platform. 

License
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This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
License along with this program, in the file "COPYING".  If not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

    IMPORTANT NOTE: The GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) has
    *different requirements* from the "regular" GPL. In particular, if
    you make modifications to the WIREUS source code on your server,
    you *MUST MAKE AVAILABLE* the modified version of the source code
    to your users under the same license. 

Testing
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The project is currently hosted in
        http://athena.nitc.ac.in/~b090084cs/



About
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This is the first official release  of WIREUS (0.1.1), an open source
social networking platform with basic social networking features.

       + Features
           * Connect with various people
           * Share your status message.
           * Send Open and Private messages to your friends
           * Share photos
           * Create open or moderated groups
           * Send group messages
       +Technical
           * Multiple database support
           

Prerequisites
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The following software packages are *required* for this software to
run correctly.

- PHP 5.2.3+. It may be possible to run this software on earlier
  versions of PHP, but many of the functions used are only available
  in PHP 5.2 or above. 5.2.6 or later. PHP 5.3.x should work correctly in this
  release.
  
- MySQL 5.x. or PostgreSQL 8.4+.

Your PHP installation must include the following PHP extensions:

- GD (php5-gd). For image thumbnailing   


Installation
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1. Unpack the tarball you downloaded on your Web server. e.g.

       tar zxf wireus-0.1.1.tar.gz

   ...which will make a wireus-0.1.1 subdirectory in your current
   directory. (If you don't have shell access on your Web server, you
   may have to unpack the tarball on your local computer and FTP the
   files to the server.)

2. Move the tarball to a directory of your choosing in your Web root
   directory. e.g.
       mv wireus-0.1.1 /var/www/wireus

   This will make your Wireus instance available in the your server, like "http://sample.com/wireus".  
   
3. Make your target directory writeable by the Web server.

       e.g. chmod 777 /var/www/wireus/

   On some systems, this will probably work:

       chgrp www-data /var/www/wireus/
       chmod g+w /var/www/wireus/


4. Create a database in pgsql or mysql.

   Note that WIREUS must have its own database; you can't share the
   database with another program. You can name it whatever you want,
   though.

5. Create a new database account that Wireus will use to access the
   database. Grant all permissions for the database user account, 
   (users are called ROLES in postgreSQL)


6. Create the tables as specified in the file named "SQLSETUPs" in the
   wireus folder.
   
7. Rename rename.connectionfile.php (in the lib/ directory) to connectionfile.php, and specify the names of all the variables as
   mentioned in the file
   
For further queries, contact   
   
Authors
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  Shamil CM <[email protected]>
  Sreeraj <[email protected]>


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