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Video of the Day: Post Installation Configuration (requires flash plugin)

This animated tutorial will demonstrate how to configure Video of the Day. Before proceeding with this part of the documentation, ensure that you have successfully installed the software using the installation wizard as described in the installation tutorial. Once you've verified completeness of the installation, click play on the media player to continue with the configuration demonstration.

Note: If FTP permissions are not available during the time of installation, you willl be asked to manually set the required file and folder permissions during the post installation process. Otherwise, you will not receive the permission notices.

If you're unsure about MySQL information, please contact your server administrator or web host. The individual or company who manages the server will be able to provide you with a host, database, username and password. After the form has been submitted you'll need to add a working FTP server. Click the 'FTP Servers' icon located to the right of the task menu bar. Once you've reached this page, click 'New FTP Server' on the subtask menu to add a server.

Note: When editing an FTP Servers settings, if the server is unavailable, you'll notice a slight delay of no more than 10 seconds. This is due to the unavailability of the FTP server and Video of the Day attempting to establish the connection. Once the page has finished resolving there will be a message informing you of the FTP servers connection status - 'unavailable', or 'available' if a connection can be established. As a safeguard, you can't delete any FTP connections that are associated with movies within Video of the Day.

The FTP server form fields are explained below:

Title: Provides a way for you to identify the content server. You should use a unique name.
IP address: Enter either the domain or ip address that points to the ftp server.
Full remote path: The complete document root path to the content located on the ftp server. If you're unsure what the complete document root path is, then please contact your system administrator or submit a support ticket to calmdev.com. It will be something like this /var/www/mydomain.com/htdocs/content/
Full web path: The publicly web accessible path that corresponds to the full remote storage path. For example using the the path mentioned above: http://www.mydomain.com/content/
Passive: Turns passive mode on or off. In passive mode, data connections are initiated by the client, rather than by the server. It may be needed if the client is behind firewall.
Port: This parameter specifies an alternate port to connect to. If it is omitted or set to zero, then the default FTP port, 21, will be used.
Username: The username (USER).
Password: The password (PASS).

Once you have added an FTP server and have verified the connection as available, you may move on to the next tutorial demonstrating how to upload and schedule movies.

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