Installation and upgrade

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What is New

You can see the list of all changes regarding release in our Change log (https://dev.postaffiliatepro.com/posts/)

Requirements

December 2022 - we support PHP 8.1 with ionCube PHP Loader version 12 (PHP 7.4 is deprecated, working with ionCube 11 or 12) Before you order Post Affiliate Pro, check if your server or hosting account meets the following requirements: - PHP version 8.1. or 7.4. - with extensions: PDO MySQL, gd2, exif, iconv, mbstring, PHP5-CURL package, mod_rewrite, bcmath, xml, zip - with ionCube PHP Loader v12 read more here (https://support.qualityunit.com/451957-How-to-check-PHP-loaders-ability-of-...

High performance requirements

If someone wishes to provide affiliate program to an enormously large affiliate and customer base, the recommended server specs are as follows: APPLICATION (WEB) SERVER CONFIGURATION * Processor: Intel Dual Xeon X5650 (12 cores) 2.6Ghz per Core * RAM: 64GB DDR3 RAM note: to handle high traffic loads you may need even higher amount of RAM MYSQL DATABASE SERVER CONFIGURATION * Processor: Intel Dual Xeon X5650 (12 cores) 2.0Ghz per Core * RAM: 64GB DDR3 RAM * Disk: 4 ...

How to check PHP loaders ability of the server?

Our product can now be run only on ionCube PHP loader version 11 and higher. Important note: Always use binary mode when uploading files to your server using FTP. IonCube loader Here you can download latest version for your server (feel free to use their installation wizzard for smoother installation): https://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php Test script You can use this script to check if supported PHP version and encoder is installed on your server. Just Create new file test.php on y...

Post Affiliate Pro installation

Before proceeding to the steps below, please, check the minimum requirements (https://support.qualityunit.com/632513-Requirements) regarding the server where Post Affiliate Pro is about to be installed. Post Affiliate Pro is distributed as a ZIP archive which you can download from your members area (https://members.qualityunit.com/customer/login.php). Check this guide (https://support.qualityunit.com/451957-How-to-check-PHP-loaders-ability-of-the-server) to see which ZIP archive you should do...

Installation FAQ

Question: What can I do if my installation fails? Answer: Here are some tips and tricks that you can try to do if your installation keeps failing. These are the most common reasons our customers used to have problems with the installation. First of all, you should check the php loader ability of your webserver (https://support.qualityunit.com/451957-How-to-check-PHP-loaders-ability-of-the-server). In case you happen to have PHP version 5.3.x and you have both ionCube and ZendGuard loa...

Updating Post Affiliate Pro

Before updating Post Affiliate Pro it is a good idea to check the changelog here (https://dev.postaffiliatepro.com/all/) and also to make sure that your server still meets the minimum system requirements here (https://support.qualityunit.com/632513-Requirements). NOTE: Since version 5.4.5.1 custom template files are stored in database and are loaded via .htaccess, if you are using Nginx server you need to rewrite the .htaccess rules, you can find help here (https://support.qualityunit.com/08157...

Moving installation of PostAffiliatePro to another domain or directory

Important notice: Post Affiliate Pro (PAP) is possible to be moved to another domain or directory just 2 times ! If you reach this limit, your license will be invalidated. How to move the installation of PAP: 1. You can move all files to a new location (or rename directory where PAP is installed). 1.1 (Skip this step if you are moving Post Affiliate Pro (PAP) version 4) In case of moving Post Affiliate Pro (PAP) version 5+ you need to realise that the installation files are encrypted and...

Moving installation without loosing tracking requests on high traffic programs

This article should serve as a complement to regular migration article (https://support.qualityunit.com/737305-Moving-installation-of-PostAffiliatePro-to-another-domain-or-directory) and its aim is to explain to advanced users which steps need to be taken during migration in order to not lose any tracking requests and to be able to process them after the migration is completed. Here is how you should proceed: * Copy the files to the new location the usual way. * If you had cron job set...

Upgrade from PAP4+ to PAP4+ Network

The upgrade is almost the same like a common update of Post Affiliate Pro 4 to the latest version. Before the update, you need to accomplish some special changes: * Open the table qu_g_settings which is located in the database of your Post Affiliate Pro (PAP) installation on your server. Remove the value of LICENSE, replace the value of LICENSE_CODE with your new license code and save the file. * Open your Merchant panel. You will get an Invalid license warning screen. Now enter your new ...

Upgrade to version 4.4+

Read this carefully before upgrading from older version to version 4.4.x.x or higher as there are couple of major changes in version 4.4. 1. Offline Impression/Click/Sale processing In order to increase performance of the tracking subsystem we have introduced offline impression/click/sale processing. This means that you do not see impressions/clicks/sales right after they happen, but will have to wait till the cron job processes them. Because of this, we recomend to set up the Post Affilia...

Migration script from PAP3 to PAP4+

You can upgrade your system from version 3 to version 4 or higher with the help of our Pap3Compatibility plugin. This plugin contains two things: 1. script for data migration from PAP3 to PAP4 (or higher) database 2. scripts for compatibility of JavaScript tracking from PAP3 to PAP4 (or higher) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Data migration from PAP3 to PAP4 (or higher) ---------------------------------------------------------------------...

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