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The following guide will be useful if you will be hosting Dev Hound on an external windows based hosting site.

Firstly, install Dev Hound on a local PC then you will need to upload files to your web server location. Be sure you know where you can put web applications such as the cgi-bin folder.

• Upload to the cgi-bin folder: devhound.dll, standard.css
• Create a data folder and upload: devhound.tdbd, archive.tdbd
• Create a templates folder and upload the contents of the templates folder
• Create a web folder and upload the contents of the web folder (usually as a subfolder of cgi-bin folder)
• Open the file tsconfig.ini file (which may be located on your root c drive) and alter the directory for database, web, templates and relative (should be .\web) using absolute paths if possible
• Upload tsconfig.ini to the same place as devhound.dll

Permissions

You should also set permissions on your folders if possible. Use to following:

• cgi-bin - Executable
• web - read
• templates - read
• data - read write modify

Optional CGI app

You may also download the cgi application version for Dev Hound from www.nexusconcepts.com , install it and upload the file devhound.exe to the cgi-bin folder. You use devhound.exe rather than devhound.dll when opening Dev Hound. The cgi application has the advantage of extra stability and the ability to upgrade without requiring a server restart, it is however considerably slower than the ISAPI dll.

Notes about IE

Internet Explorer hides useful error messages reported by Dev Hound (such as permission problems). To turn this off:

• Open Control Panel
• Double click Internet Options
• Click the Advanced tab
• Uncheck the option "show friendly http error messages"