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LBS^2 Beta README FILE
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LICENSE AGREEMENT
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Copyright 2005 SiC/CYAN. All rights reserved.

You can redistribute and use this software, with or without modification, are
permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 

This software is provided as freeware, and you can redistribute or use it on
non-commercial purposes.

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list
of conditions and the following disclaimer. Neither the name of this software
nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
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ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
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(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON
ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
(INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 


UPGRADE FROM OLD VERSION
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* This upgrade can only be used with L-Blog S_Hybrid Version 0xF0.
* And if your password length is lower than 6, please change your password
  first or you'll be unable to login after upgraded.

1. Extract the package and modify the "blogDB" of the "_upgrade001.asp" file to
   your old Database's location. (Please backup the Database first)

2. Upload the following files (or all the files of the whole software package).
   
   - lang/blog.asp
   - class/dbconn.asp
   - class/function.asp
   - _upgrade001.asp

3. Visit "_upgrade001.asp", click "Start" and have a cup of tea.

4. Delete "_upgrade001.asp" when done.


INSTALLATION
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1. Extract the package and modify the "Configuration Section" section of
   "_common.asp" file.

   - blogDB: The relative path to your Blog's Access Database file. Please
             modify it to make your blog secure.

   - ipDB: The relative path to the IP Database file. Not use in this version.

   - gbookDB: The relative path to the Guestbook's Database file. If you don't
              want to use the integrated Guestbook, please set it to "".

   - lbsNamespace: Modify it to any string that only contains "a-z", "A-Z",
                   "0-9", and "_". It is used to prevent conflicts with other
                   ASP Web applications. If you have two LBS installed on the
                   same server, please make sure they have different values of
                   "lbsNamespace".

   - cacheCleanCode: Used in URL string to clean the cache manually. if you set
                     it to "doit", you can clean cache with the following URL:
                     "default.asp?cleancache=doit"

   - globalCodePage: Set the codepage of this ASP Application. Default is 65001
                     (Unicode), you can set it to other codepage if needed.
                     Change of this setting is not recommended.

   - globalEncoding: The default encoding used in both HTML page and XML (RSS
                     Feed). You can mondify it to your language's encoding if
                     you have modified the "globalCodePage".

   - altCodePage: Alternative codepage used for temporary output. You can use it
                  to output page or data in the codepage encoding set by it.

   - altCodePageName: The Alternative encoding name used to trigger output in
                      alternative codepage encoding set by "altCodePage".
                      If you set it to "gbk" and given the URL string below:
                      "default.asp?codepage=gbk"
                      LBS will output the page in the codepage of "altCodePage"

   - siteClosedMessage: Used as output content when you closed the site.

   - siteBannedMessage: Used as output content when an user or bot is banned.

2. Upload the software to a Server support ASP 3.0, Access2000 Database, FSO
   (File system object, for file upload and online database management) and has
   ScriptEngine 5.5+ (Comes with IE 6.0, for RegExp used in UBBCODE.ASP).

3. Visit "default.asp" and login as Admin.
   
   Username: admin
   Password: comeon
   
   * Please modify the admin password in the Profile page ASAP.

4. Browse to Administration -> General Settings, set some basic setings of your
   site. Note: "Site URL" is used for trackback and feed URLs, you must set it.

5. Enjoy.