I am trying to install FrontAccounting on GoDaddy shared hosting using Microsoft IIS 8.5 and the Plesk website admin tool. I am a fairly experienced amateur programmer, pretty good at ASP.NET and C#, but practically no experience in PHP. I would like to use FrontAccounting for my social club, i.e., a very small not-for-profit organization. The initial attempt at FrontAccounting installation resulted in error 500 (without any clues as to its cause). I noticed the instructions near the bottom of the FrontAccounting installation guide under 'Troubleshooting' paragraph 2: it says "At the top of /includes/session.inc you will find this line :"; but the line itself appears to be missing. When I look at this file, there is no line that could be uncommented near the top except for the copyright notice. What needs to be done?
In the file root/index.php, I tried to insert at the top
$path_to_root=$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"];
Inserting 'die( ... )' statements here and there showed me that error 500 now occurs a little later in line
if (!file_exists($path_to_root.'/config_db.php'))
header("Location:".$path_to_root."/install/index.php");
I tried to insert $path_to_root=$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]; near the top of /install/index.php but that did not help.
I really like the concept of doing accounting via a website because it enables participation by several people in our club. Please help me over the initial hurdles of installation! Thanks!
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