Next Steps

Now that you have finished installing and testing RLM Activation Pro, what are the next steps when you decide to purchase?

This Getting Started Guide covers one of the 3 possibilities for you, the RLM ISV:

  1. You do not use an ISV-defined hostid, and your base RLM license enables the platform where you plan to run the Activation Pro license generator. This will be true for a majority of ISVs and is the case covered by this guide.

  2. You do not use an ISV-defined hostid, and your base RLM license does not enable the platform where you plan to run the Activation Pro license generator.

  3. You use an ISV-defined hostid.

For cases (2) and (3), above, you should consult the RLM Activation Pro Manual for the steps to configure Activation Pro in your situation.

If you fall into case (1), above, and you are ready to install RLM Activation Pro for production, the next step would be to re-build the Activation Pro software with your permanent RLM license (license_to_run.h file) and your Activation Pro license, in place of the demo licenses you used here. Then you would install the software on your production servers. To do this, you would FTP the contents of the kit actpro_setup directory to the htdocs directory on your web server.

Once on your production web server in the htdocs/actpro_setup directory, run the setup.php script to set up your production server. From that point on, the procedure is just like what you did in this demo.

Note

If you are going to host your servers at your ISP, many ISPs have naming conventions for MySQL databases, and, in addition, many ISPs will not allow you to create a new database from a script, the way that Activation Pro’s setup.php software does it. If this is the case, simply create the database manually using your ISP’s administration tools, then run setup.php after the database is created.

One thing we have not talked about in this guide is what to do if you use an RLM ISV-defined hostid (case (3) above). If you have an ISV-defined hostid, you will need to set up the MySQL Connector/C development libraries in order to build a custom license generator. This is beyond the scope of this document, but it is described in the RLM Activation Pro Manual, which is available by clicking on the “Manual” button in the GUI.