.. _actpro-setup:

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Activation Pro Setup
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Setting up RLM Activation Pro involves setting up a web server with PHP and MySQL
support, as well as the RLM Activation Pro software. Ideally, you should be familiar with
downloading and installing open-source tools and using Web infrastructure. The
instructions for installing and configuring RLM Activation Pro are in :ref:`installing-actpro`.

However, you do not need to do any of that. You can evaluate RLM Activation Pro using
a system hosted on Reprise servers. If you do, ignore this chapter, and go straight to
:ref:`using-actpro`, below, once you get the login credentials from your Reprise
Salesperson. If you want to evaluate Activation Pro on your own servers, do the
installation specified in :ref:`installing-actpro` on your own servers, then
come back here to configure the system.

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Configure RLM Activation Pro
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1. Build your License Generator Settings file
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*  Change directory to your RLM development kit directory.
*  Run “rlmsign -gen”.
*  Copy the resulting .gen file (typically demo.gen for an evaluation) to
   your ActPro kit into the “actpro_setup” directory.

2. Install the RLM Activation Pro files on your web server
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(*Skip this step if you are using the demo on Reprise servers*)

*  FTP the contents of the actpro_setup directory to your web server.

3. Run the Activation Pro setup program
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(*Skip this step if you are using the demo on Reprise servers*)

*  On Windows: Run the XAMPP control panel. Start the Apache and
   MySQL services. On Linux, this happened as part of installation.
*  Point your browser (Firefox recommended) to: http://localhost/actpro_setup/setup.php
*  The defaults in the form should be correct, so press “Setup
   activation database”. Do not change the admin account password.