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* Select '''MENU-Administration'''. | * Select '''MENU-Administration'''. | ||
* On left panel of Administration screen, select '''Load Game Box'''. | * On left panel of Administration screen, select '''Load Game Box'''. | ||
* Now you can follow the instructions in the | * Now you can follow the instructions in the Game Box Upload Process section of the [[BOARD18 Author's Guide]] to do any number of uploads. | ||
==How to load a new BOARD18 game box using Linux== | ==How to load a new BOARD18 game box using Linux== | ||
Revision as of 11:05, 18 July 2016
How to load new BOARD18 game boxes using the Administration - Load Game Box feature
These instructions assume that you are the administrator or author of a BOARD18 web site.
Perform these steps on your local PC
- Browse to the Download Game Boxes WIKI page and find the game boxes that you want.
- Download the zip file for each of these game boxes.
Perform these steps on your web browser
- Sign on to BOARD18.
- Select MENU-Administration.
- On left panel of Administration screen, select Load Game Box.
- Now you can follow the instructions in the Game Box Upload Process section of the BOARD18 Author's Guide to do any number of uploads.
How to load a new BOARD18 game box using Linux
Note: This procedure is depricated. It will soon be removed.
These instructions assume that you already have a BOARD18 web site. See How To Create a BOARD18 WEB Site if you don't yet have one.
Perform these steps on your local PC
- Browse to the Download Game Boxes page and find the game box that you want.
- Download the zip file for this game box.
- Using FTP or SCP, move this zip file to your web server.
Perform these steps on your Linux web server
- Extract the zip file into your shell root directory.
- Move the sub directory [which contains the image files] to the images sub directory of your web root directory.
- Move the .json file to the control sub directory of the utility directory.
- Change to the utility directory.
- Load the control file for the game box by entering on the command line:
php loadGameBox.php control/boxname.json