Welcome to GenieGate! unfortunately, we've found some (hopefully minor!) problems. If none of this makes sense to you, please feel free to contact us. We'll do everything we can to get you up and running.
Unable to find your ~/geniegate/ directory. Your HOME directory on this machine is detected as: "/home1/alexsha3"
Recommended ~/geniegate/ directory: /home1/alexsha3/geniegate
You may click this link for additional detection and help.
In a standard installation, you should have your ~/geniegate files in this directory. Please copy the ~/geniegate files to the above directory.
You should have a /home1/alexsha3/geniegate directory after this step. (NOTE: some FTP programs may show this as "/geniegate")
If the recommended directory is not suitable, there are two alternative ways of placing it elsewhere.
If your version of Apache supports the SetEnv directive, you may add this line to an .htaccess file:
In your .htaccess file
SetEnv GENIEGATE_HOME /path/to/your/geniegate/directory/
Setting a definition in your doconf.php file
/* This will manually set the GENIEGATE_HOME path */ define('GENIEGATE_HOME','/path/to/your/geniegate/directory/');
IMPORTANT The files in your ~/geniegate/ directory should NEVER be web accessible, you should not be able to load them in a web browser, they are never used in that manner, only the web/ files need to be stored in web server space.
This directory contains sensitive files (such as your database settings) which are not to be made web accessible.
If you have absolutely no alternative but to place them in web space you should contact your ISP and bug them about it, explain to them that you need some place to store files that are intended only for server-side programs and should not be served to web browsers.
You might also contact us, we have some "options of last resort" you can use if they refuse to give you an "off the web" storage area. This problem affects far more than GenieGate, this issue is a potential problem for many server-side programs.