Hello!
Obviously the best way to earn from PTC sites it to own your own PTC site! I myself have just started to indulge in this. The set up is not the best but I know that in time I will improve on the original site. With improvement of the site comes improvement in customers and clickers. To view what I have so far you can go to this link:
As you can see it is a very basic set up. For a PTC site to work properly the set up is of least importance, PHP coding is the most important. For getting people to sign up for your site, the set up becomes drastically more important. As I am going through this journey, I am learning and compiling all the data I have gained to better myself and everything around me. So let's start getting to the basics of setting up your own PTC site.
Step 1.
You are going to need a few things before beginning this journey just so you don't need to stop your creation process to download something.
First you are going to need to download an FTP Manager. What this will do is take all of the PHP files for your PTC site and put it into your file manager online. You can get one for free called filezilla. download the client at www.filezilla-project.org. MAKE SURE ITS THE CLIENT VERSION 3.7.3 AND NOT THE FILEZILLA SERVER 0.9.41.
Second you are going to need a host and a domain name. A free one will be 0fees.net. Go there, sign up, get a domain name and an online file manager. MAKE SURE YOU SAVE ALL THE INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR SITE (FTP hostname, username, MySQL hostname, username etc...
Third you need to download OR create your own PTC script. I would give you the link to one but you need to buy it for yourself (or code it yourself). A good one to buy is Gen4 PTC script. It costs almost $100 for a lifetime key to open your site. You can only get the key to your script through the site itself.
Step 2.
Now comes the fun part! Go to your host website and login. Go to the "MySQL Databases" File and create 2 databases. 1 named User and the other named Admin. Follow the admin database over to the admin button. Click on it. Once the page loads go to the upload button. Upload your database. This will be the file ending in .SQL. It might say database.SQL db.SQL or install.SQL. Click "go" once you have found the file and wait for it to upload.
Follow the instructions that come with your script but most likely you will need to edit a PHP file. For most it is in the library (or LIB, Includes) folder. Edit the file called Lib-database. Where the code says "Username" "Password" "database" etc. Insert the information your host gave to you, SQL database for database, host username, host password etc. Save your files and move on.
Take your FTP hostname (ftp.0fees.net from 0fees.net only!), your username, password. Open filezilla, enter the information, then quickconnect. If you need help with this or anything feel free to ask me for help. Go to the top and click "transfer- transfer type- Binary" very important. You should see two sides to the client. The left side is your computer and the right side is your web server. Now on the left side, find the folder that your PTC script is located in. On the right side MAKE SURE you highlight the htdocs folder. If there is none then right click on the "/" folder and create directory. Go to the left side of filezilla where it says filename, filesize etc. Click 1 time on the first folder to just highlight it, then scroll to the last file, which should be a .PHP file, hold shift and click on it so that ALL of the files in your script folder are highlighted. Now make sure htdocs is still highlighted as well as all of your script files. Right click on the script files and hit Upload. All of your files should now be uploading to your websites htdocs folder.
Depending on the script you get, you might have to change the accessibility to certain files. Check your script instructions for more information on this. The way you do this is go to your host and click on "online file manager"- open up htdocs folder - find the script folder the files are in - check off the files you need - click on "CHMOD".
Step 3.
Type in your free domain name into the internet browser and check to see if it is up and running. If it is not, let me know and I will help. At the end of your domain name put in /admin or /admin.php. Try the other one if one does not work. If neither work check your script files for the admin file. Normally it is called admin though. Through the http://www.yourdomain.com/admin.php you can log in as admin (check your script for admin login) and edit the rest of your site!
Good Luck with your PTC site! Thank you for reading!
Mike Nekro
