WAIT! Did you know that you get FREE INSTALLATION of DAP? But if you must to do it yourself, then here you go 
1. Download & Unzip Files
Log in to your member’s area at http://DigitalAccessPass.com/dap/ . Download the following 2 files…
a) dap.zip
b) DAP-WP-Livelinks.zip
Unzip the two zip files (separately) to your desktop. You should see 2 folders named dap and DAP-WP-LiveLinks.
WARNING: After you unzip the folders, you should NOT see a “dap” folder within the “dap” folder, or a “DAP-WP-LiveLinks” folder within the “DAP-WP-LiveLinks” folder. If you do, then in both cases, it is the inside “dap” folder or the inside “DAP-WP-LiveLinks” folder that’s important. Get rid of the outer one, and upload only the inner “dap” folder and the innert “DAP-WP-LiveLinks” folder, as explained below.
2. Upload Files
a) Upload the entire dap folder on your computer, to the root of your web site. The root directory is where your web site’s home page is usually located. This directory also goes by the name “public_html” or “www” or “htdocs”.
WARNING: You may not rename the dap folder to anything else. The name of the folder MUST be dap, and regardless of where your blog is (in the main folder, or in a sub-folder), the dap folder must be in your root directory.
Once this is done, the dap folder should be accessible by at http://www.Example.com/dap/ – but wait – don’t visit that link yet.
b) Upload the entire DAP-WP-LiveLinks folder (including the folder too) to your WordPress plugins directory, which is wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate Plugin
Log in as WordPress admin, go to the “Plugins” page, and activate the DAP-WP-LiveLinks plugin. Just activating the plugin installs the DAP tables in the same database as your WordPress blog.
If there are any errors, you will see them on your screen. If not, you will see a message that says that installation is complete, with just one final step remaining (see below).
You will also see the email and password for the DAP Admin account that has just been created for you.
There is no need to log in separately to the DAP Admin Control Panel, as you have already been logged in as DAP admin during the installation.
But save this DAP admin login info for future reference.
4. Permalinks Update (final step)
Within the WordPress admin control panel, go to “Settings > Permalinks”.
Under the section “Customize Permalink Structure”, pick any option other than “Default“.
IMPORTANT: Regardless of whether you made any changes on this Permalinks page or not, you MUST click on “Save Changes”.
REPEAT: Don’t forget to click on “Save Changes” whether you changed the permalink structure or not.
5. Access DAP
You will now see a new link on your WordPress Admin Menu (bottom left, below “Settings”) called “DigitalAccessPass”. Click on that link to access your DigitalAccessPass Admin Control Panel.
6. Setting Up Cron
This step is not required to just get started with using and learning DAP. But it is required when you are ready to start sending out autoresponder and broadcast emails, or processing affiliate commissions. Also required if you’re doing email-order processing of recurring payments through 1shoppingcart or 1SiteAutomation.
It is critical that the cron job(s) is setup before you go live. So click here for the instructions.
15 comments ↓
Guess Im the first one here !
Looking forward to using this plugin.
Good job Ravi,
Jamie Dunne
Jamie, yes, you’re the first one – after the 1st birthday of DAP yesterday
- Ravi
[...] standard procedure for installing DAP (OR) upgrading your DAP & LiveLinks versions. Nothing different [...]
[...] standard procedure for installing DAP (OR) upgrading your DAP & LiveLinks versions. Nothing different [...]
These are nice simple instructions *if* you’re planning on using WordPress. How do you do the install if you are *not* planning on using wordpress? I want to start with just a “plain old HTML/PHP” web site! So what is the install procedure?
Also, for testing purposes, I want to try playing with DAP on a Windows XP install with XAMPP 1.7.3 – which is working GREAT for the rest of my PHP/HTML testing!
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Brad,
See this link for installing DAP on a non-wordpress, plain HTML web site…
http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/doc/dap-installation-non-wordpress/
- Ravi Jayagopal
[...] standard procedure for installing DAP (OR) upgrading your DAP & LiveLinks versions. Nothing different [...]
Just a note that when you unzip the dap.zip file, it creates a nested file structure, like this: dap/dap/all other files. Make sure when uploading that you upload the *internal* dap folder, not the top-level one.
The plugin file structure is fine as is, and can actually be uploaded from within WordPress.
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Installation very easy, can’t wait for DAP to go live on my website
Thanks for the quick set up, works a treat!
A Lover of DAP!
With Gratitude
Lolly
So far so good, I have tested installing DAP on my test site. Thanks for the easy to follow instructions!
Once I am ready to build my live site, will there be any problems when I remove my license key from my test site and use it on my live site?
>>Once I am ready to build my live site, will there be any problems when I remove my license key from my test site and use it on my live site? <<
If you have 1 site license that you are currently using on your test site, then when you are ready to go live, open a support ticket with us with the names of your current test domain and the new domain, and we will update your license.
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