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I running CMSms 1.0.8 on a hosted website. PHP Safe Mode is on/activated and can NOT be disabled ... this means that I can NOT use the Module Manager nor the Theme Manager via the web interface.

I would very much like to be able to install XML-packages (themes and modules) to my site. Is it possible to do this?

I found this post on manually installing XML-packages (modules): http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... l#msg51464

Is this the way? What does it mean to use a local server? Could someone explain the process to me in details, please? Thx a mill.!

Hello,

In the thread you link to, Cyberman has again well hinted : try XAMPP to set up a local server (on your computer) and install CMSms on it. As you are going to own this "hosting", you won't put restrictions (safe mode...) on it, you will be able to install XML stuff on it and then FTP from this local "hosting" to the actual internet hosting.

Pierre M.

It now know hope! As I'm on a Mac OSX - which has preconfigured Apache server - I already have an local server!!!

BUT just to be sure. Installing/importing XML-packages in CMSms (in the web-interface) does only extract files to the server? Nothing is written to the database during this import? Must be like this ... since I should be able to transfer the extracted files from my local server to my hosted web-server - but please confirm!

Thx for answering!

I don't know for sure if the database is changed too. It may depend of the modules.

But you can try to get the answer :
As you have no problem with local installs, install twice : /cmsms1 with db1 and /cmsms2 with db2. (make 2 dbs).
Then install the XML stuff in one and try to copy only files to two. If two works as expected, then you know it is only a matter of file copying and it is not database related.

Pierre M.