QaTraq Professional License Installation

This guide takes you through the steps required to install the QaTraq Professional license file. Please select what you already have installed:

To see which version of QaTraq Professional you already have installed go to the QaTraq About page using the "About" button on the top menu or a URL similar to the one below. If the About.php page says you have "QaTraq 6.10.2 and QaTraq Pro Version 1.3.2" installed then you have the latest version of QaTraq Professional version installed.

http://YOURHOST/qatraq/about.php

If you do not have QaTraq Professional installed please download and install following the guide here: Download and install QaTraq Professional.

If you are running an old version of QaTraq Professional please download and upgrade to QaTraq Professional version 6_10_2 following the guide here: Upgrade from an old version of QaTraq

If you have installed QaTraq Professional using the windows installer (e.g. you downloaded and ran the qatraq_pro_6_10_2.exe application) then all you need to do to license QaTraq Professional is copy the license file to the correct directory and then restart QaTraq.

Check	Action	Command
	If you have not already done so purchase the Professional License or request a Trial License:	Purchase a License or Request a Trial License
	When you receive the licence file in the e-mail Traq Software send you copy the license zip file to the QaTraq license directory (this of course assumes you selected the default install location when you installed QaTraq):	C:\Program Files\QaTraq\htdocs\qatraq\licence
	Unzip the license file that you copied to the QaTraq license directory :	Right click on the license file and select "Extract All" Using the Windows Extraction Wizard ...... - Click Next to continue - Select the current directory to extract to... C:\Program Files\QaTraq\htdocs\qatraq\licence - Click Next - Click Yes to replace existing files - Click Finish
	Enable the licence by stopping and starting QaTraq with the following actions:	i) Close any running browser windows that are running QaTraq ii) Restart QaTraq by clicking on the QaTraq desktop icon

Your QaTraq Professional install should now be enabled. If you are having problems with the installation of the license file please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

This install process assumes you will, or already have, installed QaTraq Professional to a default directory of "C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\qatraq". If your QaTraq directory is different please adjust the following steps as necessary.

Check	Action	Command
	If you have not already done so download QaTraq Professional	qatraq_pro_6_10_2.zip
	If you have not already done so install QaTraq Professional	Install QaTraq Professional
	Install and/or enable Zend optimizer. If you are running with xampp you only need to enable the Zend optimizer. IMPORTANT: you must be running with version 3.0.0 or later of the Zend Optimizer The lastest version of the Zend Optimizer can be downloaded, for FREE, from here.	i) edit the following file with notepad.exe C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini ii) at the end of the file change (and remove the ";" characters)... [Zend] ;zend_extension_ts = "C:\Program........." ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts = "C:\Program ........" ;zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 1 ;zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15 to.... [Zend] zend_extension_ts = "C:\Program........." zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts = "C:\Program ........" zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 1 zend_optimizer.optimization_level=15 n.b. make sure the zend_optimizer.enable_loader value is set to 1 iii) restart apache in the XAMPP Control Panel Application click Apache 'Stop' when Apache shows as Stopped click Apache 'Start'

QaTraq Professional should now be running ready for the license file to be installed. Once you have obtained your Professional Licence file please complete the following steps:

Check	Action	Command
	If you have not already done so purchase the Pro Licence from	Purchase a License or Request a Trial License
	When you receive the licence file in the e-mail Traq Software Ltd send you copy the licence file to the following directory:	> copy qatraqpro.zl C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\qatraq\licence
	Enable the licence by completing the following actions:	i) edit the following file with notepad.exe C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini ii) at the end of the file change... ; zend_optimizer.license_path = to .... zend_optimizer.license_path = "C:\Program Files\xampp\htdocs\qatraq\licence" iii) restart apache in the XAMPP Control Panel Application click Apache 'Stop' when Apache shows as Stopped click Apache 'Start'

Your QaTraq Professional install should now be enabled. If you are having problems with the installation of the license file please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

This install process assumes you will, or already have, installed QaTraq Professional to a default directory of "/srv/www/htdocs". If your QaTraq directory is different please adjust the following steps as necessary:

Check	Action	Command
	If you have not already done so download QaTraq Professional	qatraq_pro_6_10_2.tar.gz
	If you have not already done so install QaTraq Professional	Install QaTraq Professional
	Intsall and/or enable Zend optimizer IMPORTANT: you must be running with version 3.0.0 or later of the Zend Optimizer The lastest version of the Zend Optimizer can be downloaded, for FREE, from here.	Some linux/unix distros come pre-installed with the Php/Zend optimizer. You will know if your distro has the optimizer installed if you see the line zend_optimzer line in the php.ini file described in step ii below (if it is not then see the section below on installing the zend optimizer from scratch). i) edit the following file with a text editor (vi, emacs, etc) /etc/php.ini ii) at the end of the file change (and remove the ";" characters)... [Zend] ;zend_extension_ts = "/usr/local/........." ;zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts = "/usr/local/ ........" ;zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 1 to.... [Zend] zend_extension_ts = "/usr/local/........." zend_extension_manager.optimizer_ts = "/usr/local/ ........" zend_optimizer.enable_loader = 1 n.b. make sure the zend_optimizer.enable_loader value is set to 1 iii) restart apache /etc/init.d/apache2 restart or /etc/init.d/apache restart or /usr/sbin/apachectl restar
	If the above zend optimizer enabling steps did not work for your platform then follow the steps on the right to download and install Zend Optimizer	i) go to the following Zend page and download the Zend Otptimizer for your platform (the Zend Optimizer is FREE, even though you have to click on the Buy Now link to download) http://www.zend.com/products/zend_optimizer Click 'buy now' (although the download is free) Select and download the "Zend Optimizer 3.0.1" for your platform ii) install the Zend Optimizer following the install instructions found in the "Zend Optimizer User Guide" which can be download using the same link given above. iii) the installation script for the Zend Optimzier should have restarted apache. If it has not restart Apache with one of the following: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart or /etc/init.d/apache restart or /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

QaTraq Professional should now be running ready for the license file to be installed. Once you have obtained your Professional Licence file please complete the following steps:

Check	Action	Command
	If you have not already done so purchase the Pro Licence from	Purchase a License or Request a Trial License
	When you recieve the licence file in the e-mail Traq Software Ltd send you, copy the licence file to the following directory:	> cp qatraqpro.zl /srv/www/htdocs/qatraq/licence
	Enable the licence by completing the following actions:	i) edit the following file with a text editor (vi, emacs, etc) /etc/php.ini ii) at the end of the file change or add the line... ; zend_optimizer.license_path = to.... zend_optimizer.license_path = "/srv/www/htdocs/qatraq/licence" iii) restart apache with one of the following: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart or /etc/init.d/apache restart or /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

Your QaTraq Professional install should now be enabled. If you are having problems with the installation of the license file please contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it