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FORIC instructions
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0. Precondition: 
A web server with PHP installed is required. If you do not have a web server, you can install XAMPP, an Apache distribution that includes MariaDB, PHP, and Perl. XAMPP can be installed on Windows, Linux, and OS X. Download it here https://www.apachefriends.org/

1. Download ForiC
The ForiC package can be downloaded from http://bioinfo.matf.bg.ac.rs/home/downloads.wafl?cat=Software&project=ForiC

2. Unpack downloaded archive
Extract the contents of the downloaded archive.

3. Deploy Unpacked Data to Your Server
If you have installed XAMPP, copy the unpacked archive to the htdocs folder (typically C:\xampp\htdocs), resulting in the path C:\xampp\htdocs\ForiC.

4. Start the ForiC
Start the URL from your server. If you have installed XAMPP, open your browser and type localhost/foric. This is the usual URL, depending on your installation settings.

* Note: 
If you encounter an error when uploading larger files, you can override the server settings. For XAMPP, follow these steps:
- Stop PHP
- Open C:\xampp\php\php.ini
- Modify the following attributes:
	- max_execution_time to adjust the maximum execution time.
	- post_max_size to increase the maximum size of uploaded files (e.g., set to 15M).
- After making these changes, restart PHP.

* Note:
If needed, the default values for basic validation parameters can be modified in the _parameters.php file.