Recent news WebMO 8.0 is now available for free download! WebMO 8.0 Pro and Enterprise have a variety of additional features and is available for purchase. WebMO can now be installed on Windows, Mac, and Unix servers!
July 4, 2008

These instructions are to be used for upgrading an existing WebMO configuration. To install a copy of WebMO for the first time, refer to the WebMO installation instructions instead.

1. Locate your WebMO license number and globals.int file. Login to WebMO as admin and click Version Manager. Note:
   • the WebMO license number
   • the full path of the WebMO globals.int file
   These are necessary to download the WebMO update and to install the update, respectively.
   
2. Download the most recent version of WebMO. If you have misplaced your WebMO password, enter the license number from the previous step with a password of "?" on the download page, and your password will be automatically emails to you.
3. Upload the WebMO distribution from your PC to your web server.
   
4. Backup your current WebMO installation. For example,
   $ tar cvf webmo_backup.tar {cgiBase} {htmlBase} {userBase}
   where {cgiBase}, {htmlBase}, and {userBase} are specified in the globals.int configuration file.
5. Login to your web server account, uncompress, and untar the WebMO archive.
   $ tar xzf WebMO.8.x.xxx.tar.gz
   
6. Run the upgrade script.
   $ cd WebMO.install
   $ perl upgrade.pl
   
7. Follow the prompts in the upgrade script. Specify the absolute location of your globals.int file. After the distribution files are copied, the command line portion of WebMO upgrade is complete.
   
8. If you are upgrading WebMO Pro and have configured any remote servers, copy the new scripts to the remote servers. Login to WebMO as admin, click the Remote Server Manager, choose the edit servers tab, and click the Upgrade icon for each server.
   
9. Login to WebMO as a user and run a test job.
   
10. If you wish to install additional computational chemistry programs on your unix computer, see the separate support pages for installing binary or source versions of Gamess, Gaussian, Molpro, Mopac, Nwchem, Qchem, and Tinker. Then enable, configure, and test these packages as described above.
11. Questions or feedback? Please visit the WebMO Support Forum or send email to support@webmo.net.