Title: Trackserver, tutorial
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# Trackserver, tutorial

 *  [ehcloc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ehcloc/)
 * (@ehcloc)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trackserver-tutorial/)
 * Hi,
 * As I was a complete ignorant of WordPress, and I have only a basic HTML knowledge,
   I had some problems to have the trackserver up and running. I must say that the
   installation procedure described in the Trackserver plugin is really cryptic,
   and unless you have some previous experience in wordpress, not very helpful.
 * But eventually I achieved it, and I thought that perhaps my experience could 
   be useful for someone else, so I am writing this sort of tutorial of how I did
   it. If you find it useful, feel free to use it and correct it if you find any
   inaccuracy.
 * **Prerequisites**
 * A web server with wordpress installed (see requirements for wordpress).
 * **Installation procedure**
 * First yopu must have a wordpress web page in place, and go to the administration
   desktop.
 * Use WordPress’ built-in plugin installer, or copy the folder from the plugin 
   archive to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
    Activate the plugin through the‘
   Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 * Once you have the trackserver plugin installed and active, a track database is
   created. You can upload tracks to it (GPX format), and view them in a map. Also
   you can edit the name, source and include some comments.
 * You can access this database from the WordPress administration page selecting“
   Trackserver”, and “Manage Tracks”
 * Once you have this database in place you can build pages to present your tracks.
   It is reallly easy , just open the editor of the page and include the following
   sentence in the place were you want the map with the track to be presented:
 *  [tsmap track=xx] where xx is the track ID in the database
 * After this, you should see the map with the track in your web page. There are
   several presentation optinos, that can be found in the FAQ of the Trackserver
   plugin.
 * **Live tracking**
 * Live tracking allows the presentation of the track and the position of a mobile
   phone in real time, using one of the several mobile apps supported. See the description
   of the plugin. In the wordpress administration page “Trackserver” “Options” you
   can find the different services, and the settings required for each one (here
   you can find the “slug” to be set for the application to work).
 * I was already using Oruxmaps, so I configured the trackserver to use MapMyTracks
   settings.
 * Configure the slugs that the plugin will listen on for location updates.
 * In the Wodpress administration panel go to “Settings”, “Permalinks”
 * In the “Permalinks” screen select “Custom structure”, and in the corresponding
   field put the “slug” according the required setting. In my case, the slug was\
   mapmytracks
 * Configure your mobile apps and start tracking!
 * In the “options” of the trackserver you can find the URL to be set in the mobile
   application. Additionally you must set the userand password for the phone to 
   access the web page.
 * Once you have the mobile phone configured, whenever you start a new track, a 
   corresponding track is created in the trackserver database, which is updated 
   by the mobile application.
 * Use the shortcode [tsmap] to include maps and tracks in your posts and pages.
 * In order to present this Live track in the page, you must include the following
   sentence in the place were you want the map with the track to be presented:
 *  [tsmap track=live]
 * After this, you should see the map with the track in your web page. as before,
   there are several presentation optinos, that can be found in the FAQ of the Trackserver
   plugin.

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