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@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ Can be run under either php's built in web server or under any web server with p
 Ignores any API key specified in the OpenKJ.
 
 If you were serving this from a web server as http://10.0.0.1/requestserver, you would configure the server URL in OpenKJ to point to http://10.0.0.1/requestserver/api.php 
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+settings.inc should be edited with an appropriate database path that the webserver has write access to.  If the database file doesn't exist, it will be created automatically.