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After reading more about phpGedView and sifting through their online forums, it became clear that the authors expect phpGedView to be the web-based viewer of genealogical data and that GDBI will be used for editing this data. So I canned GRAMPS and pulled down gdbi-7-pgv.jar, the GDBI JAR file for phpGedView. A JAR is a Java Archive file, so of course Java is required to run it: java -jar gdbi-7-pgv.jar.

I won’t repeat what’s already in the documentation, but these fields required by GDBI could use some explaining: The URL is the location of your phpGedView website with /gdbi.php appended to it. So it should look something like http://www.example.com/phpGedView/gdbi.php. The GEDCOM is the name of the GEDCOM you uploaded to your site, e.g., my-family.ged. Leave the Read-only and Blank Editor boxes unchecked.

Make whatever changes you want, then just exit the program. To update the site, sign in to phpGedView. At the top-right of the page where is says logged in as (username), click on Admin. Choose the third item on the right side of the table Accept / Reject Changes.

At the bottom, under Import Gedcom, select my-family.ged – Import Gedcom. At the bottom of the next screen, select Continue Adding. On the next screen (Import GEDCOM), below Do you want to empty the dataset?, select the Yes button.