Hi Angus,
We are using it as well so Miltec and i can team-up on this one
Its actualy a fairly simple program (as aposed to others that is) and there's only a few things to focus on.
1] install the thing
2] set the correct ports
3] make it available on your site.
After installing you will find a new folder called rFactorHotlaps inside rfactor, thats the only folder you need to look into.
Make sure the ports (from the dedicated machine) are correct in some of them files inside the rfactorHotlaps directory within rfactor. get that wrong and nothing will work (for example my port needed to be 27011) and 'some of those files' are: hotlapsplugin.ini & rFactorHotlaps.properties (i think thats it, not 100% sure if there are more files that need this)
Once you got that sorted you want to publish it. Simply change the adress in the links provided in the pdf. so
http://62.149.202.177/rFactorLive is the link to be used on your website and gives the livefeed. and the IP adress should be the IP adress of your dedicated server.
Thats the basics to run the service.
To configure, a few items to know:
You can find 4 .htm files in \rFactorHotlaps\web, these htm files are the ones feeding results to your webpage(s)
Each htm file gives a different table of info on race results.
For example, we use 1 for livetiming, 1 for weekly results and 1 for the entire season of all championships. the 4th gets ignored or only used by admins behind the scene's.
(Each htm file can of course be altered to change appearance etc.)
The rFactorHotlaps.properties inside rFactorHotlaps\config will give you the opourtunity to change the values that are on display via the htm feeds. This file controls the entire configuration and it will require some testing and figuring out what you would like to show and what should be ignored.
I suggest not making to much changes at once in the .propeties file.
rFactorHotlaps uses its own results folder which it leaches off of the dedicated server btw.
I'm not sure if changes stick on a running service, i recall doing allot of stops/starts so if you are not getting results try stopping the service , make the changes, and start the service again. (using the bat files in the main folder)
Depending on the connection between server and site it can take a minute or so for the pages to become active again.
Thats about it for a quick guide, reading the pdf can freak you out, seems very complicated but it realy isn't.
Good luck!