Open your
favorite web browser and run the
install.cgi by
typing in the URL to the file on your web server in the
location bar. Do not close your FTP program yet - you
may need to create some folders or change some file permissions
as the program runs. Follow the directions given.
The first screen is the license screen, submit to agree to the
license.
The second screen is the MySQL access data screen.
The first setting is 'localhost' on most servers, if your
MySQL database is located on another server, enter your
MySQL server hostname here, you will get this info from your
webhost or server admin.
Then enter your mysql details;
database name, username and password and submit, if you receive
an error here, your mysql access details are most likely incorrect.
Check with your webhost or server admin for correct MySQL access
details.
(in some server control panels, it is not enough to
create a database and a user, you must also allocate the user to
the database you created)
After you successfully submitted MySQL access details,
you will need to enter server paths on the third screen. The pre-defined server paths
are usually correct, however you must double check the paths
and permissions and
make corrections IF NECESSARY (you'll get your server path from your
web host).
On Windows server, make sure its the correct
server paths, starting with c:\\..\...
After you have successfully installed the
software, you will be given a link to the admin area on the
fourth screen,
if you don't see this link, then probably you have something
wrong in your way. Read the errors that are displayed on the
near top, and try again. If you're still not able to get
past, email send us an email with your ftp and mysql access details.
