Running the Install

Now you are ready to run the install. Open your browser and type in the address to the folder you installed MPN into, and the file install.php. This should look something like this:

[ http://yourdomain.com/html/install.php ]

If you have the files uploaded and the address entered correctly, you should see the first page of the install.

Hey, why do I get a warning on the first page?

With the introduction of release 8 of myPHPNuke 1.8.8, we improved the configuration checking of the installation program. Since most web servers run PHP with "register_globals" set to "off", we have myPHPNuke adapted to run with this more secure and preferred PHP configuration. When you have problems with this settings, you may ask your provider for help or create a htaccess file for your myPHPNuke root directory containing this lines:

<IfModule mod_php4.c>
    php_flag register_globals on
</IfModule>
 			

When you are running your own web server, you're likely to have access to php.ini. You need to make an ALIAS and add the setting to this alias. Open the file php.ini in a text editor, browse for the beginning of the Alias section and add the following lines:


Alias /mpn1888 "C:/server/Apache/htdocs/mpn1888/html"


<Directory "C:/server/Apache/htdocs/mpn1888/html">
    Options Indexes FollowSymlinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    <IfModule mod_php4.c>
        php_flag register_globals on
    </IfModule>
</Directory>
 			

Don't forget to stop and start your Apache server when you are finished with these changes and then reload the install.php script in your browser as we told you to do before you got the error.

When everything installs just fine...

The installation program will make necessary changes to your configuration files and your database tables. When you do a fresh install, that's what you want and what you expect from the program. When you run the install program over an existing installation, these changes might be wrong for you, so make sure that you have a valid back-up set of your website. Most hosting providers give you the option to make a backup of your website through the Site Control Panel. Don't forget to make a back-up of your database tables to!

Please read the GNU and click next to continue with the setup. The GNU covers important information concerning copyright and distribution of MPN. If you plan on using this for anything other than your personal use, it is highly recommended that you read it.

User Contributed Notes
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steveneven1979 at yahoo dot co dot uk
04-Feb-2005 10:18
#2
advised to go to http://yoursite.com/html/install.php

this resulted in a page can not be found.

if you get this also, then try:

http://yoursite.com/install.php

[editor] Don't get mislead by this advise. It is only true if your site is installed in the root directory of your hosting account. You should replace /html/ with the correct directory name of your installation. That could be root but also something very different. You know into which directory you have copied the files.
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arjan dot van dot waay at myphpnuke dot com
12-Jul-2005 8:24
#6
Warning: there is currently an error in the above manual text. Where the word php.ini is printed, you should read that as httpd.conf.

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