Chapter 3.  Installation of myPHPNuke on your website

Table of Contents

Unpacking and copying the files
Unpacking the files from the distribution kit
Copy the files to the server
Directory and File Permissions
Directory Permission details
File Permission Details
Running the Install
Hey, why do I get a warning on the first page?
When everything installs just fine...
Database Settings
Verify Database Information
Administration Setup
Verify Data
Finishing the Install

Unpacking and copying the files

Unpacking the files from the distribution kit

Create a new directory on your local machine. Extract all the files from the distribution kit (it's available in Windows Zip format and Unix tar.gz format) into this new directory (don't overwrite your existing directories, if you do so, you loose all your modifications and configuration files!

Copy the files to the server

Use your favourite ftp or scp program to copy the files from your local computer to the web server directory. When you copy the files to a subdirectory in your web server's document directory, you are able to create a new copy of the site in a different subdirectory of your website without interfering with your current installation. When you are sure that there will always be only one (version of this) website on this web server, you can copy the files to the root of your web server's document directory.

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dean_spam_me_here@collins.net.pr
09-Jul-2005 8:06
#5
This may be a totally newbie tip but I didn't understand from the explanation above if you are copying to a linux server the folder you need to copy it to is

/var/www

and if you want to follow the instructions to the letter on the next page you need to copy across all of the files contained within the html folder you just extracted (including the html folder).

[editor]
The above directory may be valid for your personal Linux system but it is not necessary the same for other machines. Every webserver has it's own setup and has it's own set of directories that are used to serve files. On a Linux machine where you have multiple user accounts, the user's directory often contains a directory public_html which is the directory to be served by the webserver for that user account.

We assume that, when you setup a website, you know what directory is your website's directory. Most of the time, these details are set by the systemadministrator or hosting provider.
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