Installation Prepartions
Installing the system requires a few simple steps. Before you begin the installation process there are a few pre installation steps required:
Creating your database and it’s user
Login into your servers control panel and create the database for the CMS Maestro to use. Create the database user and grant the user sufficient privileges to access and modify the database
Configure the Valente Online CMS Maestro to connect to the database
- Unpack the contents of the downloaded .zip / tar.gz CMS Maestro package. Locate and open the sample.dbconfig.php file in a plain text editor (Warning: do not open the file in a word processor). The sample.dbconfig file can be found in the core folder of the zip / tar.gz package. Edit the four values to reflect the details of you database:
- db: the name of your database, eg $db = ‘mydatabase’;
- Host: The url of your MySQL server; usually localhost, eg: $host = ‘localhost’;
- User: The username of the account set up to access the database, eg $user = ‘username’;
- Password: The password for the user’s account that was set up to access the database, eg: $pass = ‘mypassword123′;
- Save the updated file and save it in the core folder as dbconfig.php
Upload
Upload the contents of the extracted zip / tar.gz folder, along with the dbconfig.php file you created to your server, in the directory you wish to have the content management system to operate from
Installation
Now you are ready to begin the installation of the CMS Maestro on your server
Point your browser to the systems installation script,
ie if you uploaded the system to the public document root of your server, then the address of the installation script would be: http://www.mydomain.com/install.php
However if you uploaded the system to a sub folder then the installation script address would be: http://www.mydomain.com/somefolder-where-the-system-is-uploaded-to/install.php
You will then be presented with the installation screen. The installation screen will ask you to set your email address (which will also be your login username for the admin section), your desired password for the admin dashboard of the CMS Maestro and select the url structure for the website (note your server will require mod_rewrite to be enabled in order to use clean url’s, if you are unsure if your server supports this then leave this field as the default, you may always update this setting at a later stage)
If all goes well the system will install itself and set up the database, and then redirect you to the administration login.
That’s it, installation complete!
