Installation/Pre345
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For information about v3.45 and later, please see Installation |
This page is for installing SiT on *nix systems, see Installation of FreeBSD and SiT for more detailed FreeBSD instructions and How To Install on Windows if you're one of those odd Windows types.
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Installation
If you are upgrading an existing installation please read the Upgrading page first.
SiT installation is very simple, see for yourself:
Requirements
You'll need at a server/host with the following software in order to run SiT.
See the installation requirements page for more detail.
Preparation
- Extract the SiT tar.gz file and copy the files to a directory on your web server
- In your browser visit
setup.phpwhich will take you through the installation steps
Step 1
As you start the setup process in your browser, setting up the database is the first step. Begin by creating a database, you can either use the button if the MySQL permissions allow or create this manually yourself. After this you need to fill in the setup form with all your details.
Step 2
If file system permissions allow, SiT will write the Config file, if not this needs to be saved manually to config.inc.php or alternatively, /etc/sit.conf
If SiT cannot write the config file automatically it will print a message "Could not write..." as shown in the image above. In this case you should copy the text of the configuration from within the box and paste it into a new text file called config.inc.php and then save this into your main SiT directory.
Once your config file has been created, you should make the file read-only.
Step 3
SiT will now create the database schema for you.
If you see any errors, you might want to check your MySQL database server is running and that the username, password and other database configuration is correct before trying again.
Step 4
You now need to choose a password and email address for the admin user.
Step 5
That's it! You're done. Go and enjoy SiT and read through some of the other help pages.
Configuring
You can now move on to configure your SiT install.
See Also
