Concrete5

By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 28th April 2010

What you will need:

All the information from you vCluster Details page and Database Settings page. This includes: access server, public IP, database server, username, database name (the same as your username), and your database password. For quick reference during the Concrete install, you may find it useful to copy these details into a text file.

The newest version of Concrete, available to download from http://www.concrete5.org/developers/downloads/

A file extractor that is compatible with the .zip format. OSX and Windows handle this format natively.

An FTP program. You can use a program like FileZilla, or if you use Firefox web browser, there is an FTP add on available called Fire FTP. If your not sure which client to use have a look at this article.

A text editor. Notepad or Text Edit will both be fine.

A web browser. We like Firefox.

The official Concrete install guide can be found in the downloaded folder called readme.txt

Extracting Concrete

Unzip your downloaded Concrete install to a folder on your desktop.

Uploading

To upload Concrete files to the root directory of your vCluster follow the FTP upload guide.

To upload Concrete files to a sub-domain on your vCluster follow the vHosting guide.

Installing Concrete

Now we’re going to install Concrete using your web browser. Fire it up and navigate to the directory name we just created: concrete.username.group.vc.catn.com/

Concrete will guide you through the installation process starting here: