Frog CMS

By Joe Gardiner Monday, 26th 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 Frog CMS install, you may find it useful to copy these details into a text file.

The newest version of Frog CMS, available to download from http://www.madebyfrog.com/download.html

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.

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

A web browser. We like Firefox.

The official Frog CMS install guide can be found in the downloaded folder called install.txt.

Extracting Frog CMS

Unzip your downloaded Frog CMS install to a folder on your desktop.

Uploading

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

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

Installing Frog

Now we’re going to install Frog CMS using your web browser. Fire it up and navigate to the directory name we just created: frog.username.group.vc.catn.com/ and add on “/install” e.g. frog.username.group.vc.catn.com/install.

Frog CMS will guide you through the installation process starting here:

Enter all of the relevant information:

Press install now and it will generate you an admin username and password.

Go back into Filezilla and right click on the config.php and click File Permissions.

Then uncheck all of the boxes except the three Read boxes.

Now in Filezilla delete the “install” folder.

Go back to the Frog Installation page and note down the password in a text notepad document. Click login page and enter the username and password shown on the previous page. It will redirect you to the Frog CMS Control Panel.

Frog CMS is now installed! It is recommended that you change your password to something more memorable, this can be done by clicking Administrator in the top right corner.

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