Impress CMS

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 Impress install, you may find it useful to copy these details into a text file. The newest version of Impress, available to download from http://sourceforge.net/projects/impresscms/files/ 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 Impress install guide can be found at http://wiki.impresscms.org/index.php?title=Installation_Guide.

Extracting Impress

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

Uploading

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

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

Installing Impress

Now we're going to install Impress CMS using your web browser. Fire it up and navigate to the directory name we just created: impress.username.group.vc.catn.com/ and add on “/htdocs/install/index.php” e.g. impress.username.group.vc.catn.com/install/htdocs/install/index.php. Impress CMS will guide you through the installation process starting here:

Complete each of the stages, pressing the arrow in the bottom right to continue through each one. When you get to Database Connection, use the connection information from the vCluster settings page.