SilverStripe

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 SilverStripe install, you may find it useful to copy these details into a text file.

The newest version of SilverStripe, available to download from http://silverstripe.org/stable-download/

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 SilverStripe install guide can be found at http://doc.silverstripe.org/installation-on-webserver

Extracting SilverStripe

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

Uploading

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

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

Installing SilverStripe

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

You will see the first page of the SilverStripe installation, here you have to enter in the database configuration.

Below the database config is the admin account configuration.  You have to enter the email, password and name of the administrator.

Scroll back up to the top and click Install SilverStripe. It will redirect you to this page recommending that you delete the install files, we recommend this too for security.  Click the link it provides to delete them.

You will then be directed to a login page, which you can use to login to the admin panel.

SilverStripe is now installed!

Note: In a shared hosting environment such as CatN, there can be image uploading problems due to session cookies. This article: “Image upload stuck during processing” provides a fix.

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