SMF

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

The newest version of SMF, available to download from http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php

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 SMF install guide can be found at http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=10

Extracting SMF

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

Uploading

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

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

Installing SMF

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

This first page is where you enter in the site settings and database settings.  You can find the database settings in your CatN settings.  When you’ve entered them, click proceed.

This second page is the admin account settings, you also need to enter the database password again for security.  Click on finish.

It is recommended that on this page that you click the box to delete the index.php file, and you change the permissions on the install directory.  SMF is now installed!

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