Symphony

By Joe Gardiner Wednesday, 28th April 2010

What you will need:

All the information from your CatN 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 Symphony install, you may find it useful to copy these details into a text file.

The newest version of Symphony, available to download from http://symphony-cms.com/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 Symphony install guide can be found at http://symphony-cms.com/learn/tutorials/view/install-symphony/

Extracting Symphony

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

Uploading

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

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

Installing Symphony

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

This is the first install page, where you enter all the information and configuration settings.