NMDeluxe Installation Guide

Welcome...

Welcome to the NMDeluxe installation guide. This guide is here to help guide you through the initial installation of NMDeluxe on to your server. If at any point you have any problems, please feel free to post on our Support Forums or take a look at some of the guides in our Wiki.

Before you start...
Before you start installing NMDeluxe, please make sure that your includes directory is CHMODDED to 0777 (Note, this only applies on *NIX servers). Please also make sure that you have created a MySQL database for NMDeluxe.

Step One...
The first step is simply an introduction. Once you've read the page you can proceed to step two.

Step Two...
Step two is simply the GPL license agreement that NMDeluxe is released under. Once you've read it you may proceed to the next step.

Step Three...
Step three created your configuration file and connects to your MySQL database. You need to enter the following information into the fields before proceeding:

MySQL Host - The MySQL server to use (Default is "localhost")
MySQL Username - The username for the database you have created (Must have read/write permissions)
MySQL Password - The password for the user that will be connecting to the database
MySQL Database - The name of the database you will be using (Make sure the database exists first)
MySQL Prefix - Not required, but recommended. This will add a prefix to the begining of each table (I.E the 'config' table would be nmd_config)

Once you've entered the above details you may proceed to step four.

Step Four...
All going well you should see a message above the table saying 'Configuration Settings Written To File!'.

In this step you need to enter some details about your site. The information required is as follows:

Installation URL - The URL to your NMDeluxe installation (e.g http://www.example.com/nmdeluxe/)
Upload Path - The directory path where uploads will be stored (e.g /home/username/public_html/nmdeluxe/uploads/)
Site Path - The directory path to your site (e.g /home/username/public_html/nmdeluxe/)
Default Username - This is the primary user's username that is used to login with.
Default User Password - The password for the default user
Default User Title - The title for the default user (when a post is made the value of this field will be shown as the author).

Proceed to the next step to continue...

Step Five...
The installation is now complete! You're ready to use NMDeluxe. Before you do though you need to DELETE THE INSTALL DIRECTORY...do not rename it! This is for your own website's security to prevent someone wiping your database by re-installing NMDeluxe.

You're all done...
That was quite easy now wasn't it :)

If you require assistance please feel free to make a post in our Support Forums. Also take a look at our Wiki for some useful articles on customizing your installation.

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