Public Media Manager 1.0

NewsCMS Installation Instructions

  1. Extract compressed pmm-cms package and upload to directory of your choice in your web server.
  2. Install the file /pmm-cms/NewsCMS/sql/newsdb.sql in your database. You can use a tool such as PHPMyAdmin to do this. Alternatively, if you have shell access to your web server, you can use MySQL’s command-line client to do this step.
  3. Edit the file, /pmm-cms/NewsCMS/newsdb/dbvars.php to reflect your database connection information, editing the user, password and database variables.
  4. Edit line 2 of the file /pmm-cms/NewsCMS/newsdb/config.php as necessary to reflect the installation directory that the NewsCMS folder was placed in on your web server. As an example, if you have placed the /pmm-cms directory in a directory called /projects in your web root, the value of $install_directory would be "/projects/pmm-cms/NewsCMS".
    1. Edit lines 3-18 of this same file to reflect your specific station information. Use the examples and the config file comments to determine what values to place in these variables.

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  1. Set the permissions (chmod) of the /pmm-cms/NewsCMS/news/audio and /pmm-cms/NewsCMS/news/images directories to 0777 (R/W/X for Owner/Group/Others). This is an important step--if these directories are not writable by the web server and by PHP, it will be impossible to upload audio and image files.
  2. At this point, NewsCMS is installed. You can access the Admin panel by visiting the "newsdb" directory at the path where you installed NewsCMS.
  3. The default admin user/password is admin/admin. You should change these values by editing the database fields as a security measure as soon as possible. Note that the password field in the "newsusers" table is PASSWORD() encrypted, so when storing a new password, be sure to encrypt it as such.