Setup

Before installing - even in automatic (browser) or manual mode - you will have to publish the Drake CMS files to your webserver.

Installing Locally

Unzip the distribution package into a directory under your web server root. If you are using the Apache web server, this is typically c:/apache group/apache/htdocs on the Windows OS and /usr/local/apache/htdocs on a UNIX system but it may vary particularly on hosted servers and between different "brands" of Linux.

We are assuming you have established a working web server, with the necessary requirements previously detailed, and that you know where to put files to display on the web server.

Installing remotely

If you only have FTP access to your hosting you will have to upload all the files contained in the Drake installation archive to your webserver, or else use the Veloce script.

Mass upload

  1. Set your FTP client to auto
  2. Browse to the folder you decompressed the files into
  3. Connect via FTP to your host
  4. Upload all files and folders into your root folder or the folder you have designated for the site
  5. Assign 0777 file permissions to all uploaded files and folders (if possible) and close the FTP connection

Using the self-extracting Veloce script

If your host has a very strict Safe Mode enabled (a very bad and useless practice, anyway) you will not be able to upload files in folders created by any PHP script.

  1. Set your FTP client to auto
  2. Download the PhpTarBackup archive and upload the file veloce.php through FTP to your webserver
  3. Connect via FTP to your website server
  4. Upload the Drake installation tarball archive as it stands (.tar.gz extension)
  5. run veloce.php using your webbrowser
  6. follow the extraction steps
  7. when finished click "Exit & Delete"
  8. continue Drake installation as usual