XOOPS: PHP Web Portal System
Version: RC3
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Requirements
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* MySQL 3.23.xx and higher
* PHP 4.0.5 and higher
* a webserver (Apache 1.3.xx recommended)


Installation Procedure
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Unzip the package contents into the directory you want to use on you web server (local or remote), if you're unsure where that is, ask you system administrator.

1) Now, point your browser to:

http://yourdomain.com/install.php

2) Follow the instructions displayed on the screen

3) That's it!...

4) You will also "need" to chmod 755 or 777 all "cache" folders under the "modules" directory, and chmod 666 all files included in each cache" folder as listed below

 chmod 666
 - modules/system/cache/config.php
 - modules/system/cache/mainmenu.php
 - modules/system/cache/adminmenu.php
 - modules/system/cache/badips.php
 - modules/system/cache/badunames.php
 - modules/system/cache/badwords.php
 - modules/mylinks/cache/config.php
 - modules/mydownloads/cache/config.php
 - modules/xoopspoll/cache/pollsblock.inc.php

 chmod 777
 - images/avatar/users/
 - modules/xoopsfaq/cache/



5) After the installation, please delete the install.php and rc2_to_rc3.php files from your server.


*** If you had problems using the install script, please manually create tables using the sql dump file included in "extras" folder. To create tables manually, use phpMyAdmin or type in the following command from the command line:

mysql -u<username> -p<password> <databasename> < xoops.sql

This will create tables with the prefix "xoops_" and a user with username "webmaster" and password "webmaster".



Final Notes
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    That's it! You're done with the installation of XOOPS. Just navigate around, play with it, abuse it and if you like XOOPS, please use it. Spend some time getting used to the administration interfaces.

    A note for the XOOPS site's administrators: Only users that have been granted certain priviledges via the groups menu under system admin section has the admin right for each module.

