Installing Mambo

[Loki God of Mischief]

Hi, apologies in advance for the formatting.. hopefully this helps as an adjunct to the documentation, this is how I successfully installed mambo.. hope it helps you.

 

Mambo installation

 

1. upload unpacked mambo files to directory for install

 

2. establish the database while you wait for the files to FTP up

 

·        access cpanel

 

·        access MySQL datatbases

 

·        create db (dbname)

 

·        create user and password (user password)

 

·        add user to database (button)

 

·        add access host localhost

 

3. edit the configuration.php (Rename configuration.php-dst to configuration.php if you haven’t already done so.)

 

Note: you may wish to edit this local and then FTP as cpanel editor can insert spaces at the end of the file, blank lines, that will cause errors.

 

·        account prefix here is xxxxxxxx - use your cpanel prefix and details of your database you have created.

 

·        $mosConfig_user = 'xxxxxxxx_user';

 

·        $mosConfig_password = 'password';

 

·        $mosConfig_db = 'xxxxxxxx_dbname';

 

·        $mosConfig_absolute_path = '/home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/mambo'

(Note: This path is IMPORTANT! and this is where you have a subdirectory called mambo, if installing at root level end at public_html)

 

·        $mosConfig_live_site = 'http://www.******/mambo';

(this is where you have a subdirectory called mambo, if installing at root level end at public_html)

 

4. Change the permissions on the folders, I use cpanel

 

707 images

 

707 media

 

707 uploadfiles

 

707 components

 

707 languages

 

707 modules

 

707 templates

 

707 administrator/backups

 

707 administrator/components

 

744 configuration.php

 

5. import the SQL into the database

 

·        edit the local (on your PC) mambo/sql/mambo.sql file to comment in (remove #) from the last 6 statements in the file (first of the 6 to edit starts INSERT INTO `mos_users` VALUES (62, 'Administrator')

 

·        access phpMyAdmin (link at the cpanel or if you can't see it on cpanel it's a small text link at the base of the MySQL Account Maintenance screen

 

·        Select the database that you have created in step 2

 

·        Click the SQL tab

 

·        In the “Or location text file” field browse to a local copy of the mambo files, SQL sub-directory and select mambo.sql to import

 

6. Login as admin

 

·        Access http://www.yoursite.com/mambo/administrator/

 

·        Use “admin” for login and password

 

·        Access the user profile and change the details for the admin and editor user (menu path site > user manager > add/edit user)

 

If you have no luck please see the forum post with the auto fault finder:

 

http://forum.mamboserver.com/viewtopic.php?t=8149

 

Copy the code, paste it into a new PHP file named whatever.. upload it to the same directory as configuration.php and view it in a browser.. showed me I had spaces on the end of my configuration.php file.. hence my note above ;-)

 

Good luck and enjoy the marvellous stuff people make for monkeys like me to use!