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Building Websites with e107

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Building Websites with e107

Overview of this book

e107 is a PHP-based content management system that uses the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. e107 is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is completely free, totally customizable and in constant development. It is an ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more. It has a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users.If you want to create a powerful, fully-featured website in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore e107, putting you in the picture of what it offers, and how to go about building a site with the system. The book covers all the core features of e107, and it is thorough and incremental tutorial approach it gives you the understanding to experiment with advanced features and customization.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building Websites with e107
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface

Running the Installation Script


Now that we have finished changing the core permissions close your FTP client, open up your web browser, and navigate to the URL where your files are located. In my case, that is http://www.cuddlecare.biz but if you have another domain name, just substitute your URL or browse http://www.yourdomain.com.

If you are using Windows with the Apache server then locate your installation where you specified your folder structure when you installed Apache. Usually this will begin with http://localhost/html/cuddlecare.

Now follow along with me as we finish our installation:

Stage 1

If, all the files were successfully uploaded you will see the first page of the install script. It will give you an option for the language you wish to use during the configuration.

Select Set Language to proceed to the next stage.

Stage 2

Now, it is time to create our database. This will happen in one of the following two ways depending upon your access.

Root Access

If you have root access...