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Tutorials & FAQs: Scripts: Quick guide, Installing Mambo CMS

Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.

Content management system’s separates the content of a web site (the text, images, and so on) from the framework of linking pages together and controlling how the pages appear. In most cases, this is done to make a site easier to maintain than would be the case if it was built exclusively out of hard-coded html pages.

This Tutorial covers installing Mambo 5.4.2

For more information please visit the Mambo web site;
http://www.mamboserver.com/

Download page;
http://mamboforge.net/frs/?group_id=5
I recommend downloading the latest stable package of Mambo, at the time of writing this tutorial that is version 5.4.2

Prerequisites;
Before installing Mambo you must activate your CGI web space, and SQL database
If you are not familiar with using the Unix command line, please read the following;
http://usertools.plus.net/tutorials/id/18

This tutorial assumes that you have not already installed Mambo in your CGI web space.

Installing Mambo;
Login to the CGI server.

To install mambo in a subdirectory called `mambo`

mkdir mambo cd mambo wget http://mamboforge.net/frs/ download.php/6151/ MamboV4.5.2.3-stable.tar.gz tar xvfz MamboV4.5.2.3-stable.tar.gz fixphpperms.sh -r

Note; That it will take a few minutes for the `tar` and `fixphpperms.sh` cammands to run.

Configuring Mambo;
Mambo is configure using a webbroswer.
http://ccgi.username.plus.com/mambo/

Now follow the on screen prompts through the pre-installation check and the license.

Step 1, MySQL database configuration:
Enter your MySQL database details as advised by e-mail when you enabled your SQL database.

Step 2, Enter the name of your Mambo site:
Give your site a name.

Step 3, Confirm the site URL, path, admin e-mail and file/directory chmods:
Mambo should have filled in the URL and path fields correctly, just check these and add a contact e-mail address for administer e-mails.

The file and directory permissions should be left as server defaults.

Step 4; Congratulations! Mambo is installed;
Don’t forget to make a note of the administrator password.

Securing Mambo;
One last task is to remove the “installation” directory, to secure you Mambo.

Log back into the CGI server.

cd mambo rm -rf installation

Mambo is now installed.
You can now login to you very own Mambo site and start adding content.

Chilly

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Original Article by: chillypenguin - Edited by: chillypenguin