New Installation

Folder/File Setup

• First Download the latest Geeklog 1.4x
• Download the tarball into any directory.
• move the file to your webroot

tar -zxvf geeklog*.tar.gz

• Change into the GeekLog directory

cd geeklog-1.4.x

• Copy all files to your primary directory with

cp -Rf * /home/username/public_html

• Change the access rights in the directories:

chown -R webuser:webuser *
chmod -R 755 logs
chmod -R 755 backups
chmod -R 755 data
chmod -R 755 public_html/backend
chmod -R 755 public_html/images/articles
chmod -R 755 pulic_html/images/topics
chmod -R 755 public_html/images/userphotos/

Configure

• Edit /home/username/public_html/lib-common.php and update your path to the GeekLog files (only one line).

require_once( '/home/username/config.php' );

• Edit /home/username/config.php and enter your parameters for:

$_DB_host = 'localhost';
$_DB_name = 'geeklog';
$_DB_user = 'geeklog';
$_DB_pass = 'your_password';
$_DB_table_prefix = 'gl_';
$_CONF['path'] = '/home/username/public_html/';

Database

• Create your mysql database, mysql account, grant privileges to mysql account.
• As root create the mySQL database and access rights:

$ mysql -u root
mysql> create database geeklog_db;
mysql>grant all on geeklog.* to geeklog@localhost identified by 'yourgeeklogpassword';
mysql>quit

Install

• run www.yourdomain.foo/admin/install/install.php
• click on desired options
• login to your page using default Admin/password
• change password
• remove directory public_html/admin/install