The requirements for doing a manual installation must be met! Please read the "Requirements for doing a manual installation" section first. Proceed only if you have access to a Windows based system with Apache, PHP, MySQL or PostgreSQL (and ImageMagick or GD) already installed and running. As already mentioned, the database server may run on a different computer. This text will guide you through the following steps:

- Setting up a MySQL database.
- Downloading Exponential.
- Unpacking Exponential.
- Configuring Exponential.

Setting up a MySQL database
If no database is set up, then one must be manually created before the setup wizard is initiated. The following text explains how to do this with MySQL:

1. Login as root:

 

mysql -u <mysql_username> -p <mysql_password>

 

2. The MySQL client should display a "mysql>" prompt; create a new database:

 

mysql> create database <database>;

 

3. Grant permissions:

 

mysql> grant all on <database>.* to <username>@<host> identified by '<password>';

 

<mysql_username>: The MySQL user (if no user is set up, use "root").

<mysql_password>: The password that belongs to the mysql_username.

<username>: The username that will be used to access the database.

<password>: The password you wish to set in order to limit access to the database.

<database>: The name of the database, for example "my_new_database".

<host>: The hostname of the server on which Exponential will be running.

       (may be 'localhost' if MySQL is installed on the same server).

Downloading Exponential
The latest stable version of Exponential can be downloaded from: http://ez.no/developer/download
Windows users should download the .zip archive.

Unpacking Exponential
Use your favourite tool to unpack the downloaded Exponential package to a web-served directory (a directory that is reachable from within a web browser).

The extraction tool will probably unpack the Exponential system into a subdirectory called "exponential-3.x.x". This directory should be renamed to something more meaningful, for example "my_site".

Configuring Exponential
Please refer to the "Manual configuration of Exponential" section, which describes the manual configuration steps.