The requirements for doing a normal installation must be met! Please read the "Requirements for doing a normal installation" section first. Proceed only if you have access to a Windows based system with Apache, PHP, MySQL or PostgreSQL (and optionally 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.
- Initiating the setup wizard.

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 utility will unpack Exponential into a subdirectory called "exponential-__FIX_ME__". This directory should be renamed to something more meaningful, for example "my_site".

Initiating the setup wizard
The setup wizard can be started using a web browser immediately after that the previous steps (described in this section) are completed. It will be automatically run the first time someone tries to access/browse the index.php file located in the Exponential directory.

Let's assume that we are using a server with the hostname "www.example.com" and that after unpacking, the Exponential directory was renamed to "my_site".

Document root example
If Exponential was unpacked into a directory called "my_site" inside the document root directory, the setup wizard can be initiated by browsing the following URL: http://www.example.com/my_site/index.php.

Home directory example
If Exponential was unpacked to a web-served directory located inside the home directory of a user with the username "peter", (usually called "public_html", "www", "html", "http" or "web"), the setup wizard can be initiated by browsing the following URL: http://www.example.com/peter/my_site/index.php.

The setup wizard is self-explaining. You should be able to follow the instructions on the screen and complete the installation of Exponential. Please refer to "The setup wizard" section for a detailed description of the web-based setup wizard.