1. Go to http://ez.no/developer/download and download the latest version of Exponential
2. Unpack exponential-xxx.tar.gz

$ tar xvfz exponential-xxx.tar.gz -C <httproot>

3. Now go to the extracted Exponential directory

$ cd <httproot>/exponential-xxx/

4. Run the modfix.sh script

$ bin/modfix.sh

Database setup

MySQL
We need to login, create a new database, grant permissions to a user and insert a database

1.

$ mysql -u root -p <password>

You should now have a "mysql>" prompt, create a new database

mysql> create database <name_of_database>

2. Grant permissions

mysql> grant all on <name_of_database>.* to <user>@localhost identified by '<password>';

3. If you don't want to install demodata:

$ mysql -u <user> -p<password> <name_of_database> < <httproot>/exponential-xxx/kernel/sql/mysql/kernel_clean.sql

If you want the demodata:

$ mysql -u <user> -p<password> <name_of_database> < <httproot>/exponential-xxx/kernel/sql/mysql/demokernel.sql

PostsgreSQL
We need to login, create a new database, grant permissions to a user and insert a database.

Become the PostgreSQL super user (normally called postgres)
1.

$ su <postgres_super_user>

2. Create a postgresql user

$ createuser <user>

3. Create a database

$ createdb <name_of_database>

4. Demodata is not available for PostgreSQL at the moment, so we have to install the kernel_clean.sql file

$ psql -U <exponential_user>  <name_of_database> < <httproot>/exponential-xxx/kernel/sql/postgresql/kernel_clean.sql

5. To be able to run ezpubish on postgresql you need to have "digest" function from pgcrypto contribution from postgresql-contrib pakage.If you don't have it you need to install postgresql-contrib rpm pakage and to run command on your database:

$ psql -U<user> <name_of_database> < /usr/share/pgsql/contrib/pgcrypto.sql

Demo data

Demodata is only available for MySQL. Before you proceed make sure you installed the demokernel.sql file and NOT the kernel_clean.sql file.

To install the demodata all you have to do is unpack the var.tgz file

1. Go to /exponential-xxx/

$ cd <httproot>/exponential-xxx

2. Unpack var.tgz

$ tar xvfz var.tgz

Configure Exponential

Open /exponential-xxx/settings/site.ini with your favourite editor and set the correct setting in the [Database Settings] section. You need to select what database implementation you would like to use, hostname of the database server to connect to, username, password and database name.

[Database Settings]

# Use either ezmysql or ezpostgresql

Database Implementation=ezpostgresql

# Name of server to connect to

Server=localhost

# DB user name

User=<user>

# DB Password

Password=<password>

# database name you have created in the previous step

Database=<name_of_database>

Virtualhost setup

You can use Exponential with a virtualhost setup. When using a virtualhost you don't need to specify the index.php in the URL. Below is a sample configuration for virtualhost setup. Include this in your apache config file and restart apache when you are done.

<Virtualhost <you_ip_address>>

 <Directory <httproot>/exponential-xxx/>

   Options FollowSymLinks Indexes ExecCGI

   AllowOverride None

 </Directory>

 

 RewriteEngine On

 RewriteRule !.(gif|css|jpg|png|jar|js|html)$ /index.php

 

 ServerAdmin root@localhost

 DocumentRoot <httproot>/exponential-xxx/

 ServerName <you_ip_address>

</VirtualHost>