1. Go to http://ez.no/developer/download and download the latest version of Exponential.
2. Unpack the downloaded file

Database setup

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

1. Open a console window (start->run->cmd.exe or start->run->command.exe depending on the Windows version)

2. Go to your the location of mysql and find the mysql.exe file (should be under bin)

3. Run

mysql.exe -u root -p <your_mysql_password>

4. You should now have have a mysql> prompt. Type these mysql statements

mysql> create database <name_of_database>;

5. Grant permissions

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

6. If you don't want demodata

$ mysql.exe -u <user> -p<password> <name_of_database> < <httproot>exponential-xxxkernelsqlmysqlkernel_clean.sql

7. If you do want demodata

$ mysql.exe -u<user> -p<password> <name_of_database> < <httproot>exponential-xxxkernelsqlmysqldemokernel.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 your exponential-xxx directory
2. Unpack var.tgz into your exponential-xxx directory

Configure Exponential

Open exponential-xxxsettingssite.ini in notepad and set the correct settings in the [Database Settings] section. You need to set what database implementation you use, hostname of database server to connect to, user name, password, database name.

[Database Settings]

# Use either ezmysql or ezpostgresql

DatabaseImplementation=ezpostgresql

# Name of server to connect to

Server=localhost

# DB user name

User=<user>

# DB Password

Password=<password>

# database name you have created on 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.

Make sure these lines exists in your apache config file and are not commented out:

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

AddModule mod_rewrite.c

Below is a sample configuration for virtualhost setup. Include this in your apache config file and restart apache when you are done.

<VirtualHost <your_ip_adress>>

 <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 <your_ip_adress>

</VirtualHost>

Note: The rewrite rule is relative to the http root and uses '/' (slash) not '' (backslash)