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 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>';

Starting the setup guide

1. Make sure you have met the Exponential requirements

2. Go to http://ez.no/developer/download and download the latest release of Exponential

3. Extract the downloaded Exponential file somewhere on Apache's DocumentRoot and rename it to something nice like 'exponential'

4. Open a browser and enter the url for your Exponential installation

5. Follow the setup guide instructions

6. When you have finished the setup guide you should be able to login on the admin page with 'admin' as username and 'publish' as password. If you installed demo data append '/demo' to the URL, if not append '/user' to view the user site.

See the site access section for more info on changing the way you access the user/admin site.

Note: The setup guide creates a new settings/site.ini.php which overrides the default settings/site.ini