# INSTALL

    PHPOpenChat v3.0 dev - INSTALL
    These are installation instructions for the impatient.

    $Id: INSTALL,v 1.5 2002/12/17 17:33:26 letreo Exp $

    Overview

    0. Preface
    1. Unpack the archive (already done if you can read this)
    2. Check requirements and prerequisites
    3. Copy files to destination host and directory
    4. Create database and database user with access rights
    5. Change configuration settings in config.inc
    6. Run 'php -q test.php'. If successful proceed, if not check all of above
    7. Change configuration settings of Apache webserver in httpd.conf
    8. Open startpage with your browser
    9. Register your nick name
    10. Login with your nick name
    11. Send an email with the URL of your chat system to phpopenchat@sourceforge.net, thank you very much.

    0. Preface

    PHPOpenChat (POC) is a web-based chat system written in PHP 4 as Open Source Software (OSS). Your advantage is that you may use it without charge even for commercial purposes. Your disadvantage is that you have no [anspruch] for support or fulfillement of any requirements although some volunteers might give you support and some functionality may be provided.
    To operate the chat system you won't need any commercial software packages, although it might run with one of these too. Instead it is sufficient to have Linux, Apache, PHP 4 and MySQL (LAMP) and of course a server computer attached to the internet (or any kind of TCP/IP network).

    1. Unpack the archive

    PHPOpenChat comes as a TAR-Archive oder ZIP-Archive. It will unpack itself into a subdirectory "phpopenchat". Please unpack it in your DOCROOT directory.
    We assume you have a HOME directory and a document root directory DOCROOT. DOCROOT is the directory where all files of your web server are stored. In the case of an Apache web server DOCROOT is often named 'htdocs'. It may but doesn't have to be under your HOME directory.
    Example:

    Document Root is under
    /home/you/public_html
    or
    /var/www/html

    PHPOpenChat is should be unpacked to
    /home/you/public_html/phpopenchat
    or
    /var/www/html/phpopenchat

    2. Check requirements and prerequisites
    Do you have:
    - PHP >= 4.2.2 with MySQL-, or other DB-support
    - MySQL (or other DB)
    installed?

    3. Copy files to destination host and directory
    Hopefully done.

    4. Create database and database user with access rights
    Now you have to setup your database.
    - create a database (In other cases than mysql, it may be called 'tablespace')
    - create a database user with access rights to this database
    - import PHPOpenChat's database-schema db.schema

    5. Change configuration settings in config.inc
    For a quickstart it's enoght to change the following settings:
    - the hostname, where the database runs
      define('DATABASE_HOST','localhost');
    - the database user with proper access rights
      define('DATABASE_USER','');
    - the password of this database user
      define('DATABASE_PASSWORD','');
    - the name of your created database which will contain your sql-tables (In other cases than mysql, it may be called 'tablespace')
      define('DATABASE_TABLESPACE','');

    Now you are able to try http://your.host.tld/phpopenchat/
    have fun!

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