Installing PHP-Nuke on Debian

1. Use dselect and install imp (this is a webmail product which fixes a lot of php config files) . When asked for dependencies when installing imp, remove all postgresql files and select the available mysql and php3 files that appear instead.

2. (optional) apt-get install sendmail - if you want mail to work.

3. In /etc/apache/mime.types, change the line ;


application/x-httpd-php phtml pht php


to


application/x-httpd-php3 phtml pht php

4. mysqladmin -u root password newmysqlrootpassword - Put this password in /etc/mysql/my.cnf

5. mysqladmin create nuke

6. mysql nuke LESSTHANSIGN /var/www/sql/nuke.sql [or /var/www/html/sql/nuke.sql for version 5 beta]


7. chmod 777 /var/www/html (the insecurity of this scares me, but it works)

8. In /var/www/html/config.php, change;

$dbpass = "";


to


$dbpass = "newmysqlrootpassword"

9. (optional) Note that creating a specific mysql user for the db is more secure and absolutely necessary when giving others access to PHP-Nuke config files - using mysql_setpermission to set up a db specific user is more secure. You will need to change /var/www/html/config.php in this case.

10. Go to http://localhost/html/ for the frontpage
or http://localhost/html/admin.php for admin logging in as;

user: God

pass: Password. "