New Installation

Folder/File Setup

• First download the latest Geeklog version
• Download the tarball into any directory.
• move the file to your webroot

tar -zxvf geeklog*.tar.gz

• Change into the Geeklog directory

cd geeklog-1.*

• Copy all files to your primary directory with

cp -Rf * /home/username/public_html

• Change the access rights in the directories:

chown -R webuser:webuser *
chmod -R 755 logs
chmod -R 755 backups
chmod -R 755 data
chmod -R 755 public_html/backend
chmod -R 755 public_html/images/articles
chmod -R 755 pulic_html/images/topics
chmod -R 755 public_html/images/userphotos/

Database

• Create your MySQL database, MySQL account, grant privileges to MySQL account.
• As root create the MySQL database and access rights:

$ mysql -u root
mysql> create database geeklog_db;
mysql>grant all on geeklog.* to geeklog@localhost identified by 'yourgeeklogpassword';
mysql>quit

Install

• run www.yourdomain.foo/admin/install/index.php
• follow the instructions
• login to your page using default Admin/password
• change password
• remove directory public_html/admin/install