Installation Instructions for tent
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Thanks for downloading tent! 

This was designed to be a staff intranet and has expanded to become a website capable of ecommerce, club organizing, etc ...
The calendars are modular in the sense that you can have as many as you like and integrate them as parts of each other as needed.

First, a list of needed software:

PHP
http://www.php.net

Apache
http://www.apache.org

mySQL (or any other PHP supported SQL database, I use mySQL)
http://www.mysql.com


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PREPARE THE DATABASE
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Okay, here's the skinny. 
Basically, once you've un-tar-gzipped the internal directory, 
move it to somewhere on your webserver's document tree and chown it to your webserver's user recursively.

Next, you'll need to make a database.

From a command line type:
mysqladmin create tent

FEED THE DATABASE
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cd into the db directory. get root (or a similarly powerful mysql user)
type:
cat *.sql modules/Images.sql modules/Calendars.sql | mysql tent

Now add an admin user for default login (you can delete them later):
mysql tent < admin.sql


GRANT PERMISSIONS
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If this is your first install, you should run the following command. Note that it inserts a user tent into your mysql.mysql table. You can change these things as you see fit. Be aware that it is a security risk to use the default configuration without changing the password - this is all online!  
type:
mysql < FirstInstall.sql


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LOGIN and create site_vars.php
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When you login for the first time the username and password are both "admin".

Now go give in a whirl and login as admin.

Once you've logged in use the Configuration link. You could pretty much just submit that page to get started. It will copy site_vars-dist.php to site_vars.php and test that the webserver user can indeed write to the tent directory.

I'm going to be working on this documentation more and suggestions are appreciated.

Please read MODULES

That's all for now, have fun with it.
Lindsey
lsimon@commoner.com