Windows installation with a previously installed web server

In case you already have Apache web server installed, proceed following instructions. Please make sure you have PHP, MySQL and Zend Optimizer installed according to system requirements before you continue.

1. Execute the self-extracting installation file:

SaurusCMS-4.4.0.exe

2. When choosing components to install, choose "Only Saurus CMS" package. Installation will create a new website folder.

3. Open your browser and go to the URL where the website you unpacked is, e.g:

http://www.yoursite.com/install.php

4. Follow the instructions on the page. The database will be installed and the config.php will be adjusted with the required database server variables.

5. Be sure that you delete file "install.php" and install/ folder from your website root directory.

6. Be sure that following upload directories have write permissions for the web server:

  • public/ - files used for content management
  • shared/ - files used for content management
  • classes/smarty/cache/ - Saurus API templates cache
  • classes/smarty/templates/ - Saurus API templates
  • classes/smarty/templates_c/ - Saurus API compiled templates code


Installation

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