Install KBPublisher

The easiest way to install KBPublisher is to use the installation wizard.
The install script is extremely simple. The only actions required on your part is to click the next button when each step is completed and you will be prompted for each actions that required from your side to proceed with installation.

Overview

1. Unpack the distribution package
   
   
2. Place it somewhere in your web-server's document root, preferably  the parent directory of your root web directory. Usually the root directory will be public_html or httpdocs.
   
   
3. You can rename "kb" folder as you wish (it will be a part of your URL for knowledge base)
   For example if you rename it to "kbbase" and place it in document root directory (document root/kbbase)
   the URL for knowledge base will be www.youdomain.com/kbbase/
   
   
4. Type http://<your_domain>/<kb_installation_path>/setup/index.php into your browser address line, where <your_domain> is your domain name, and <kb_installation_path> is either 'kb', if you retained the default, or whatever folder you renamed it to.  For example, if you used the domain name in step 3, this would be www.yourdomain.com./kbbase/setup/index.php.
   
   The installation wizard comes up.
   
   
5. Follow the installation wizard instructions.
   

Notes

• KBPublisher requires a MySQL database to store the information. Before you can proceed with the installation, you should have a database to be used by KBPublisher. You may want to create a new MySQL database and give a user access to it.
  
  Once you are at the MySQL console, you can run the following commands:
  
  mysql> CREATE DATABASE [database name]
  mysql> GRANT ALL ON [database name] TO [username]@[host] IDENTIFIED BY '[password]'
  
  
• Installation wizard  will try to create some directories for you but in most cases you have to create it manually.
  We recommend this directory structure
  
  
  
  kb_file - for uploads via "Files" module
  kb_cache - for cache files
  kb_upload - for uploads via HTML editor
  
  kb_file, kb_cache, kb_uploads directories have to be writeable by PHP.
  On a Windows system this generally is not a problem, but on Linux systems you will need to CHMOD these directories to 0777.
  
  
• We do recommend you place the kb_upload directory in the parent directory of your root web directory.
  If you decide to move your kb to new location it will help you to keep paths correct for uploaded images.