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phpVMS Installation
Requirements
PHP 5+ (5.2+ recommended).
MySQL 4.1+ with InnoDB.
Recommended extras:
GD Image Library
allow_url_fopen set to ON or cURL
phpVMS is designed to run with PHP with register_globals set to 'off'
phpVMS may not run properly with safe mode on
phpVMS uses some of the “advanced” features of MySQL, mainly foreign keys. This will ensure the integrity of your data. These are enabled by most DB software, and it's implemented by MySQL in InnoDB tables. Chances are, your host has InnoDB enabled (the default table types are MyISAM). If you don't, usually a quick email to them and they will enable it for you.
Installation
Installation Preliminaries
Before you start the installation, a few things must be done:
Write permissions:
core/pages
core/local.config.php
lib/rss/
lib/signatures
lib/avatars
Your database user must have SELECT/UPDATE/DELETE/CREATE/APPEND permissions