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We supply detailed installation instructions with the product, but briefly this is what you do to setup a Pedserve-powered web site.
- Make sure your web server has the right facilities to run Pedserve. It should be a Linux-hosted server, with Perl CGI and the MySQL database system. Almost certainly it will run the Apache web server. You should have access to at least one MySQL database, and you should have the login details for it. If you are buying a web hosting product specifically to host Pedserve, decide whether or not you will need a dedicated server or not; the latter is a more expensive option but is usually necessary if you want to use Pedserve Advanced or Developer Edition.
- Load the Perl scripts onto your web server. All the Pedserve scripts have names starting
pedserve- e.g. pedserve-hook-setup.pl and should be placed in whatever your 'cgi-bin' directory is called (this will vary, depending on your hosting package).
- Edit the script
pedserve-customize-sys.pl. There are things in this file that you must change - such as domain names, MySQL database login information, etc.
- Optionally, you may want to edit various other script files, depending on any customizations you want to make to the system. For further information as to why you may want to change these files, please browse the various links at the right of this page. You may prefer to keep the master copies of your customized script files on a local PC, and only FTP them to the server when ready; you will have to do this if you do not have shell access to the web server.
- Copy various files to the root of your web site - these are files such as the stylesheet and other files containing images etc. that are used internally by Pedserve.
- Create the database tables on your web server. We supply templates for the SQL code you need to run on the database server and which will create, and optionally index, your tables. You will probably want to edit these files first - e.g. to change the administrator password, to add user-defined fields and/or user defined record types, to remove any inbuilt fields that you have no need for, etc. You then execute these SQL scripts on your database to create the database tables - either through a MySQL web admin interface (e.g. phpMyAdmin), or, if you have shell access to your web server, you can FTP the SQL files to your server (using FTP etc), login, and use the
mysql client program to execute them.
- At this point, you should be able to login to your Pedserve system by loading a URL of the form
http://www.yoursite.com/cgi-bin/pedserve-login.pl into your web browser.
- Finally, you need to load the database with actual data. For further information click here.
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