installing the ravenuke manually?

qaona · Hangin' Around Joined: Nov 01, 2006 Posts: 34

Does he/she/you have as installing the ravenuke manually?
Example: to create database manually. without using INSTALLATION, I find very complicated, many steps, and data that I don't know where to obtain.

jakec · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:57 am

Surely it is easier to install using the Installer? Don't forget to read the HowToInstall files included in the package.

It is certainly possible to install manually, you would need to look the SQL in the files, which are located in the INSTALLATION directory. Then import the SQL using phpMyAdmin.

.....but seriously the Installer is definitely the easiest way of doing it, if it isn't then we must be doing something wrong. Laughing

fkelly · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:16 pm

I would put this even more strongly than Jakec, though he is substantially correct. The installer does many things for you "behind the scenes" and it would be extremely difficult, even for an expert, to install this manually. One example ... the SQL files Jake mentioned contain the $prefix variable. The installation program reads your config.php and substitutes in the value of $prefix to the SQL. If you try to import the raw files to PHPmyadmin it is not going to know what to do with $prefix.

Use the installer ... after reading the HowToInstall manual a couple of times.

jakec · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:41 pm

That is a very good point fkelly, thanks for pointing that out, it could of created some interesting problems. Laughing