Installation Instructions Summary

These instructions are indeed tailored for a server with root access, though shared hosting servers should not be a problem. If you are considering installing PBooks on a shared server, you might want to consider a virtual private server instead. You can read about them at Informed Hosting: [http://www.informedhosting.com/blog/virtual-private-servers.html Virtual Private Servers].

Basic Requirements

  • [http://www.nexista.org/blog/ Nexista]
  • Apache or Lighttpd
  • PHP with XSL support
  • PEAR MDB2 and pear/MDB2#MySQLi -or- MDB2/#sqlite
  • MySQL -or- SQLite (SQLite support is experimental)
  • PEAR Cache_Lite (optional)

Current Instructions

If the database installer script isn't working, try this: SQL Dump of PBooks Database with something like phpmyadmin.

The two initial php scripts which are called now have error reporting on, so hopefully that will help debug any installation problems.

Deprecated

For Future Reference

If you are a Perl, Python, TCL or Ruby fan, there maybe a port of PBooks to these platforms in the near future. If you're interested in this idea, please let us know in the [http://www.pbooks.org/forums/index.html forums]!