Chapter 2. Installing PHP-Nuke

In this chapter we will cover how to install PHP-Nuke on a local machine running an Apache/MySQL/PHP (AMP) environment. We will not cover the installation of AMP here; you can find a walkthrough of installing the XAMPP package in Appendix A. This package includes PHP, MySQL, Apache, and much more, and is a quick way to get yourself a working AMP development environment.

The steps to install and configure PHP-Nuke are simple:

1. Download and extract the PHP-Nuke files.
2. Download and apply ChatServ's patches.
3. Create the database for PHP-Nuke.
4. Create a database user, and fill the database with data.
5. Make some simple changes to the PHP-Nuke configuration file.
6. Copy the PHP-Nuke files to the document root of the web server.
7. Test it out!

Let's get started.