- Please check the additional notes if running on MySQ 5.7.17 or newer
4. If you know in advance that it will be impossible for the web server to
-write or create files in your web directory, create an empty file in config/ called
+write or create files in your web directory, create an empty file called
.htconfig.php and make it writable by the web server.
5. Visit your website with a web browser and follow the instructions. Please
6. *If* the automated installation fails for any reason, check the following:
- - "config/.htconfig.php" exists
- If not, edit config/htconfig.php and change system settings. Rename
+ - ".htconfig.php" exists
+ If not, edit htconfig.php and change system settings. Rename
to .htconfig.php
- Database is populated.
If not, import the contents of "database.sql" with phpmyadmin
database or whatever you can think of. So once the installation of your
Friendica node is done, you should make yoursef a backup plan.
-The most important file is the `.htconfig.php` file in the `config/` directory.
+The most important file is the `.htconfig.php` file in the base directory.
As it stores all your data, you should also have a recent dump of your
Friendica database at hand, should you have to recover your node.
create an empty file with that name and give it world-write permission.
For Linux:
-% touch config/.htconfig.php
-% chmod 777 config/.htconfig.php
+% touch .htconfig.php
+% chmod 777 .htconfig.php
Retry the installation. As soon as the database has been created,
******* this is important *********
-% chmod 755 config/.htconfig.php
+% chmod 755 .htconfig.php
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- Some configurations with "suhosin" security are configured without