Idiots guide ?

netdef

Hi all,

I have tried following the instructions for installing I-doit.. as it assumes you have knowldege of Apache and PHP and SQL .. unfortunaltey i have knowledge of any of them…
I have tried to install as per instructions .. all starts fine but at some point i lose the plot and i cannot get to the Websetup

Does anyone have an idiots guide to installing this? a step by step of what package to download and the links, where to point each file and where to install

Even better would be a Virtula machine... I can then looka t the settings and try and understand it so I can build and manage my own...

This product looks really good and I woulld like to use it..

Regards,

Anthony Stewart

_Chekov_

@netdef:

Hi all,

I have tried following the instructions for installing I-doit.. as it assumes you have knowldege of Apache and PHP and SQL .. unfortunaltey i have knowledge of any of them…
I have tried to install as per instructions .. all starts fine but at some point i lose the plot and i cannot get to the Websetup

Does anyone have an idiots guide to installing this? a step by step of what package to download and the links, where to point each file and where to install

Even better would be a Virtula machine... I can then looka t the settings and try and understand it so I can build and manage my own...

This product looks really good and I woulld like to use it..

Regards,

Anthony Stewart

Hi Anthony,

all in all, it's always easier to be said than done. I can hear your problems regarding installation
steps and your call for "idiots"-guide, but there exist none. As we had this discussion on other
thread regarding documentation for i-doit, my complaints were targeted on insufficient amount
of i-doit documentation in general found on their wiki-site.

New 0.9.1 version of i-doit will be released soon, and there will be new documentation to be
added on wiki-site, according to i-doit developer team.

Some general rules of thumb to keep in mind while requesting help and what to mention about
your system environment:

Operating System & version (check against i-doit requirements)
Version of Apache (check against i-doit requirements)
Version of PHP (check against i-doit requirements)
Version of MySQL (check against i-doit requirements)

System requirements are listed under installation instructions under i-doit
wiki: http://doku.i-doit.org/wiki/Install.

As you mentioned that you are losing the plot at some point, what is that
point where you got stuck and cannot get any further? What kind of error
message is displayed and does it come while installing i-doit, or is it some
error while installing Apache, PHP or MySQL for your system?

It's rather difficult to figure out your particular problem if the problem is
not at all defined at first.

With kind regards,

Chekov

netdef

what i will try and do is piece together where I am at the moment, I will send over some info this aftternoon on what packages i have installed and where, and what files I have edited… hopefully I can get this up and running.. once up and running I can look into the setup to understand what is "what/wher and why"

Regards,

Anthony

netdef

can anyone point me in the right direction on how to get apache to point to i-doit or i-doit to point to apache….

all i want to be able to do is browse to http://my-ip/idoit

but i cannot get it to work

jknuth

windows or linux ?

sft008

Just installed and got it semi-working under Windows, I am a newbie and hope this helps.
1)Install EasyPHP-2.0b1 which has Apache, MySql, PHP all in one.

2)Unzipped i-doit_v09.zip to C:, rename directory from i-doit_v09 to idoit. (Or where/what ever you like, I like it @ root and short file name for sanity's sake.)

3)Create Alias under easpyphp, (make sure easy php is has started), applet e next to clock, right click on it, administration, under apache, click add, type in name idoit (or whatever), select patch c:\idoit (or whatever you have renamed the content directory to). and default settings, this is where you can allow/deny users. I didn't change anything here for now since I am doing testing, so I can only access on local machine.), OK.

4)Start browser of your choice (I used firefox), tyep in http://127.0.0.1/idoit/ or whatever you have alias the site to. This will bring you to the guided install menu. You should get an all OK. If not you have to go back and figure out which component didn't install properly.

Click Next, WWW directory = /idoit/ (or whatever your path is), Scroll down and select your choice of File, Temp and Object Image Directory. (I tried clicking on the file folder to browse but it filebrowser pops up with code so I just keyed in the path myself), so c:\idoit\file, c:\idoit\temp; c:\idoit\images (I created the file directory, temp and image already there)
Click Next, setup Database mysql. mySQL Client = C:\PROGRA~1\EASYPH~1.0B1\mysql\bin\mysql.exe. Use short file path, there is a bug if you put spaces in your path. Leave username/password for both i-doIT and root as is (I think I might have type in i-doIT/i-doIT and left root then password/blank). Default root password for easyphp mysql root account is root/blank. System Database Name: idoit (or whatever you like), Mandate Database Name: idoit (I kept it the same, not sure what the difference is). Mandant title I used company name.
Click next, select any theme (only 2) and leave the rest unless you really need to setup proxy and web/soap for integration with other apps?? Not sure.
Click Next and it should install.

Hope this helps… will try to drop DB and install again to confirm.