Installation

The examples in this document assumes you're using Linux and Apache. The Apaches document root is in /var/www and VideoDB is to be installed in /var/www/videodb. But it shouldn't be difficult for you to follow the steps with any other environment.

Requirements

VideoDB works with the typical LAMP and WAMP environments. Here are the requirements in detail:

• A Webserver wich supports PHP (Apache recommended)
• A recent version of PHP 4, at least 4.1.0 is required
• A MySQL Database
• A WebBrowser (something new is probably better)

First time installation

Unzip the tarball into a directory below your webserver document root and make the cache directories writable.

Example:

  $> cd /var/www
  $> tar -xzvf ~/videodb-*.tgz
  $> chmod 777 videodb/cache/*
  

Then create a new database using the install.sql file in the install directory

Example:

  $> mysqladmin -p create videodb
  $> mysql -p videodb < /var/www/videodb/install/install.sql
  

Now edit the config.inc.php file to match your database settings.

Thats it. Now point your webbrowser to your new videodb and add some movies

Update from a previous version

For updating from a previous version just delete all files but the cache directory and keep your database. Then unzip the new tarball as described above. Then apply the upgrade.sql to your database using the the -f parameter to ignore errors.

Example:

  $> mysql -p -f videodb < /var/www/videodb/install/upgrade.sql