1Installation

In normal cases, installing cmsWorks is as simple as copying the cmsWorks-files to a server. Anyway, you need at least a "server" (may be a client machine) and a database. This page is to give more information about it.

Prerequisites: Operating system and database

A brief introduction which software is needed on the server / development system to install cmsWorks.

Installing the cmsWorks software bundle

The installation of cmsWorks on a server / development system.

Preparing and connecting to MySQL

Describes the preparation for the MySQL database server by defining the right (UTF-8) encoding, creating the database and user, importing an empty standard database and connecting cmsWorks to MySQL.

Starting / stopping cmsWorks

Showing how to start and stop the cmsWorks server software.

File system structure of cmsWorks

A brief introduction to the file system structure cmsWorks resides in.