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Lyceum Installation

Lyceum is an extension of the popular Wordpress blogging software. While Wordpress is a single user blogging software, Lyceum is a multiple users blogging software. Under early development, read about it here

I tried installing it on my Windows XP system, running Apache 2.0.59, PHP 4.4.3 & MySQL 3.23.42 and faced quite some problems, so thought to blog about it.

Installation Steps

Download, Install and configure Apache, MySQL and PHP on your Windows Machine. Download and Installation should not be a problem. For configuration, you may follow these links:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/php4install.shtml

http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=6452

After you’ve configured all the above 3 components, download Lyceum source from here

Extract the source and place it under your DocumentRoot (). You should have the following directory structure.

 /lyceum
+  /dev
|  /doc
|  /src
|    + /bin
|    | /config
|    | /installation
|    | /lib
|    + /lyceum
+   /tests

Before starting the installation verify the Apache configuration first. You must have mod_rewrite module enabled in your Web Server Configuration. Also in the configuration part of your Apache configuration file, you must set the AllowOverride directive to “All”; that is, “AllowOverride All”

Now, create a database in your MySQL server for lyceum as lyceum does not create the database itself.
SQL : mysql>CREATE DATABASE lyceum;

In case you are using MySQL <>/lyceum/src/installation/) accordingly to remove the ENGINE directives from SQL statements.

Modify wp-config-sample.php (/lyceum/src/config/) to create wp-config.php with modifications to following fields:

DB_NAME : Name of the Database you’ve created in MySQL.
DB_USER : Database User Name
DB_PASSWORD : Password for the specified Database User Name.
DB_HOST : Server Name / Addresss (’localhost’ in case of local installation)
WEBROOT : Location of /lyceum/src/lyceum on the server (Directory where portal.php is placed. Note: ‘no trailing slash after the path)
MAINDOMAIN : 127.0.0.1 ( For local installation. Note: ‘localhost’ will not work)

Start the installation from your web browser using the URL : <server_address>/<webroot>/wp-admin/install.php

It should work fine. Comment if you face any issues.

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