Postnuke Tutorial and Installation How To

This tutorial describes how to use the Postnuke software with your NEXCESS.NET web hosting account. NEXCESS.NET specializes in hosting Postnuke websites and this tutorial is meant to help you quickly setup your Postnuke with our web hosting service.

If you don't currently own a Postnuke license you can get one by visiting the Postnuke site.

Postnuke is an offshoot of another content management system called PostNuke, you may want to check out our PostNuke tutorial.

1. Create a database for Postnuke to use
   
   Check out our SiteWorx MySQL tutorial for help creating databases in SiteWorx.
   Postnuke needs a database "back-end" to store its data in, so the first step is to set up this database. Create a database called 'nuke' with a user named 'nuke'. When you do this SiteWorx will prefix the database and user names with some text resembling your domain name. Remember what name you end up with, as you'll need this information later.
2. Download and extract Postnuke
   Download the latest version of Postnuke from the Postnuke NOC website and unzip the contents of the zip file. You should now have a Postnuke folder with 2 folders, 'html' and 'phoenix-sql' inside. Rename the 'html' folder to 'postnuke'. Upload the 'postnuke' folder to your web hosting account. If you need help with FTP, you can check out the FTP tutorials on our tutorials page.
3. Run the online install script
   The next step is to go through Postnuke's online configuration "wizard" - you can access this by going to http://your-site/postnuke/install.php where "your-site" is the domain of your website. Most of the screens are pretty self-explanatory. You will probably need to "chmod" a couple files so that Postnuke can access them properly. This can be done through most FTP programs - check out our FTP tutorials for more help. These files will need to be set to "666" via chmod.
4. Enter the database information
   You will then need to enter the database name and other info you set up in step #1. Usually all you will need to do is enter your database name, database username and the database user's password, and then proceed. The script will then check that it has access to the database, and then create the tables it will need in the database. You may get an error that says "no database made" - this is because you created the database manually in step #1, so there's no need to have Postnuke create the database automatically.
   
   Enter the info for the database you set up in step #1
5. Set up your admin account
   You can now create your admin account for managing your Postnuke site. Fill out the fields according to your preference. Be sure to choose a good password, because this account will have full control over your Postnuke site! After creating your admin account, the installation will be completed and you can login to your new Postnuke installation.
   
   Your new Postnuke installation is ready to go

For more information on how to use Postnuke once it's installed, check out the Postnuke Support page.

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