What will you need?
YACS has been designed to support a wide variety of hosts. Learn about minimum requirements before engaging the setup.
[title]Building blocks[/title]
As any web system relying on the AMP architecture, YACS will require:
- a web server, preferably ran by Apache
- a PHP run-time to build
- a MySQL server and database
- some free space at the server hard drive to copy all YACS files, and to store configuration files, attachments and images.
YACS itself is publicly available as a downloable archive, and you will have to push all files individually to the server file system.
[title]Installation check-list[/title]
Things you should have in hand to finalize the installation:
[*] the YACS archive
[*] FTP or WinSCP account information (host, name and password) required to push files to the server
[*] MySQL account information (host, user name, password, and database name)
[*] ensure that the web server (Apache or equivalent) is allowed to handle files in the YACS space -everywhere
[*] SMTP/POP3 account information (hosts, user name, and password) to enable alert messages (optional)
[*] Most run-time requirements have been duly documented in the file readme.txt provided in the YACS archive. If you are new to Unix file system and chmod
, please consider the excellent tutorial at http://catcode.com/teachmod/index.html