PostNuke Installation

Several months ago I heard that a friend of mine use a Content Management Support (CMS) to build website. I felt curious but it was only in my mind because I didn't have much time to explore.

3 days ago i installed what is so called PostNuke. It is a CMS based on Php. I have WampServer in my computer. WampServer consist of Apache, Php and MySQL. They are required to use PostNuke.

1. The first thing to do is downloading Postnuke from Download Page of PostNuke Website. I choose Latest Stable Release and I download PostNuke-0.764.tar.gz. You can also download PostNuke-0.764.zip. The link is http://noc.postnuke.com/frs/?group_id=5&release_id=700

2. Extract PostNuke tar.gz or zip file to document root of Apache. I used WinRAR.

3. Install PostNuke by accessing install.php in PostNuke directory.In installation process there will be setting to access MySQL database, its host (usually localhost), username, password and
database name. If you have other web server such as IIS, oftenly you change port setting of Apache. For example if you set to 8080, your host is localhost:8080. Follow all instruction given. After it finish, PostNuke will be ready to use. In my computer PostNuke is accessed through
http://localhost:8080/postnuke/index.php

There are many system modules inside, consist of Administration module, Admin Messages, Groups, Mailer etc. There are also Content modules to add comments, downloadable files, Polls, News etc. Now it's time to explore!