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Phreebooks Software Installation

Prerequisites

mysql

mysql > 4 Open the mysql shell and:

• Create a table for your company name as below where company = your database name. Capitalization counts!

CREATE DATABASE company;

• Create a user

CREATE USER 'phreebooks_user'@'localhost';

• Set passwrod for the user.

set password for 'phreebooks_user'@'localhost' = password('user-password')

• It is good practice here is to limit the privileges to the database company to protect other databases.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON company.* TO 'phreebooks_db_user'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

php

PHP Version: 5.0 and higher

On Debian you will want to add support for mysql, gd, and curl

Wajig install php-curl php-gd php5-mysql

apache

Just point to the Phreebooks directory

Continue with Phreebooks Company setup

Installation

Point your browser to the top directory and follow instructions.

Upgrading R1.2.1 to R1.3

Expand the tarball into a new directory.

From the old installation directory to the new one - Copy

includes/configure.php

my_files/

Point apache at the new Phreebooks directory.

Make sure the privileges are set to read-only for configure.php. The database is upgraded automatically.