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The Official PostNuke Installation & Getting Started Guide

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Drew Vogel

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The Official PostNuke Installation and Getting Started Guide was written by Drew Vogel.

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Dedication

This Guide is dedicated to Wendy, the keeper of my heart and the delight of my eyes.

Table of Contents
1. Important Note Regarding This Version Of The Guide
2. Credits
3. Most Current Versions
4. Who Should Use This Guide
5. An Overview of Content Management Systems (CMS)
6. An Overview of PostNuke
7. Benefits of PostNuke
8. System Requirements
Hardware Requirements
Software Requirements
Software Recommendations
Tools You Can Use
9. Assumptions & Conventions
10. New Installation
Step-by-step: First-time installation of PostNuke
11. Upgrade Installation
Step-by-step: Upgrading PostNuke
12. Testing The Installation/Upgrade
13. A Lesson in PostNuke Terminology
14. Basic Website Configuration
Basic Site Setup
Footer Messages
Backend Configuration
Security Options
Run On An Intranet
HTML Options
15. Understanding Modules
16. Advanced Website Configuration & Use
Add Story
Admin Messages
AutoLinks
Banners
Banners -> Banner Reporting
Banners -> Banners Configuration
Blocks
Comments
Downloads
Downloads -> Download Configuration
Ephemerids
FAQ
Groups
HTTP Referers
HTTP Referers -> HTTP Referers Configuration
Languages
Languages -> Languages Configuration
Mail Users
Quotes
Reviews
Sections
Submit News
Surveys
Topics
Topics -> Topics Configuration
Top List
User Administration
User Administration -> User Configuration
User Administration -> Dynamic User Data
Web Links
Web Links -> Web Links Configuration
17. Groups & Permissions
Overview of the Permissions System
Default PostNuke Permissions Explained
Advanced Group Permissions
User Permissions
Setting up and configuring Groups
Permission Levels
An example of Group Permissions
An example of User Permissions
Permissions FAQ
Permissions for Newbies
Permission Samples
18. Conclusion
19. APPENDIX A: Create the MySQL database that PostNuke will use
20. APPENDIX B: Create the MySQL username and password that PostNuke will use
21. APPENDIX C: Configure the webserver
22. APPENDIX D: Configure PHP
23. APPENDIX E: Enable GZIP compression in php.ini
24. APPENDIX F: Getting development versions of PostNuke using the CVS server at developer.hostnuke.com