Summary

In this chapter, we have walked through the typical steps to install PHP-Nuke on a local machine running an AMP environment.

After obtaining and installing the PHP-Nuke application from the PHP-Nuke main site, phpnuke.org, we also installed ChatServ's patches so as to minimize possible security issues.

The next thing we did was to create the database for PHP-Nuke and populate it using phpMyAdmin—a web-based tool for working with MySQL databases. As you will see in later chapters, almost everything about your site is stored in this database.

Finally, we moved the folder containing PHP-Nuke's code into the document root of our web server. We also looked at some troubleshooting issues to check that everything is working OK. With everything working fine, we can start exploring PHP-Nuke!