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Caution: This documentation is for eZ Publish legacy, from version 3.x to 5.x.

Installing eZ Publish on Windows

The requirements for doing a normal installation must be met! Read the "Requirements for doing a normal installation" section first. Proceed only if you have access to a Windows based system with Apache, PHP, MySQL or PostgreSQL already installed and running. (Do not use Apache 2.x for Windows and PHP 5.x.) As mentioned earlier, the database server may run on a different computer than the web server. This section will guide you through the following steps:

  • Setting up a database (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
  • Downloading eZ Publish
  • Unpacking eZ Publish
  • Initiating the setup wizard

Setting up a database

A database must be created before running the setup wizard. The following text explains how to set up a database using either MySQL or PostgreSQL.

MySQL

  1. Log in as the root user (or any other MySQL user that has the CREATE, CREATE USER and GRANT OPTION privileges):

    mysql --host=<mysql_host> --port=<port> -u <mysql_user> -p<mysql_password>
    

    Note that if MySQL is installed on the same server, the "--host" parameter can be omitted. If the "--port" parameter is omitted, the default port for MySQL traffic will be used (port 3306).

    The MySQL client should display a "mysql>" prompt.

  2. Create a new database:
    mysql> CREATE DATABASE <database> CHARACTER SET <charset>;
    
  3. Grant access permissions:
    mysql> GRANT ALL ON <database>.* TO <user>@<ezp_host> IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
    

    Note that if the specified user account does not exist, it will be created.

<mysql_host>

The hostname of the MySQL database server.

<port>

The port number that will be used to connect to the MySQL database server.

<mysql_user>

The MySQL user (if no user is set up, use "root").

<mysql_password>

The password that belongs to the <mysql_user>.

<database>

The name of the database, for example "my_new_database".

<charset>

The character encoding scheme to be used in the database, for example "utf8".

<user>

The username that will be used to access the database.

<ezp_host>

The hostname of the server on which eZ Publish will be running. (may be 'localhost' if MySQL is installed on the same server).

<password>

The password you wish to set in order to limit access to the database.

PostgreSQL

  1. Log in as the postgres user (or any other PostgreSQL user that has sufficient privileges to create roles and databases):

    psql -h <psql_host> -p <port> -U <psql_user> -W
    


    Note that if PostgreSQL is installed on the same server, the "-h" parameter can be omitted. If the "-p" parameter is omitted, the default port for PostgreSQL traffic will be used (in most cases, port 5432).

    The PostgreSQL client will ask you to specify the password that belongs to the <psql_user>. If the password is correct, the client should display a "<psql_user>=#" prompt.

  2. Create a new database:
    postgres=# CREATE DATABASE <database> ENCODING='<charset>';
    
  3. Create a new user:
    postgres=# CREATE USER <user> PASSWORD '<password>';
    
  4. Grant access permissions:
    postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE <database> TO <user>;
    
  5. Import the "pgcrypto" module into the new database:
    postgres=# \c <database>
    <database>=# \i '<path_to_pgcrypto>'
    

<psql_host>

The hostname of the PostgreSQL database server.

<port>

The port number that will be used to connect to the PostgreSQL database server.

<psql_user>

The PostgreSQL user (if no user is set up, use "postgresql").

<database>

The name of the database, for example "my_new_database".

<charset>

The character encoding scheme to be used in the database, for example "utf8".

<user>

The username that will be used to access the database.

<password>

The password you wish to set in order to limit access to the database.

<path_to_pgcrypto>

The path to the "pgcrypto.sql" file, for example "C:\\Program Files\\PostgreSQL\\8.2\\share\\contrib\\pgcrypto.sql".

Downloading eZ Publish

The latest stable version of the 3.10 branch can be downloaded from http://ez.no/download/ez_publish/ez_publish_3_stable_releases/3_10. Windows users should download the ".zip" archive.

Unpacking eZ Publish

Use your favorite utility to unpack the downloaded eZ Publish archive to a web-served directory (a directory that is reachable using a web browser). The extraction utility will unpack eZ Publish into a subdirectory called "ezpublish-3.10.x". Feel free to rename this directory to something more meaningful, for example "my_site".

Initiating the setup wizard

The setup wizard can be started using a web browser immediately after the previous steps (described in this section) are completed. It will be automatically run the first time someone tries to access/browse the index.php file located in the eZ Publish directory. Let's assume that we are using a server with the hostname "www.example.com" and that after unpacking, the eZ Publish directory was renamed to "my_site".

Document root example

If eZ Publish was unpacked into a directory called "my_site" under the document root, the setup wizard can be initiated by browsing the following URL: http://www.example.com/my_site/index.php.

Refer to "The setup wizard" section for a detailed description of the web based setup wizard.

Balazs Halasy (13/01/2005 11:49 am)

Svitlana Shatokhina (10/01/2008 9:55 am)

Balazs Halasy, Svitlana Shatokhina, Julia Shymova


Comments

  • call me dumb, but I failed the installation

    The eZ Publoish look very nice and I wanted to try it out, but I failed on install. Cause I already have a xampp installation I downloaded the zip version (Windows) and unzippen on my web server. Then I started the http://xyz/ezpublish/index.php and I have only errors, even the logo is not displayed /the link to the pic-file is wrong : http://xyz/design/standard/images/setup/eZ_setup_top.png <-- ist should be http://xyz/ezpublish/design/standard/images/setup/eZ_setup_top.png.

    Please help me cause I really want to test it out.
    • Re: call me dumb, but I failed the installation

      Hello Loschgi

      Please post your question in the forum http://ez.no/community/forum
      When doing this, give more information about the PHP, Apache and Database version you use. Also state the error messages (if there are to many, just the first two or three).

      Claudia
  • Could not install over my web

    Was trying to install over http://www.intelliwebtools.com but no cigar. I keep getting error messages although database is set up and all is in place. I realy wanted to tset eZ systems... :(
  • Windows + PHP 4 + MySQL 5

    After setting database user make sure to switch mysql to use old passwords or you won't be able to connect do database.

    mysql> SET PASSWORD FOR 'some_user'@'some_host' = OLD_PASSWORD('newpwd');

    Add "old-passwords" (w/o quotes of course) at the end of mysql.ini file and restart service.