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First thing you should do before installing is to configure the forum by creating a config/config.php file. You may want to copy the contents of config/default_config.php into the file first to make things easier. At a minimum you should set the following values:

• networkName
• siteName
• path
• domain
• dbType
• dbServer
• dbName
• dbTestName (not required unless you are running tests on this instance)
• dbUser
• dbPassword

Once you have set those variables, and you have created a new empty database (dbName), then you are ready to start installing the forum.

To install the forum, you should first cd into maintenance/install, then run install.php.

$ cd maintenance/install
$ php install.php

This will initialize the database with all the necessary tables, and will ask you several questions about the installation, like setting up the Admin user, but will also ask you whether or not to import data from several csv files if they exist. These files are in the following format:

people.csv

lastName, firstName, role, website, university, department, title, email

themes.csv

acronym, name, description, phase

projects.csv

acronym, theme, title, status, type, description, problem, solution, projectLeader, projectCoLeader, phase, bigBet

project_members.csv

userName, projectName

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