Installation Overview
The Exponent CMS installation process is mostly automated and requires four steps. There are also three installation or upgrade scenarios.
The basic steps to installing the application are:
- Downloading the files
- Installing the files on the web server (Git, FTP, SSH, or CPanel)
- Creating a database
- Running the installation process
The recommended installation scenarios are:
- New (fresh) installation into a clean web server folder
- The new installation process should be started in an empty/clean folder
- Upgrade over top of an existing (running) Exponent CMS 2.0 installation
- The upgrade takes place in the existing folder
- Migrate from an existing (running) Exponent 0.9x installation
- The migration takes place in the old folder and eventually uses the old database
- FIRST BACKUP ALL THE FILES IN YOUR EXISTING FOLDER
- Next, delete all the files EXCEPT the 'files' folder
- Then you can follow the installation steps as if performing a new installation
- Once your new 2.0 site is up and running,you can run the migration process to transfer and convert your old 0.9x site content into a 2.0 site.
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