What will I learn to do?
It will look like this when you’re done:
Now that you have completed the lesson Prepare to install SPIP, you are ready to make the big jump:
having your SPIP site online!
After a quick overview of the checklist, you’ll learn in this lesson :
How to setup your ftp client to connect to your remote site
How to install SPIP using the spip_loader
How to install SPIP using the archive
Checklist: what do I need before starting?
Unless you already have experience on deploying a php application online, reading the lesson Prepare to install SPIP is not optional at all. We are going in the coming lesson to reuse important information from it.
Domain and Web Host
You must have a domain and a host solution properly configured.
In our example the domain name is perspip.net.
FTP information
You must have the ftp information of this host solution:
ftp host
ftp login
ftp password
In our example the ftp host is perspip.net, the ftp login is perpspiplog and the ftp password is perspippwd.
MySQL information
You must have the Mysql information of this host solution:
Mysql host
Mysql login
Mysql password
In our example the Mysql host is mysql.perspip.net, the Mysql login is perspiplog and the Mysql password is perspippwd.
Usually provider gives the same login and password for both ftp and Mysql access.
On several providers platform, host for mysql is localhost, which means that the Mysql server is running on the very machine that hosts the webserver.
FTP client
You must have the filezilla FTP client software to connect to your remote site using ftp.
Get the files from the www.spip.net website
There are two main ways to install SPIP online:
using the spip_loader
using the archive
The spip.net download page:
No matter which way you chose, you have to start by downloading files from the spip.net download page:
If you decide to install SPIP using the spip_loader (recommended), you have to download the spip_loader.php :
www.spip.net/spip-dev/INSTALL/spip_loader.php
If you decide to install SPIP using the archive, you have to download the full zip archive :
www.spip.net/spip-dev/DISTRIB/spip.zip
