Chyrp Lite is an open-source microblogging engine written in PHP that allows users to create and manage their own blogs. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the installation process to get Chyrp Lite up and running on your Windows 10 machine.
Before installing Chyrp Lite, you will need to have the following installed:
If you do not have these installed, refer to their respective documentation to install them.
To download Chyrp Lite, go to https://chyrplite.net/download and click on the "Download Chyrp Lite" button. Save the downloaded file to your local machine, ideally in your Apache document root directory.
Once the download is complete, navigate to the directory where you saved the downloaded Chyrp Lite package, right-click on it, and select "Extract All". Choose a directory where you want to extract the files to.
Open your MySQL command prompt and execute the following command to create a new database for Chyrp Lite:
CREATE DATABASE chyrp_litedb;
Once the database is created, create a user and grant privileges to the user to access the database. Replace username and password with your desired username and password.
CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON chyrp_litedb.* TO 'username'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Navigate to the directory where you extracted the Chyrp Lite files and locate the config.yaml.example file. Rename it to config.yaml.
Open config.yaml in a text editor and edit the following lines to match your MySQL database credentials:
database:
engine: mysql
server: localhost
port: 3306
username: yourusername
password: yourpassword
database: chyrp_litedb
You can also make any other desired changes to the configuration file at this time.
Open your Apache httpd.conf file and add the following lines at the end of the file:
Alias /chyrp_lite "C:/path/to/your/chyrp_lite"
<Directory "C:/path/to/your/chyrp_lite">
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Note that you should replace C:/path/to/your/chyrp_lite with the actual path to the directory where you extracted the Chyrp Lite files.
Restart Apache to apply the changes.
Open your web browser and go to http://localhost/chyrp_lite/install. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
Once installation is complete, you can access your Chyrp Lite dashboard by going to http://localhost/chyrp_lite/admin.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Chyrp Lite on your Windows 10 machine!
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