DomainMOD is an open-source domain name management software that allows you to manage all your domain names in one place. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing DomainMOD on Windows 10.
Visit https://domainmod.org/download.html and download DomainMOD. Extract the downloaded ZIP file to a suitable location in your computer.
Open the MySQL command line interface and run the following command to create a new database for DomainMOD:
CREATE DATABASE domainmod;
Create a new MySQL user with full permissions to the DomainMOD database using the following command:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON domainmod.* TO 'yourusername'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
Replace 'yourusername' and 'yourpassword' with your preferred username and password for the MySQL user.
Open the Apache configuration file at C:\xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf and add the following code to the end of the file to configure a virtual host for DomainMOD:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:/path/to/domainmod/folder"
ServerName domainmod.local
</VirtualHost>
Replace "C:/path/to/domainmod/folder" with the absolute path to the DomainMOD directory on your computer.
Open a command prompt and navigate to the extracted DomainMOD directory. Run the following command to install the dependencies using Composer:
composer install
Copy the file config/config.sample.inc.php and rename the copy to config.inc.php. Open the config.inc.php file and update the following configuration settings:
$DB_hostname = "localhost"; // replace localhost with your MySQL server hostname
$DB_database = "domainmod"; // replace domainmod with the name of the database you created in Step 2
$DB_username = "yourusername"; // replace yourusername with the MySQL user you created in Step 2
$DB_password = "yourpassword"; // replace yourpassword with the password you set for the MySQL user in Step 2
Open a web browser and navigate to the URL http://domainmod.local (replace "domainmod.local" with the ServerName you specified in Step 3). You should see the DomainMOD login page. Enter the default username and password which is:
Username: admin
Password: admin
You can now begin using DomainMOD to manage your domain names.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed DomainMOD on Windows 10.
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