In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Known on your Windows 11 machine.
Before beginning with the installation process, make sure you have the following:
First, you need to visit https://withknown.com/download/ and download the latest version of Known to your Windows 11 machine.
You can either download it directly from the website or you can use Git to clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/idno/Known.git
Known uses Composer to manage its dependencies, so you need to install Composer on your machine. You can download Composer from https://getcomposer.org/download/.
Once downloaded, follow the installation steps to install Composer.
To install all of the dependencies required by Known, navigate to the directory where you downloaded Known and run the following command:
composer install
This will install all of the dependencies required by Known into a vendor directory.
To install Known, you need to have a MySQL or MariaDB database to store your data. To create a new database, you can use any MySQL/MariaDB client such as phpMyAdmin or MySQL Workbench.
Create a new database with a name of your choice and make sure to note down the database name, username, and password for future use.
Once you have downloaded and installed all dependencies, navigate to the directory where you downloaded Known and create a new file called .htaccess.
In the .htaccess file, add the following code:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
Next, rename the file config.ini.sample to config.ini and open it in a text editor.
Update the following values in the config.ini file:
db_host: Set this to the hostname or IP address of your MySQL/MariaDB database server.db_name: Set this to the name of the database you created in Step 4.db_user: Set this to the username you created for the database in Step 4.db_pass: Set this to the password you created for the database in Step 4.base_url: Set this to the URL where you will access Known.session_secret: Set this to a random string to secure your session.Next, you need to configure your web server (Apache or NGINX) to serve your Known installation.
For Apache, create a new virtual host configuration file and add the following configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/path/to/known/directory"
ServerName yourdomain.com
<Directory "/path/to/known/directory">
Options FollowSymlinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Replace /path/to/known/directory with the path to the directory where you installed Known and yourdomain.com with your domain name or IP address.
For NGINX, create a new server block and add the following configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name yourdomain.com;
root /path/to/known/directory;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize = 50M \n post_max_size=50M";
}
}
Replace /path/to/known/directory with the path to the directory where you installed Known and yourdomain.com with your domain name or IP address.
Once you have completed all the above steps, navigate to your input the URL you configured in base_url.
This will start the Known installation process. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Known on your Windows 11 machine.
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