In this document we describe the process of installing FormBoss through a pure SSH command line setting. In some ways this method may be easier, though some steps are made more complicated, as for example, we need to grab the formboss zip file from an existing newwork location.

With that said, on with the instructions. Please note that any lines starting with a // are comments.

// Your SSH login will usually be an ip or a host name such as:

# ssh example.com -l your_user_name

// In The Open SSH Terminal Now...

mysql

// please note we are now in mysql, which means the command promot starts with >

>create database formboss

>CREATE USER 'formboss'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'a_very_secure_password'
>GRANT ALL ON formboss.* TO 'formboss'@'localhost';
>exit

// get formboss files. This assumes a very basic server setup where web files are in /var/www/html

# cd /var/www/html

# wget http://some-location.com/where+your+formboss+zip+is

# unzip formboss.zip

// file permissions - we need to find a user to share apache priviledges with. We'll assume that user is 'chris'

# cat /etc/passwd | cut -d":" -f1

# chown -R chris formboss2/
# chgrp -R apache formboss2/

# chmod 775 formboss2/app/config.php
# chmod 775 formboss2/app/movefiles/config.php

# chmod 775 -R formboss2/output/

// perform graphical install

# mv formboss2/install.php formboss2/install.php.old

Extra Links

This is just one way to perform the install, though it should be a good basis to start from.

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/grant.html