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Install Bevey

Here, you will find graphical step-by-step instructions on how you can get up and running with your own community site. Click any image to get a full view.

  1. Download the most recent version of Bevey from the official download page.

  2. Once downloaded, unzip the archive to a convenient location (such as your desktop).

    Unzipped Bevey Files

  3. Once unzipped, navigate into the "Bevey" directory. Here, you will find the "setup.php" file. Open this file and enter your site administrator's information for the values of $username, $password and $email. This should be the main account you will be using - but it will have administrator rights. As such, you should make a point to choose a more complex password than that shown.

    You may also choose to change (or remove) the title you would like for the main contact page.

    You may also choose to change (or remove) the protocols you would like to be made available to users. These are shown on the user's "About" pages - as their various forms of contact.

    It's suggested that you enable deep link prevention. Do this by entering your domain name without any prefixes (such as http:// or www.) and without any domain suffixes (such as .com or .org).

    Once you have edited this file, save and close it.

    Edit Setup

  4. Navigate into the "main" directory. Here, you'll find the "settings.php" file. This file contains all the site's settings (crazy, huh?). Let's open it up and setup our page.

    Find Settings

  5. Although the settings file offers many options, it defaults to sane values. We'll just go over the items that are required. Those include your database connection information. You'll need to know your database username, database password, actual database in which the data will be stored and the database server.

    Configure Settings

  6. For absolute links, you will need to enter your Website address. Remeber that the trailing slash should NOT be included.

    The domain of site is the domain that will be used on outgoing emails from the system (during user registration and email notifications). It should generally be similar to the site address (minus the http:// prefix).

    Feel free to poke around the remaining options in the setup.php. If you're unsure about a particular option, you should probably leave it set to default.

    Configure Settings

  7. Once you are done editing your site files, you're ready to upload them to your server. Simply upload the whole package to the desired location.

    NOTE: The location you upload the files must match the path specified in settings.php

    Upload the site files

  8. Alright - double check anything you may be worried about, because we're ready to roll! Head to the URL specified in your settings.php (the root of your page) and add on "setup". If your site is at http://www.bevey.com, you'd enter http://www.bevey.com/setup.php into your browser.

    If all goes well, you will not see any errors or notices. If you do, you may have entered information in improperly.

    Run Setup

  9. Since our setup went without a hitch, we can go ahead and delete the setup.php file.

    Delete Setup

  10. We're done! You've made it through. Head to the main page (as defined in your settings.php file) and check out your new page. You may also log in using the login information that you had defined in your setup.php.

    Check your site