Installing Akelos on Windows

Install Akelos on Windows with a example.

I'm assuming that there's an Apache 2 installed and a PHP 5 in the machine.

First download akelos framework
http://www.akelos.org/download

Then extract it, for example, to
c:\akelos_framework
then execute go to c:\akelos_framework and execute
php script/setup -d c:\httpdocs\booklink

(I'm assuming that c:\httpdocs is your Apache DocumentRoot)

Now create the database:
mysql -u root -p
Enter password: ******
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 2
Server version: 5.0.41-community-nt MySQL Community Edition (GPL)

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> CREATE DATABASE booklink;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> CREATE DATABASE booklink_dev;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec)

mysql> CREATE DATABASE booklink_tests;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL ON booklink.* TO cassio@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "pass";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.09 sec)

mysql>
mysql> GRANT ALL ON booklink_dev.* TO cassio@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "pass";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql>
mysql> GRANT ALL ON booklink_tests.* TO cassio@localhost IDENTIFIED BY "pass";
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql>
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> exit;
Bye

Open in the browser:
http://127.0.0.1/booklink/public/

should display :


Welcome aboard
You’re using The Akelos Framework!
Getting started

1.
Configure your environment

Run a step by step wizard for creating a configuration file or read README.txt instead.

Start the configuration wizard


Configure your database according to the DB you've created previously.

Configure your language (in my case for example: pt,pt_PT)

Then go to command line, to the c:\httpdocs\booklink directory and run

php script/generate scaffold Book

which will tell you that some files where created.

Now... magic: just go to http://127.0.0.1/booklink/book and start playing with your application!!!

I will be posting the next round in a short time: how to create your own application