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XOOPS is an extensible, OO (Object Oriented), easy to use dynamic web content management system written in PHP. XOOPS is the ideal tool for developing small to large dynamic community websites, intra company portals, corporate portals, weblogs and much more.

Main Website: http://www.xoops.org/

Demo Website: http://opensourcecms.com/….

Support Forums: http://www.xoops.org/modules/newbb/

Installation

Step1: Go to the xoops download center and get the latest version.

Step2: Upload the files from the html folder on your web server using a FTP client (e.g. SmartFTP)

Step3: The following folders and files must be writable:

uploads/
cache/
templates_c/
mainfile.php

Step4: Create a fresh new database name.

Step5: Go to yoursite.com to begin the installation.

Step6: Select your language and click Next. A introduction page will appear. Read it and click next.

Step7: If you didn’t make the files and folders from Step 3 writable you should do it now. If you did it already, just click Next.

Step8: Enter your database details and clickNext.

Step9: Confirm the following data by clicking Next.

Step10: Now Xoops is saving the configuration data. It should look like this. Click next.

Step11: A number of confirmation pages will apear. If everything is OK just click next.

Step12: Now you have to create a admin user. After that click next.

Step13:

User Menu Created Successfully
Login Created Successfully
Main Menu Created Successfully
Click next.

Step14: Make sure both Private Messaging and Extended Profiles are checked. Then click next.

Step15: “Module Extended Profiles installed successfully.” Click next and that’s it!

Congratulations. You’ve successfully installed Xoops on your website. Go to yoursite.com/user.php, log in and start using xoops.