gitgeorge / lamu

Ushahidi 3

System Requirements

To install the platform on your computer/server, the target system must meet the following requirements:

• PHP version 5.3.0 or greater
• Database Server
  • MySQL version 5.5 or greater
  • PostgreSQL support is coming
• An HTTP Server. Ushahidi is known to work with the following web servers:
  • Apache 2.2+
  • nginx
• Unicode support in the operating system

Installing

1. Create a database

2. Copy application/config/database.template to application/config/database.php

3. Edit application/config/database.php and set database, username and password params

   return array
   (
   	'default' => array
   	(
   		'type'       => 'mysql',
   		'connection' => array(
   			'hostname'   => 'localhost',
   			'database'   => 'lamu',
   			'username'   => 'lamu',
   			'password'   => 'lamu',
   			'persistent' => FALSE,
   		),
   		'table_prefix' => '',
   		'charset'      => 'utf8',
   		'caching'      => TRUE,
   		'profiling'    => TRUE,
   	)
   );
   

4. Install the database schema using migrations

./minion --task=migrations:run --up --group=3-0