Use XAMPP easy to build station (next)

XAMPP contains software that basically includes the need to build a website. This will be a variety of software and management tools packaged in the form of release, on the one hand, can save users everywhere to find, dispersed installation problems, on the other hand, the stability of the system, compatibility also provides a reliable guarantee. The next job is to build a website.

Along with equality, interactive, people-centered web 2.0 of the rise of the Web site model, the operating mechanism has undergone a great change to RSS, blog, etc. as the representative of the new application more and more popular, these applications into the Web site, should be the beginning of our building to consider the problem.

In addition, but also to consider security, cost, scalability and many other factors, so after a lot of access to data, repeated installation comparison, the author here chose the Linux platform based on the PHP open source System Mambo (Mambo), discu! , respectively, as the Content Management system and forum system of the website, the operation Environment chooses is XAMPP 1.5.1.

Content Management System--mambo

Mambo is an open source content management System (CMS) developed in PHP. has been awarded the 2004 Best Linux Open Source System award. Through the use of a period of time, I feel that it has the following characteristics:

1. Easy to install, easy to manage, open source free, high reliability;

2. The interface layout is reasonable, the style is generous, can make the beautiful website easily by modifying the template version;

3. Flexible function extension mechanism to facilitate third party development and use of plug-ins;

4. Have a professional organization for Chinese, the new version of Chinese support is very timely.

Software downloads

Mambo in China and technical support by Mambo China (Http://www.mambochina.net) is responsible for their Chinese work is very timely, Mambo 4.5.3 English version less than one months, the completion of the Chinese work.

The latest version of the Mambo 4.5.3h Global version, which is based on mambo4.5.3h English version, enhanced the processing of language encoding, the implementation of Simplified Chinese gb2312/utf-8, Traditional Chinese big5/utf-8, English iso-8859-1/utf-8 coding integration, It involves the installation of Mambo, the front desk and the backstage language processing comprehensively.

Unzip upload

Unzip the downloaded file Mambov4.5.3h_global.zip and upload it to the server's/opt/lampp/htdocs directory in binary form.

New Database

Using the MySQL administration tool phpmy-admin, create a new empty database, where the name is mambo (see Figure 7).

Figure 7 Creating a new database with phpMyAdmin