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Installing Adaptive Client Manager

[AUTO INSTALLATION] | [HELP] | [MANUAL INSTALLATION]

Manual Installation

If you have followed the Auto Installation instructions and you are receiving error messages, then tyou may want to try installing ACM manually.

As part of your web host admin/database area, you will typically have access to the database through an admin panel or software. By far the most popular of these is phpMyAdmin, but all tend to work in a very similar way. Visit your web host, find this and log in to that database.

What we need to do is create all the neccessary tables in your database. Typically, this can be run as an import script - which we have created for you. It can be found in the files that you downloaded here:

adaptivecm/app/webroot/adaptivecm_setup.sql

As it's the most popular, we'll use phpMyAdmin as an example of how to import this file.

If you look at the screenshot above, you'll see that we have:

  1. Opened the 'Import' tab at the top
  2. In the 'File To Import' section, click the 'Browse' button and select the 'adaptivecm_setup.sql' file that we mentioned earlier
  3. Click the 'Go' button in the blue bar at the bottom

Once completed, you should receive a message that looks something like this:

Once done, press the 'Save & Test Connection'. ACM will attempt to connect to your database using those settings and, if successfull, we'll also try and install the database for you. If it installs successfully, you'll see a confirmation message that states 'The Installation Was Successfull'. If this happens, you can proceed to Step 3.

You should now be able to log in to ACM using the default login details, which are as follows:

Username: admin

Password: password

For security reasons, and to prevent the database from being overwritten, you will want to disable the /setup area of your installation. This is normally taken care of during Auto Installation, however, as we're doing it manually here, we'll need to take care of this step manually too.

You need to open up the following file from your online installation in any text editor:

app/webroot/inc/config.php

It should look like this:

define("SETUP_DISABLED","NO");

Change it to:

define("SETUP_DISABLED","YES");

Ensure that YES is entered in uppercase and enclosed within double quotation marks (" ")

Go back to the setup page (refresh if needed) and you should now see an error message that running setup has been disabled.