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SiteGround TutorialseZ Publish Tutorial
eZ Publish is a professional open source CMS tool for web publishing, intranets and e-commercewebsites. It is written in PHP and requires one mySQL database. eZ Publish is functional and easy-to-work-with. It is a very good choice for a Content management software.
eZ Publish Tutorial covers the following topics:
How to install eZ Publish CMSon your website;How to customize your website with neweZ Publish themes;How to set yourlogoon the header of your web page;How to addarticles in eZ Publish;How to installeZ Publish packagesand enhance your CMS capabilities.SiteGround has long experience in providing web space eZ Publish CMS websites. We are ezPublishreference company. OureZ Publish hostingservice is the best choice for you for it offers the richest setof features, CMS-expertized support team and lots of FREE tools.
eZ Publish Installation
Before we start the installation you should check if the server that hosts your account meets all the eZPublish system requirements. Siteground provides you with the best server solution for hosting eZPublish based website. However, note that eZ Publish versions prior to version 4 do not work with PHP 5,while releases version 4.0 and above can work only using PHP 5.1 or newer. You can check our article for more informationhow to change PHP versionsfor your account. Additionally ezPublish version 4 and above require the date.timezone option to be defined in php.iniinstead of using the server timezone. This can be accomplished followingHow to change the date /timezone value article.Finally making changes in the local php.ini file might affect your web site functionality if you are usingIoncube loader for it. You can check theHow to change the value of a PHP setting articlefor moreinformation how to enable it.Once this is done you can proceed with the installation.Step 1: MySQL database set: In this tutorial we will use the web base installer that eZ Publishprovide. But before we run it, you will need to create a MySQL database and user for your application.Please, check our MySQL tutorial, to seehow to create MySQL database and userand how to link themtogether.One final database step has to be done. The Ez Publish installation requires the database to be createdusing character set utf-8, but the cPanel creates them using iso-8859-1. You have to change thismanually by using the phpMyAdmin tool in your cPanel. You can find it on bottom of the MySQLDatabases page in your cPanel. Click on the phpMyAdmin blue link.The tool will load in a new page. Choose the eZ Publish database from the list menu on the right side of the page. Then click on the Operations tab on the main phpMyAdmin page. At the bottom you will seethe Collation category. Use the list menu and select utf8_general_ci option. Click the Go button. If noerrors appear, you have successfully changed the database character set to utf-8 and you can nowproceed with the installation.Step 2: Web based installation:First you have to download the ez Publish package form theez Publish official website. Download thelatest stable version tarbal:ezpublish-*.*.*-gpl.tar.gz,then extract it on your machine and upload all files to your account. The best way to upload them is viaanFTP client software.Now you probably ask yourself where exactly to upload the files. If you wish the website to be visible at:http://yourdomain.comthe files should be uploaded to the documents root folder - public_html. In this folder reside all the filesvisible on the net from your domain.
Note that files outside the public_html folder can not be accessed via the domain.If you already have a working website there, you have to upload the files to a subfolder. For instance - public_html/ez/, so the website will be visible at:
 
http://yourdomain.com/ez/ At this point if you are performing an ezPublish version 4 or above installation follow the instructions forsetting the date.timezone option.Now that you have uploaded the files, you have to start the web based eZ Publish installer, which is quitefriendly and easy to use. In order to do so, please open your browser and write down the following URL:
http://yourdomain.com/path_to_the_ez_folder/ 
 You will see the Welcome page of the Ez Publish installation:Click on
Next
.On the next step you have to choose which email sending method to use - the Sendmail to send theemail directly through the MTA on the server or to use the SMTP email outgoing server:Both work flawlessly. However, if you choose to use the SMTP server, you will have to fill the fieldsrequired for the SMTP authentication. First you have to create a valid email account through your cPanel.Once you do this, type its details in the fields on the installation page. Note that the server name has tobe your full domain name and the username has to be the full email account name (for example -ez@yourdomain.com).In this tutorial we are going to choose Sendmail for our outgoing emails. Click on
Next
.Now you have to choose what type of database your website should use. You can select each of theMySQL or MySQL Improved radio buttons and click on
Next
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On the next page you have to write down the database details. Server name should remain localhost. Inthe username and password fields type the user details associated to the database that will be used forthe eZ Publish page. The default database port is 3306.Leave the socket field empty and once you are ready click on
Next
.Follows the language setup page. Please use the radio buttons to choose the default language for yourwebsite and select the check box for each additional language you wish to add to the site. Leave theEnable Unicode setup check box selected. Click on
Next
.On the next page you can choose one of the pre-configured site types the installation comes with.
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noxiousobstruct

Thanks. Great tutorial mate... Here's the Video Tutorial: http://bit.ly/cXQPGN - If you prefer video like myself. Don't get me wrong, I still like ur tutorial!

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