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Installation & Set Up

Installing Mura couldn't be easier. Follow the directions below and you'll be up and running in minutes.

1. Create a database named "muradb" or whatever you prefer.
2. Put the contents of "mura[version]\www" directory into your webroot (the directory where your site will live). This includes the following directories and files: admin, config, default, fckeditor, requirements, tasks, Application.cfc, contentServer.cfm, index.cfm.
3. Create a Datasource (DSN) named "muradb" (or whatever) connecting to the database (muradb) you created in the step above.
4. Browse to the url where your Mura site is installed and complete the form using the information created above.
5. Once you've successfully set up Mura, click the "Finish Set Up and Take Me to the Mura Admin" button. Keep in mind that once you do this, the Mura Set Up page will no longer be available (for security reasons). If you need to change any settings in the future, they will need to be made directly in  the "/config/settings.ini.cfm" file.
6. Login to the Mura admin using the default username of "admin" and default password of "admin". It is highly recommended you change this immediately by editing your profile upon login.
7. Select "Edit Current Site" under the "Site Settings" menu located in the top right hand area of your window and enter the URL for your install.
8. If you would like to send scheduled emails or have scheduled content publishing when caching is turned on (caching is highly recommended for increased performance) you must change the "Ping" attribute in the \config\setting.ini.cfm to 1. On start up, Mura will attempt to create a scheduled task to check for event reminders, scheduled emails and to flush its cache for scheduled content. Note that enabling this scheduled task may cause performance problems in some shared hosting environments.
9. You're done installing Mura. Enjoy!

If your Web Server/Servlet Container does not support the extension of urls to include query parameters after index.cfm (i.e. http://www.goMura.com/Mura/products/index.cfm/widgets), or you simply prefer shorter URLs without index.cfm, you will need to configure your webserver for URL rewrites using apache mod_rewrite or isapi-rewrite or a free option to isapi-rewrite. Jamie Krug has a good blog that talks about how to do it with mod_rewrite.

Troubleshooting

If you have any questions regarding installation, please visit our Support Forum or contact us for paid support.