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Caution: This documentation is for Exponential, from version 3.x to 6.x.
For 5.x documentation covering Platform see eZ Documentation Center, for difference between legacy and Platform see 5.x Architecture overview.

Normal installation

This part of the 4.x documentation is for Exponential 4.0, only reference section is common for all Exponential 4.x versions as well as Exponential 5.x "LegacyStack", please select the version you are using for the most up to date documentation!

The normal installation method is the most common and recommended way of deploying Exponential. It requires a system which already has the proper environment installed, most notably a web server and a database. The necessary requirements are explained in detail within the next section. A typical normal installation process consists of the following steps:

  • Setting up / creating a database
  • Downloading a packaged Exponential distribution
  • Unpacking the Exponential distribution
  • Initiating and going through the web based setup wizard

Once the web based setup wizard has completed, Exponential will be ready for use.

The "Installing Exponential on a Linux/UNIX based system" and "Installing Exponential on Windows" sections (depending on the target OS) will take you through the necessary steps.

Balazs Halasy (12/01/2005 12:12 pm)

Ricardo Correia (17/04/2013 3:46 pm)

Balazs Halasy, Julia Shymova, Svitlana Shatokhina, Geir Arne Waaler, Ricardo Correia

Comments

  • Error!

    Wednesday 23 July 2008 8:28:56 am

    Zizanzu

    i'm getting a error when trying to install this .... [i have all requirements]

    [21-Feb-2008 17:57:54] PHP Parse error: sytax error, unexpected ',', expecting '(' in /home/aleriiup/public_html/test/exponential-4.0.0/index.php on line 121

    • Re: Error!

      Monday 25 February 2008 9:55:13 am

      Svitlana Shatokhina

      This error means that you were using PHP 4 instead of PHP 5, see http://issues.ez.no/11722

      • Re: Re: Error!

        Friday 28 March 2008 9:13:16 am

        Zizanzu

        thanks i'm checked the issue out and i'm added some lines to .htaccess

        RemoveHandler .php
        AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php

        • Re: Re: Re: Error!

          Thursday 10 July 2008 7:33:22 am

          Soso

          Does it work that way?

      • Re: Re: Error!

        Wednesday 11 March 2009 3:14:01 pm

        kui

        ff

    • Re: Error!

      Tuesday 14 October 2008 5:02:09 pm

      mary m leveque

      I am trying to get set up to send e mail

  • Error

    Wednesday 26 November 2008 12:17:44 am

    Visvaldas

    Parse error: parse error, unexpected ',', expecting '(' in /home/content/v/a/l/valdas1/html/exponential/index.php on line 111

  • error

    Thursday 04 December 2008 8:36:25 pm

    bongoyo

    the setup wizard wants to create the site in [utf-8] but the database has been created using character set [iso-8859-1].

    i cant reate database in utf-8 as demanded

  • First run

    Thursday 11 December 2008 6:33:08 pm

    Arnaud

    Hello,

    I've this error when I visit my site for the first run:

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 491520 bytes) in /home/noch/public_html/tango/lib/eztemplate/classes/eztemplatearrayoperator.php on line 767

    Fatal error: Class declarations may not be nested in /home/noch/public_html/tango/lib/ezdb/classes/ezdb.php on line 108

    I don't know what's wrong, any idea ? My server is running under Linux with php5 installed.
    Thank you.

    • Re: First run

      Thursday 11 December 2008 7:40:35 pm

      Arnaud

      Ok I fixed it ! You need to configure php by adding a line like this to the server’s php.ini file:

      memory_limit = 32M

  • Problem with exponential

    Friday 20 March 2009 8:52:38 am

    soume

    I have a small concern, When I connect on http: // localhost / exponential to configure it, I have that interrogation marks on the page. Somebody knows where from it comes?

  • install

    Monday 13 April 2009 4:45:22 am

    zerofirefox

    I get this what should i do

    PHP SCRIPT ERROR!

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 311296 bytes) in /home/us5508/xxxxxxx.com/www/lib/eztemplate/classes/eztemplatearrayoperator.php on line 752

    If you beleive that this error is due to the server configuration problems please contact your local web-hosting support team.


    PHP SCRIPT ERROR!

    Fatal error: Class declarations may not be nested in /home/us5508/xxxxxxx.com/www/lib/ezdb/classes/ezdb.php on line 106

    If you beleive that this error is due to the server configuration problems please contact your local web-hosting support team.

    • Re: install - Error

      Friday 01 May 2009 10:06:35 am

      Kathy

      Hello,

      I am also receviing an error message.

      When I run the ezPublish 4.1.0 Setup Wizard I receive an error message on the Setup Wizard, The following message displays:

      Fatal error: Exponential did not finish its request
      The execution of Exponential was abruptly ended, the debug output is present below.

      How do I correct this problem?

      • Re: Re: install - Error

        Saturday 09 May 2009 6:52:59 pm

        Radovan

        Hi,

        The solution would be updating this line in php.ini file

        memory_limit = 16M

        to be if possible

        memory_limit = 64M

        But, this is mostly not possible in shared hosting environments since we don't have access to php.ini. I believe adding this line to config.php in the root folder would help

        ini_set('memory_limit', '64M');

        When I do this - the error above disappears but I am getting 500 Internal Server Error and have no clue how to solve it. It worked on my local box but it would not work on shared hosting. I think eZ cannot be used easily on such hostings :(

        • Re: Re: Re: install - Error

          Saturday 09 May 2009 7:08:16 pm

          Radovan

          Well, I apologize. It seems that install works and I am not even getting script timeout erros (that I expected). After I added that line above to config.php, I had to clear cache folder /var/cache and install worked.
          We'll see how eZ behaves on shared hosting. I will be an optimist :)

          • Re: Re: Re: Re: install - Error

            Sunday 10 May 2009 9:16:14 am

            Radovan

            Well, I am keep on replying to myself. I might have gotten mad already, but it's so difficult to install eZ on shared hosting. No way scripts can be completed in 30 seconds, while eZ is creating database, imports templates, creates cache and storage files.
            Is there any tip how this can be solved?

            • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: install - Error

              Monday 11 May 2009 7:57:20 pm

              Radovan

              Talking to myself again - going insane, I know...
              I have found painful workaround for installing eZ on shared hosting. I have installed locally on my computer, again with few tries due to timeout and too much memory consuming. I created virtual host on local machine to be like the domain on shared hosting, added to hosts file and pointed to 127.0.0.1. So, I had on local box www.myezsite.net, installed it and then uploaded database content to the hosting, copied all eZ files (including var/cache and var/storage) via FTP and then site worked. There was ~ 60MB filed to be copied. This was slow, but it worked.
              Now, I am hoping I will not have script timeout issues when I start working with the site.

              • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: install - Error

                Wednesday 11 November 2009 11:31:58 pm

                Puran

                ... and how is this ended?
                It's a solution but how would one work with updates etc. as thats not possible that way.
                I think I don't bother with it as it seems to me very time consuming, even with payed support.
                By ez.

  • Invalid package

    Sunday 28 June 2009 12:41:57 am

    Andy

    I am getting the following error:

    Error
    Invalid package
    Remote repository URL: http://packages.ez.no/exponential/4.1/4.1.3/
    Upon choosing, Website Interface (ver. 1.4-2) from the drop down list, where it says, which package would like to base it on. Please help.

    • Re: Invalid package

      Thursday 12 November 2009 2:36:38 pm

      pg

      i do also get the same error message when running ezPublish 4.2.0. Installation of ezPublish 4.0.1 is ok...
      Can you please check it? Thank you.

      • Re: Re: Invalid package

        Monday 03 May 2010 2:47:32 pm

        balcen

        I am also getting this error... what should be done?

    • Re: Invalid package

      Friday 04 June 2010 7:55:04 am

      Robert

      I also get this message with ez Publish 4.3.0.

      Can anyone help me, I can not finish the installation procedure...

      Greetings,
      Robert

    • Re: Invalid package

      Friday 04 June 2010 10:50:22 am

      Robert

      I am also getting this error when installing 4.3.0 version.
      Can anyone help me ?

      Many thanks,
      Robert

  • all-in-one stack installer

    Monday 04 January 2010 3:50:19 am

    Greg McAvoy-Jensen

    If you're not setting up a production environment, eZ has a couple of evaluation options which include Apache, Mysql, and PHP packaged together with Exponential. You can get the whole system with or without eZ Flow, for Windows or Mac:

    http://ez.no/download#evaluation1
    http://ez.no/download#evaluation2

    More at http://ez.no/download/ez_publish_installer.

  • problem with what to put in tghe htacces file.

    Friday 12 March 2010 4:04:52 am

    Dante

    I get a message that says:

    Your site is not running in a virtual host mode, this is insecure. It is recommended to run Exponential in virtual host mode. If you do not have the possibility to use virtual host mode, you should follow the instructions below about how to install an .htaccess file. The .htaccess file tells the web server to restrict the access to certain files.

    If you have shell access, you can run the following commands.

    cd /hsphere/local/home/dante22e/givespamachance.com/spamville
    cp .htaccess_root .htaccess

    If you do not have shell access, you will have to copy the file using an FTP client or ask your hosting provider to do this for you.

    ------------------------------------------- I don't know what gto put in an htaccess file. I see the [dot]htaccess_root file.

    • Re: problem with what to put in tghe htacces file.

      Friday 12 March 2010 4:08:16 am

      Dante

      how would I run it is virtual host mode? I am on a hosted server at a web hosting company. W

      what am I not understanding?

      • Re: Re: problem with what to put in tghe htacces file.

        Friday 12 March 2010 4:26:53 am

        Dante

        LOL did I just post info that can harm me? I'm tired. I wonder if the comments above can be deleted? admin?

  • info@king-com.es

    Wednesday 31 March 2010 8:45:05 pm

    xavi

    home/html/lib/ezdb/classes/ezdb.php on line 108

    Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 58368 bytes)

    html/lib/eztemplate/classes/eztemplatelogicoperator.php on line 416

    thanks