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Installation
There are 3 ways to set up BlastPad. You can either have it hosted on BlastPad.co, hosted on your local computer or hosted on your own server.
- Go to http://blastpad.co.
- Sign up for an account (not live yet, still in closed beta).
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Setup PHP on your local computer if you don't already have it.
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If you don't have PHP set up on your local computer, the easiest way to get setup is by downloading and installing XAMPP from https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html .
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Download the BlastPad code.
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Click the button that says "Download ZIP".
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Unzip your code and place it in your htdocs folder. If you are using XAMPP, it's usually something like c://xampp/htdocs/.
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Run your XAMPP control panel to start Apache and mySQL.
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Then go to your browser and type http://localhost/blastpad where blastpad is the name of the folder you unzipped to.
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Create a new database on your server.
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Import the file "database.sql" from the directory "blastpad_source\0.1.0\sql" (where 0.1.0 is your BlastPad version) into your database.
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Follow the instructions below on "How to Customize".
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Download the code.
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Click the button that says "Download ZIP".
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Unzip the file to your desktop.
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Upload the files to your server.
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Create a new database on your server.
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If using mySQL, use "utf8mb4_unicode_ci" as collation.
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Import the file "database.sql" from the directory "blastpad_source\0.1.0\sql" (where 0.1.0 is your BlastPad version) into your database.
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Follow the instructions below on "How to Customize".
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Go to the "blastpad_custom\config\production" directory. Copy the file "database.php.sample" and rename it to "database.php".
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Open the file named "database.php" with a text editor such as Notepad.
Add your database login information.$blastpad[ "config" ][ "database_connection" ] = [ "username" => "putusernamehere", // Enter your database username here. "password" => "putpasswordhere", // Enter your database password here. "database" => "putdatabasenamehere", // Enter your database name here. ];
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The main HTML and CSS files are in the "blastpad_public\asset\blueprint" folder.
This wiki is a work in progress and might not be complete.
We are always looking for contributors who can help with the documentation. To start contributing, just click the "Edit" button and start editing.
For more information, please see the Documentation Guide.