Installation

How to Install BlastPad

Prerequisites

• A web server with PHP and a database.

Supported databases

BlastPad is database-agnostic. Supported database servers include:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• SQLite
• CUBRID
• MS SQL Server
• Firebird
• IBM
• Informix
• Oracle
• ODBC and DB2
• 4D

Installation

There are 3 ways to set up BlastPad. You can either have it hosted on BlastPad, hosted on your local computer or hosted on your own server.

Hosted on BlastPad.

• Go to http://blastpad.co.
• Sign up for an account.

Hosted on your local computer.

• Setup PHP on your local computer if you don't already have it.

• 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 .

• Download the code.

• Go to http://blastpad.github.io/BlastPad/

• Click the button that says "Download ZIP".

• Then unzip your code and put it in Xampp's htdocs folder, it's usually something like c://xampp/htdocs/blastpad.

• Run your XAMPP control panel to start Apache and mySQL.

• Then go to your browser and type http://localhost/blastpad

• Create a new database on your server.

• Import the file "database.sql" from the directory "script/sql" into your database.

• Follow the instructions below on "How to Customize".

Hosted on your own server.

• Download the code.

• Go to http://blastpad.github.io/BlastPad/

• Click the button that says "Download ZIP".

• Unzip the file to your desktop.

• Upload the files to your server.

• Create a new database on your server.

• Import the file "database.sql" from the directory "script/sql" into your database.

• Follow the instructions below on "How to Customize".

How to Customize

• Open the file named "config.php" from the "custom" directory with a text editor such as Notepad.
  Add your database login information.

   	"server" 			=> "localhost",
   	"database" 			=> "putdatabasenamehere",
   	"username" 			=> "putusernamehere",
   	"password" 			=> "putpasswordhere",
  

• Open the file named "customize.php" from the "custom" directory with a text editor such as Notepad. Replace the strings with your own text.

   // The title of your website or company.
   $title = "BlastPad";
  
   // The subheading.
   $tagline = "A bold new way to launch your website.";
  
   // Your Google Analytics tracking code (enter just your account number which typically starts with UA-
   $google_analytics_code = "UA-0000000-00";