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Step 6 Creating database and config file

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Open anchor to this point in the page Database Creation

At this point your database tables and sample content will be created, if you previously have selected this.

You will see several lines like:

Creating additional_users table... [done]
Creating admin_bookmarks table... [done]
Creating index in admin_bookmarks table... [done]
Creating adminlog table... [done]
Creating admin_recent_pages table... [done]
Creating content table... [done]
Etc.

Success!

Open anchor to this point in the page Config settings

Now let's continue to setup your configuration file, we already have most of the information we need. Chances are you can leave all these values alone, so when you are ready, click Continue.

CMS Document root

as seen from the webserver

Path to the Document root

.

Query string

leave this alone unless you have trouble, then edit config.php by hand

Default language for the frontend

This adjusts the locale used for various default date handling functions, etc.

Encoding

In almost all cases, default_encoding should be utf-8.