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I am a beginner to Geeklog and programming. Please can someone help me!! In the documentation it says to open index.php and follow the instructions. When I open it comes up with a load of PHP and comments. Is this supposed to happen??? Pleeeease help me!!!

Err, where does it say that?

The INSTALL file tells you to refer to doc/index.html (and docs/install.html).

The documentation is in the docs directory or you can read it online here.

bye, Dirk

In INSTALL.HTML (the documentation) it specificly says Open your browser and navigate to http://yourgeeklogsite/admin/install/install.php and follow the directions! Thi comes up with a load of PHP and comments. What exactly am I meant to do with this?

Do you even have PHP on your webspace? Or local computer? Where are you installing this? bye, Dirk

Yes I do have PHP installed on my computer. I am installing geeklog in my c:/www/geeklog directory

Are you sure you've installed PHP properly? Can you run other, simple PHP scripts? Try http://127.0.0.1/path/to/geeklog/admin/install/install.php (replacing "path/to/geeklog" with the proper path on your system). DON'T use a URL that begins with "file://" - the PHP files must be processed by your webserver, thus the http:// ... bye, Dirk

The path is c://www/geeklog/ What URL should I put in?? Thanks

That would be http://127.0.0.1/geeklog/admin/install/install.php then, I guess. I'd suggest you also make yourself familiar with how your webserver works, e.g. how paths relate to URLs. bye, Dirk

It says Page cannot be found, although other PHP scripts i have work.

As I said, it was only a guess - and it seems my guess was wrong. If you've already managed to execute other PHP scripts, you should be able to figure out how the path on your hard drive relates to the URL you have to type into your browser. If you still can't figure it out, come on over into IRC (irc.freenode.net, channel #geeklog) and someone there may be able and willing to walk you through it. To set up (and use) Geeklog you should at least have some basic knowledge about how a webserver works. It's not hard to learn (and not much either), but it isn't really something that you will be taught by the Geeklog documentation or from this website ... bye, Dirk

There isn't anything on irc.freenode.net